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Tar unusual lateness of the season, and the dearness of recta and fodder, combine with the low price of grain to form a conjuncture of cir cumstances exceedingly trying to the agricultural mind and spirits. The crisis is, indeed, precisely one which would formerly have been supposed certain to drive them into revolt against the free admission of foreign grain. Wheat is now selling very low, while all other produce is excessively high ; if we were still under the old system, ' wheat, which is selling at from 455. to 48a., would fetch from 60e. to 70s. ; yet we hoer no outcries of distress from the farmers. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe they see the advantage of free trade. This is a fact so encouraging in regard to the restrictions on our commerce which still reins'", and so important at a moment when the French Treaty has brought up, on one or the other side of the Channel, the old ideas and argu ments and feelings about free trade, that it de serves distinct notice and emphatic attention. If at such a moment as the present English farmers accept a natural system of commerce as beet, though it brings them low prices for their wheat instead of high, we may fairly hope that in less than twenty years time, French and English ma nufacturers, French logicians, and even English shipowners, may have grown no less wise than our fanners, and may acknowledge their blessings no lead rvidily. The season is, indeed, a crucial one for the free-trade theory ; and it is interesting to others than agriculturists to hear what it is that satisfies the cultivators of the soil with a change under which their wheat sells so low. Gathering in all directions the information which sufferers enjoy giving, we find that wheat is looking badly every where ; that in many places it has perished en tirely through alternate thawing and freezing, while much that is still alive is so poor that it is a question whether it ought not to be ploughed up. In the wet clay districts at least a third of the land has not been sown at all. Where the plant holds its ground best it has not fulfilled the popular March test of "hiding a hare," being barely able to " hide a mouse." The barley and oat sowing has been later than in any spring within the experience of our generation. We read of Scotch farmers coming down to Liverpool, and Cumberland fanners travelling south, and Midland fanners running to the porta, to buy up hay, or anything they could get, to feed their stock. We read of 2,000 sheep on one farm with only four days feed in hand or in prospect. We read of hay at 10i. atom, and straw at 9d, a stone in March, and of a crowd of farmers who would be thankful to get either at any price in April. We are warned of prices beyond all precedent for lamb this season, and even for beef and mutton. Pigs are sold from the sow at 255. which were 10s. or 12s. in former years. These prima will do the farmer and grazier no good, for no pnce that the public will pay can compensate for the cost of food during a winter of six months, pre ceded by &seism extremely unfavourable for fodder. At the same time the wheat of last year disap points expectation, coming out in the thrashing very deficient. Inferior barley is dear, while good malting barley is very scarce. The inferior barley and oats are dear because they have been in demand to supply the deficiency of hay. It is the unusual amount of the reserve of the wheat cony of 1858 which keeps down the price for the public, preventing the farmers from getting a high price for their wheat while paying excessively dear for all the produce they have to buy. Even in such a position as this they see the wisdom of free trade. How does this come to peas? The reason is that they have learned, and are still learning, an economy so much better than the old methods that the ghosts of their fathers would call farmiug a new art. They are how satisfied that a sufficient supply of wheat may always be reckoned on from one part or another of the world ; and they, therefore, feel themselves net free from any obligation to grow wheat against the grain. If we see in many directions high farming applied to poor soils which the Corn-laws called int, cultivation—an expensive tillage by which alone such soils can be made to answer—we see in more instalices that change of gram which the men of the League foretold before 1846. Farmers in some of our wheat-growing districts are ridding themselves of the idea that they must depend on their wheat crops for their rent. Be lieving that there is no prospect of a steady high price of wheat, they resolve to grow more barley, more food for stock, more of anything that nature and the wants of society indicate. At thee hearsame time, with the e x t ens i on o f barley-growing, we of an organised resistance on the part of the Agri eu kunst' to the malt duty ; and, as such orgenisations against an unpopular duty always suoceed, if the ny.t..rs have paticnce citirigh, we shall in course a ry T K • of tints see beer cheaper, —''.--- r e 'I when free trade extends = sale• . 61 Meantime, there Mat an supply of various elements of 'food "less important than the corn we get from abroad, and supernally butchers' meat. We shall witness each Ashincrease of mutton (and wool of course) as litre(' e YooNo himself 'would not have believed; and beef and veal, butter and Assn, will augment in proportion. Already we see the operation f free trade ideas on the gr ow th, o f grass itself. t a admitted now that, genesally speaking, the profitable use of grace is to cut it fresh for farrn yard diet ; and that the least profitable use is to make hay of ft ; grazing being an intermediate course between the two. This experience has been gained just while it was discovered in the United States that the hay crop atone of the free states exceeds in annual value the entire production of the slave states, including cotton, sugar, tobacco, and everything that is grown and sold. The thankfutness for free trade at this moment is largely occasioned by the increasing supply of foreign and artificial food for stock, and of manures by which production at home can be forced. Instead of thinking it a simple misfor tune when flocks and herds are 'tarred to death, or brought so low as to be doomed to dysentery with the first spring feeding, we now mark such destruc tion se an evidence of want of skill or capital, seeing that sound management has kept up the condition of stock by means of resources provided by com merce. The purchases may be expensive, but not so courtly as buying the stock after they have eaten op everything. As soon as it is apprehended that ear turnips are failing, like the potatoes, there are 'Nap of new and various crops which may more ar Isis fill up the gap in came of a turnip rot. The story of the feeding of our sheep this titer, and especially of the rearing of our lambs mass didivaltiea, would be an instructive lawn to anybody in any country who dreads dearth from the supercemion of any artificial system of production of articles in general demand. Throughout the worst weeks of the worst season we always see farmers employing their best ener gies to get renewals of their leases, or the promise of new farms. They can turn their occupation to account in many ways that their fathers never dreamed of. By applying different soils to their natural uses, or enriching them above the limit of variations ; by producing what is possible, whoa they cannot obtain what is hest ; by seeking tram' abroad whatever is needed to create profit at bow., and by referring society to growers abroad ter what they cannot raise profitably at home, farmers are learning to achieve prosperity as mer chants achieve it, by the very principle of their calling. They may be perversely called a shop. keeping part of the sordid British nation for this exertion of their faculties ; but they need not mind this, any more than the old merchant princes of Venice and Genoa would have regarded it. They are giving us more and more meat and vegetables, while we get quite as much corn as ever ; and it is honourable at once to their can dour and their sagacity that they owe, and admit that they owe, their prosperity and their power to withstand adversity to Free Trade. et* Court. The Queen, accompanied by the Prinoewe Alice and Prince Arthur, and attended by the Flom Beatrice Byng, took a drive in a carriage and four on Tuesday after noon. The Equerries in Waiting attended on h orse b ac k. _ . . _ n• Earl of Elgin had an audience of her Majesty ;es. terasr at Buckingham Palace. _ . Thin Prime Oensort rode on horseback yeiderday morning, attended by Ospinki Da Plat. The Fringe if Wales, attended by Major• General the Hon. R. Bruce and Captain Grey, arrived at ilii2kingliam Meer at half past 10 o'clock on Tuesday night from the Centime The Doke de Montpensier visited kis royal highness yanerday. The Queen. accompanied by the Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, took a drive in an open carriage and four in the afternoon. The burries in Wait were in attendance in horseback. The Prince Consort, with the Prince of Willie and Prince Alfred, rode on horseback. Captain Du Plat and Captain Grey were in attendance. Her Majesty bad a dinner party in the evening. The company included the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wake, the Princess Alice. and Prince Alfred, Lady Sean Melville, Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord John Russell, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Hon. Mrs Biddolph, Colonel the Hon. Sir 0. Phipps, Sir George Cooper, IlMar General the Hon. R. linos, Major Cowell, and kbijor Klesteere. Tis Viesounten Jorelya has aamoeeded Lady Churchill es the Leily in Waiting to the Queers . At tie Queen's lents on Tuesday , Captaie Richard Lomax, nthßoyal Lancashire militia, was presented to her Majesty by Lord Akelinandale. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday after noon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Minis ters present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of :Sir 0. CALswis, Lord John Rue -1» Duke of lieweeetle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charl es Wood, the Chan cellor of the 'Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villi ers , an d th e Right Hon. Z. CardwelL A meeting of the Cambridge rOiVergity COMMialliool4l was held as 0. Adelpin-terrace, on Tuesday. Tie COMMIS. mom present we the Right Hon. Lord Staaley, the Rey. Dr. Vaughan, and Hoists° Waddingtaa, Esq. The Legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Bruns wick have adopted addressee to her Majesty, soliciting the honour of a visit from the Prince of Wales after completing his wilt to Canada.—Cosiodion New. His Excellency Lord Cowley, after the debate in the House ~f Lords on Monday night, proceeded by special train to Dover, and op Tuesday morning was conveyed thence to &micelle, en route to Paris, by the new mail packet John Penn, in a fresh breeze and swell, in 97 minutes. His Highnese the Prince Ferdinand Radziwill has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerrametreet, for the seasoo. His Excellency the Marquis Spaventa hen left the Brunswick Hotel for Paris, on his way to Italy. Lord and Lady Stafford have arrived in Wilton place for the season, from their residence, Coney Hall, Norfolk. The Countess of Desert and family have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Albemarlentrest, for the season. Mrs. Washington Hibbert gave a ball last night at her macaws in Doverotreet. The rooms erected last year for the more ocavenient mercies of Mrs. Hibbert's hospitality have been beautifully redecorated this season, and now present • very elegant appeal:woe. Among the recent improvements may be meetamed a megnilloent par. quoit floor, her* a antral plabogleas medallion in the form of a star. Mebane wee brilliantly lighted through out, and all the magas and rooms were decked with the choicest dowering plants. Supper was served at one o'clock, after which dancing was renewed, and the orwipsay did not aspirate until daybreak. La Ribbert's second ball will take place on the 25th of May. Sir Maurice Berkeley's hounds met on Thursday last at Ringer** where they were joined by • large party from Badminton, amongst whom were his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Worcester, the FAA of Suffolk, and Goloesl Berkeley, M.P. This was the last day with the Berkeley hounds for the season. The following is amongst the obituary announce ments to-day : "Oa the lath March, at Coldesalos, his re sidence. Mr. S. Morris, father of the Rm. Caleb Morris, aged BP yews" The Emperor of Austria has sent 200 gold ducats (2,370 f.) fqr the euheeriptiett in favour of No:uni Truchu, great.grand daughter of Racine. lowing telegram : .""ambe7, . . "The result of the voting in lees than tweaty three commune js se follows :—Total number of woke inscribed 67,968, of which 66,668 ayes and 71 nose." PIEDMONT. TURIN, lour. 22. M. Brofferio is a candidate for the vacant seats in Milan, Bergamo, and Pavia. It is thought that be is sure to be elected in at least two of those situ... SPAIN. MADRID, Area 25. The official Gazette promulgates the convention between Spain and lingland relative to the extra dition of sailors. The rumours that the Moorish plenipotentiaries have not sufficient authority to negotiate has un favourably influenced the public funds. The semi-official Covrespondencia Asdogrofa gives a denial to this rumour. The same journal states that the ministers are perfectly agreed as to the course to be pwaned in the trial of Count Montemolin. SWEDEN AND THE SAVOY QUESTION. TOCICHOLK, Ana Baron Manderstrom, the Minister for Forei 9s. gn Affairs, in a note dated March 27, replying to M. Thouvenßs message of the 13th March, says that the Swedish government takes note o f th e solemn declarations with which the French government denied any project on its part of further increasing French territory or exciting the peoples by the idea of nationality ; and lastly, of aiming at the re- ExpßvEi t . T V RSDAY LATEST NT AGE*. TEIII4OTIN /TOY; PARIS. 1111111 DAT MOILWING. a The Habitant of this morning publishes the fol- ~ ma, .OE4IT ARBIL . E P S FROM PAR I SS.• . DION OUR OWN coansrossuse.) PARIS, Warmness Eventss. There in nothing more certain than yesterday about the conference. The latest news still comes from 'axiom. A Belgian jouriail, alluding to the remarkable expression in a recent telegram, that a " majority " of the powers had consented to a conference, says positively that England is not in the majority. The French government journals continue to pooh-pooh the idea of a cosference, while still taking credit to France—who le;prays moderate and . conciliatory, of oourse—for Uving expressed her willingness to join in one. This journal says, with offensive arrogance : _ _ Now, aa far as regards the guarantees required by fiwit• aerland, we see no inconvenience in a ratiosation of the conditions proposed by Thouvenel, by the ordinary ambassadors of the powers aaaembled in conference inParis. But it is for the cabinets to judge whether it is very wee. eary to give this ratification, not to accomplished factitwith which they have no businces to occupy themselves, but to conditions precisely laid down beforehand in the treaty of cession—a ratification which cannot by possibility change the subject of thinp, or give to the Helvetic Confedera tion ray guarantee or satisfaction beyond those which she might legitimately " hope " for from the French govern ment, which was the first to offer them to her. A reoent article in the Pays, apropos of the farce of universal suffrage in Savoy and Nice, calls forth the following pungent observations from the Cha risari : Whenever M. Gauger de Cassagnac takes up his pen to writs in the Paps, it is always for the purpose of impress ing Europe with • dos sere of respect for greet political principles which he rerestablishes in all their integrity. Now, for instance, may people look upon the vote in Savoy and Nice for ratifying the annexation to France as • really smote proceeding, and the government itself ap pears to attach greet importance to it. M. Grapier de Cos levee points out the dangerous tendency of these views, and teacher us to consider this ballot and universal suffrage as • laserioes superfluity, of which it. is no doubt lawful to be justly proud on fitting occasions, but which we should always remember might have been very well dispensed with. There is no harm in a set of people marked for an. notation consenting to their destiny, but their consent is but the feather in the cap, the ring on the finger, nothing in the world but • fancy ornament. The only true and solid basis of the annexation is the treaty of cession between Sardinia and France ; it is effected by virtue of the rights of princes and not of the rights of peoples. Having thus triumphantly trindkated mound political doctrines, Y. Granter de Caseignac m 4104.118 the objection/thl the polar votes in Central Vary and in France itself took Oboe not only without the permission of legitimate princes,jbut even against their will. But a statesman and moralist of hie calibre is not to be embarrassed by such • trifle. He gets out of the difficulty by declaring that " the right of nationalities to dispose of themselves' is admissible, but only " in rare and exceptional cane, where all the ordinary and legal powers being broken up or paralysed, the supreme right of nations to save themselves from anarchy becomes incontestable?' Whence it follows, according to N. Grimier de Cessagnac, that governments born of universal suffrage and of the rights of nationalities to dispose of themselves, can only be considered as a pia oiler. He is • dangerous advocate, this M. Grassier de Cassegaac, and certainly. if ever we had • lawsuit, we should not like him to plead kr as. You will, perhaps, remember that the Count de is Ferri4re, • government candidate elected some time since for the department of the Orne, was compelled to resign his seat in consequence of his adversary, the Marquis de Torcy, a rich, influential, and determined man, being prepared to bring forward overwhelming proofs of fraud on the part of the government agents. At the second election, the prefect paraded an intention to stand strictly neutral, and he must in all probability have kept his promise to some extent, since the Marquis de Torcy has been returned by • majority of 500. g There has been no change of importance at the Bourse. The Route rose 10c. for account. Mobi lier remains as yesterday. In railways therein scarcely a franc of difference to note. EXECUTION OP GENERAL ORTEGA. The Diari4 , of Barcelona publishes the following particulars of the execution of General Ortega, which took ' place, as already stated, at Tortosa on the 18th "On the previous day the general was put •in chapel,' according to the Spanish custom. He immediately pro. ended with the utmost composure to make his will, and settled all his family slain even to the minutest details. Soon after, a sergeant came for the purpose of searching his person. This proceeding affected him deeply, and he exclaimed, 'This was wanting to complete my humilia ition !as sergeant search a general !--ani I then. capable of committing suicide as they apprehend! Certainly not ; I shall die like a Christian !' He then took a medal of the Holy Virgin, which he wore suspended from his neck by a gold chain, and charged his cousin, Don Ramon Blesser, to deliver it to his mother. His confessor, the Canon Don Benito Sans, afterwards came, and had a long conversatioa with him. At six o'clock on the morning of the 18th he took the sacrament, and some time after had a cup of chocolate, and received successively a missionary and a friend of his, a physician, both of whom were astonished at his seMpossession and firmness. Having been informed about 10 o'clock that his execution would take place at 3 in the afternoon, he merely remarked, 'That is eery We.' Then he asked for a basin of soup and ate it with good appetite. At a quarter to 3he was informed that his time had come. He immediately rose, saying, lam at your orders, gentlemen,' drew his loon coat round him, and took his place in the centre of the guard. All he passed the postern of the cantle he took off his coat, and requested that it might be given to his aide-de-camp, Moreno. On hearing the roll of the drums, he exclaimed, My God ! you, who were innocent, also suffered these humiliating preparations ; it is just that I, who am guilty, should undergo them too.' His voice was unfaltering, and his step firm. On entering the middle of the square formed by the troops, he noticed the people crowding round, and said, ' The Lord also allowed the people to be present at his execution.' He knelt under the flag to bear his sentence reed. On being conducted to the fatal spot, he inquired, How must I place myself !' Facing them,' was the reply ; at the same instant a handkerchief was put over his eyes, and he knelt down. An explosion was heard, and the genaal was no The satirical journal of Turin, called the Cam panile, was condemned on the 20th to two months' im prisonment and a line of 300 fr. for having published disre spectful articles spinet the Emperor of the French. The Rev. Daniel Worth, a Methodist preacher of excellent life and character, has been convicted in North Carolina of circulating Helper's " Impending Cnsis," the antislavery work that has calmed so much excitement, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. A PROPOSED DUEL 'trill Bowls Krrnms. —The following account of a " misunderstanding" between a Re publican and • Democratic member of the Home of Repre sentatives at Washington, is published in the New I ork papers ;—" It is understood that after Mr. Putter (Repub lican) replied to Mr. Pryor's (Democrat) gist note that he would receive any message that might be se nt him in the district, Mr. Pryor asked him if he would accept a challenge ;to which Mr. Potter replied th a t he i would inform him whenever a challenge reached him. Mr. Pryor then sent him a challenge to which Mr. Potter replied, referring him to Colonel 'Lender to make the necessary arrangements. These terms, as proposed by Colonel Lander to Mr. T. P. Chisman, were that Mr. Potter, though disclaiming allegiance to the code, would fight Mr. Pryor in any place, in doors or out, in the district, with bowie knives. This was declined, on the ground that the weapons were barbarous and inhuman and not usual among gentlemen. To this Colonel Lander replied that Mr. Potter detested the whole eystem of duelling as barbarous and inhuman, but being caned to account for the exercise of free speech on the floor of the house he con sented, not being accustomed to the usual weapons of the duellist, to meet him in a way that would place them on equal terms, and to name the time, place, and weapons. But as the weapons named by Mr. Potter were objected to, Colonel Lander, without Mr. Potter's knowledge, tendered himself to Mr. Pryor without restrictions, which was also declined on the ground that he had no quarrel with Colonel Lander." Another account says, "It is said that the only way r can obtain satisfaction now is by • street attack, which Potter will not shrink from." of natural bOiindaries. Baron Manderstrom distinctly makes a reserva tion against principles, the application of which would onlybe justified by exoeptional circumstances. In conclusion, hie excellency particularly sup porta the claims of Switzerland, which are founded on existing treaties, and pronounces himself in favour of the neutralisation of the districts of Chublsis and Paucigny. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. NAPLES, APSIL 21 (vie Gems). The affairs of Sicily continue to occupy the go vernment. General Salsano has demanded rem foroements, in order to operate against the insur gents, who are still fighting in guerilla bands. A flying column of troops which had left Palermo was obliged to fall back upon the town of Termini, having met with insurgents in strong positions. Letters state that 13 individuals have been shot at Palermo. Several promotions of gene rals have taken place. The troops of General Planelli have changed their position. Several battalions have been posted near Terra di Lavoro. TURKEY. 21AR.SEILLES, Arum 26. Letters from Alexandria to the 17th instant do not mention anything of the reported illness of the Viceroy. CONSTANTEIOPLE, Arm. 18 (Vii Marseilles). The house which was pillaged and demolished by the Greek inhabitants, on the occasion of the procession during Easter week, belonged to the widow of a French merchant named Dumas. The Greek Consul and the Archbishop, cross in hand, attempted in vain to arrest the fury of the people. The troops arrived too late. The widow and her daughters escaped by a ladder. The French em bassy is about to institute an inquiry. The Duke of Brabant has given a fate to the diplomatic corps. A review of the troops and manoeuvres of the fleet will take place in his honour. The Duke is about to visit Borussia, whenoe he will return to take leave of the Sultan. It is rumoured that the Port will deprive Prince Iliiamb of his dignity. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, Tel:lunar, The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's ste►mer Canadian, Gaptain Graham, which left Portland on the 14th instant, has arrived. She landed all the mails. Her advice' have generally been anticipated by the Adriatic, which arrived yeMorday at Southampton. Monism, Arta 14.—The navigation of the St. Lawmen sad Lake Champlain is open. Steamers are running to Quebec. Business is reviving. Flour is Arm, sad prior aro advancing. Nsw Yam, Arm 14 (Arm/moo:O.—The cotton market is dull and unchanged. Flour buoyant. Wheat steady. Gore lower. Provision markets quiet. AND FRANCE. The Swiss government has completely defeated M ThouvenePs attempt, in his despatch of March 13, to place it before the world as wishing to ob tain the dismemberment of Savoy by a private treaty. It has published the memorandum which Dr. Kern gave M. Thouvenel on the 13th of March, and in which the wishes of the Swiss Federal Council are stated with a clearness which makes mis representation inexcusable. Dr. Kern saw M. Thou venel on the 12th of March, and the latter expressed a desire to be furnished with his obser vations in writing. The following day, therefore, the very day on which M. Thouven e l's celebrated despatch was dated, Dr. Kern gave him this memo , randum, in which he says : Either the status quo should be maintained—and this is what we have before all things desired and still desire--or a scheme should be negotiated such as will be likely to obtain the sanction of Europe," meaning evidently the union of North Savoy with Switzer land. Dr. Kern's memorandum is a very able document, but considering the present state of the question we do not publish it, as it is lengthy. The following is the letter of the capitular vicars general, which our correspondent from Geneva alluded to in his letter of the 14th April : Extract of a letter published at Annecy on the 10th April, addressed to the clergy of Savov by the Capitular Vicars General, Chalk:ire', Butte', and tenses: 6 4 • • • It would be of use to all that this Savoyard vote should appear to be an explosion of immense enthu siasm, so as to confute the unjust complaints of a jealous power, and to show to the whole of Europe the strange de lusions of another ambitious state. Although you have already signed an address to the Emperor, you must make it your duty, Monsieur le Cure, to go and hand in your vote on the day fixed, and to induce the other ecclesiastic., and the electors of the parish to do the same. Do not he afraid to exert a legitimate influence on the fulfilment of this solemn act, the supreme importance of which is better known to you than to many of your parishioners. Be eager to give hvourable advice to those who may ask for it, so far as seal and prudence justify it. "P.S. Those archpriests who hove not yet sent back the address to the Emperor am earnestly requested to forward it to us at once, with the signatures of all thapriesta of the archprieatrick, vicars., carates„ professors, U.' A contract of marriage between the Prince de Pulliam, captain of artillery, and lffdlle. Mirh, daughter of the weU•known banker, was signed two days ago in Paris. The marriage of the Duc d'lsly, son of Marshal Brigsaud,and Mdlle. de St. Paul, was celebrated on Monday at the church of St. Philippedu•Boule. The witnesses for the bridegroom were the Duc di Malakoff and Marshal Caarobert. According to a letter sent from Turin to the Massager de Paris, a commission, formed from among the clergy of that city, had drawn up an address to the Pope, which, after rewiring the signatures of the clergy of the kingdom, is to be seat to the Vahan. The document in question, founded on purely religious motives, places before the eyes of his Holiness the danger attendant on the pre sent policy of Rome, and points out that the sweet means of warding them off consists in noceptin; the propositions contained in the letter of King Victor Emmanuel. (4.414 - 1 600 ITALY. .4. V ve i,ok TUSCANY. (FROM OUR SPICIAL FLORENCE, Aria 20. The weather, which hitherto has been most pro pitious, changed yesterday afternoon, and the rain fell in torrents, putting a stop to the eochi _or . cha riot races iaE were to have come off in the Piazza Santa' Maria Novella. In the evening all the facade of Thrones was at the Per golo. This beautiful theatre was brilliantly illuminated, and densely crowded, notwithand& the high prices at which tickets were soli d. the acoommodation been doubled, story place would have been oocupied. His Majesty, hearing that Prim:ern Bonaparte, wife of Prince Canino, had been unable to procure a box, sent her the key of one of the royal boxes, with a magnificent bouquet made expressly, surrounded by a wreath of violets, the flower of the Bonaparte,. He also sent moot choice bouquets to the Countess Caselli, Marchionesses °inert, Lajatico, and Ricci, the last the mother of Madame Walewa ii, and also noticed the Countess Valentini, a sister of Prince Canino. On his Majesty's appearance the applause was immense. For more than ten minutes the cheers were deafening, and from all the boxes the ladies waved their handkerchiefs and bouquets. The King during all this time stood in front of his box, returning the salutations of the audience. As soon as tranquillity was in a measure restored a patriotic hymn was sung. Again and again during the time his Majesty remained the cheers burst out. The King, though made of stern stuff, was much moved b 7 this display, and continually ex pressed his delight. It wag indeed, a magnificent sight, such as cannot readily be forgotten by any one who witnessed it. The blaze of light from in numerable wax candles, the gorgeous decorations, and crowds of handsome and elegantly dressed women, formed a coup d'cril that cannot be adequately de scribed. Cavour's countenance showed the intense delight he felt in the reception of his Sovereign. Go where be will, amongst whatever class of the people, no sooner is Victor Emmanuel • than the rises are most enthusiastic. His open bearing contrasts strongly with the down looking shuffling gait of the members of the late dynasty. PIS Arm 21. I came here yesterday morning, after writing my short letter to you, being anxious to see how the King would be received. We started at half-past eight o'clock by the royal train. The dense masses of clouds which hung heavy over our heads began to disperse as soon as the train reached the smiling hills which crown the lower valley of the Arno. Once arrived at the station, the King, who was accompanied by Count Cavour, Ricasoli, Buon compagni, Commendatore trballino Perurzi, and about sixty deputies, alighted from the royal carriages, and were received, as usual, by the gonfaloniere and town councillors with an address. After this ceremony, the royal procession began to move through a dense crowd of peo ple, who thronged the right quay of the Arno towards the royal palace. The rain, which had copiously fallen during the previous night, had much swollen the noble river, which was crowded with boats. Two boats of the Racoon had come from Leghorn, carrying some British naval officers, amongst whom I recognised Captain Blackburne. The drive of the King from the station to the palace was a continuous triumph. Thousand , ' of citizens and of country people had gathered in the I noble streets of this historical city to cheer the I King of their choice. The balconies of the palaces and the spires of the churches had been elegantlyde corated with rich draperies, flags, and inscriptions. When the King appeared at the balcony of the palace, where his Majesty had been called by the enthusiastic cheers of the crowd, six musical bands filled the air with the national anthem, which had been composed at the beginning of the war. I cannot describe the exciting spectacle which ap peared on the Quays of Pisa at that moment. On account of the high wind which was blowing we missed the splendid illumination which had been prepared, and which is now postponed till the 29th, when the King will come here to pay a second visit. The uncertainty of the weather de prived us of the other amusements which had been arranged. The boat race was the only oue we were permitted to enjoy. Subsequently the King left the city for Flo rence, amidst the roars of artillery and the cheerings of the population, but his Majesty re turned to the neighbourhood this morning, having gone to San Salvatore, about five miles from Pisa, on a shooting excursion. During his short stay in this city, Victor Emmanuel did not fail, of course, to pay a visit to the famous cathedral, the leaning tower, and the Campo Santo. His Erni menoe the Cardinal Archbishop, a Florentine of the name of Corsi, did not miss this occasion of show ing his dislike to his new sovereign. He ordered his canons and priests to leave the church as soon as the excommunicated monarch had set foot upon its pavement. This foolish demonstration roused the indignation of the people, and had it not been for the express order of his Majtsty, and the exer tions of the local authorities, the cardinal would have been called to a strict account by the popula tion of the city. Yesterday the deputation from Rome, charged by their compatriots to present a sword of honour to the King, arrived at the palace. At 2 p.m. the members were presented to his Majesty, and deli vered this noble present into his hands. The sword is, viewed alone as a work of art, most splendid. The hilt is of gold s the work of Castellani, the most Celebrated goldsmith of the eternal city ; the scab bard, crimson velvet, elaborately ornamented in the same metal. The cost of it was raised by subscrip tion, and I am informed that the names of the con tributors exceed 10,000. It is made in the model of one in the possession of the Barberini family. GENERAL GARIBALDI. The Brescia= having offered Garibaldi the free dom of their town now that he loses it at Nice, he answered them on the 15th in the following words, which everybody applies to Sicily and to Nice : If there is a citizenship of which a man may be proud it is certainly that of Brescia, the town which, when the Ita lian army fought at Novara, did not count the number of the enemies nor weigh their fury, and did not buy a servile existence by the villany of silence and indifference. It was inconsistent with the proud character of the town to bend the knee before the usurper, not caring for the brothers who shed their blood on the battle-field for the salvation of all Italy. The war-cry of the strong town was lost in the wide plain. The conservative and corrupt class, among whom income has always met with cheers, strangled the generous feelings of the population. One stasis echo responded from the mountains of llamoszi, bashful like a maiden, but with the soul of Camillus—l will so speak of the Rornan•—made the valleys of Bergamo resound with the voice of the duty of tuitional unity, and with a handful of brave mountaineers brought assistance to Brescia. How noble is it to throw oneself into the surf of the see for the rescue of a brother ! How tranquil is the conscience ' of the patriot who has done his duty ! How vile is it to abandon the brother to the chains of oppression, while we take refuge, under one pretext or the other, in cold, cri minal, abominable egotism. The misfortunes of Italy have always arisen from the same came. that those who were not directly threatened forsook their brothers in danger ; and if the present is more edifying by the admirable unanimity of all the populations of the Peninsula, it is still stained by one Unmoral and dia. honourable deed. _ _ _ _ _ la;oei r witigratitude the freedom of the town offered by our Brescia ; but , u an Italian and Nizsanl Ido not mean to forsake my cradle, the grave of my mother, and the right., of Italy, or the land of Segurena and of Yaassaa. • The Christian name of Count Cavour is amino.. Tat Vounrraza MovarraT.—The rapid and healthy growth of the volunteer movement in our land bids fair to restore to us an institution from the decay of which we have long suffered. Play, honest, physical, hard play— has been of late far too much neglected by our adult and youthful population, and with the inevitable results. At 30 we are very apt to give up boating and cricketing, while a tramp over the brown stubbles after the p a rt gm and a plloy over the breezy downs with the hounds, are luxuries obtainable but for a few months in the year, even when they come within the means of a working family man. To the vast majority they are, of course, unattainable, and to such, physical pastime, consequent upon the martial duties we have voluntarily undertaken, has become an admirable substitute for the physical play which we Live given up from necessity or neglect. —Once a Week. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco. —Mime TAR Chief Yiretkie Aria, and Justine* Bytes and Hestia* TEf S JUDGES; AND THSIII DUTIES. important sate of Oakeley Ooddeen, which had brew partly heard, was appointed again to come os thi. 1E2,• but Mr. Justice Wines, who heard th e f ormer the argument, was obliged to be in the Mein.. Xt. Y. Chambers who appeared for the plaintiff, said it was eery desirable that some of the points which he had t. make should be decided upon by the full °out, and le., therefore, asked that the cue might stand over until tie four Padget who had heard the case down to the preset/ time etaldbe in aniandaaoe. The Lord Chief Justice lamented as far as the court van concerned, but maid it was for Mr. Chambers to consider the prudence of having his application granted. k, as his experience went, the chance of getting th.. same four judges again in this court was a very harardou. contingency, the cause of this being that the Divorce Court and some other courts which the judges had to attcuL made such heavy demands open their time. Mr. Justice Bytes said his brother Willem would probalA be detained in the Divorce Court until the end of term, until so late that there would be no opportunity of posing of this rule. Next term one of the judges present when the rule came on would be at nisi prius, and until Faster Term next year, when, if nothing happened, the same four judges would be in court again. It was ultimately arranged that the matter should stars! over until the first open day, when Mr. Chambers could bring it on or let it stand over, taking his chance of pttiu.; the same four judges in court again. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. (Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Baron Churne d , and Mr. Justice Beating.) SIMONIN (PALM. CALLED LILAC) T. MALAC. -INPOLITANI This curious case was heard on the 18th of January last. lidlie. Valerie Josephine Willielmine Simonin prayed the court to pronounce a certain pretended marriage which she had had with Leon Malec to have been null and void from the beginning. The petitioner was an ertenw at the Maitre Francais, Paris, and in the year 1853 she became acquainted with MAIM, who proposed that she should proceed to England with him and be married, alleging that if she did he should go to his home (which was in the department of Lot et Garonne), satisfied that she would accept the offers of no one else. He also said that when his parents knew of the ceremony they would agree to • repetition of the marriage in France. Accordingly, on the 90th of June, 1854, Mdlle. Simonin left home without the privity of her mother, and came with the respondent to London. where they took up their temporary residence in Leicester-square. Malec immediately obtained a license, in order to do which he had to swear that he had been re. siding a fortnight in the parish in which he was stayinr. The parties were married on the following day at St. Mar tin's-in-the-Fields, but Male. Simonin (who was described as a young lady of great respectability, and as having beer very carefully educated) refused to cohabit with her pre. tended husband until the marriage had been confirmed by Its repetition in France. On the 23rd or 24th both the par. tie' returned to Paris, and Mdlle. Simonia called on M. Maltz to fulfil his engagement. In reply he said that he would go home and ask his father's leave ; and Mdlle. Si monin, in the meantime, returned to her parents. On the 21st of September, 1854, he wrote to her a letter, of which the following is • translation : Calenn, Sept. 21, 18.54. _ " For more than a year I have loved you. Love and in certitude struggle in my heart. I promised you that I would marry you according to French law. I had such an Inter tion, bat always at the moment when resolution was to become action, a moral obstacle placed itself between to child/eh perhaps, but which my susceptibility had not, and has not, courage to accept. There has not been any con • I duct on my part premeditated. The position which I have made for myself and my family by our marriage in England are more than sufficient proofs of it. This is my resolution— I will not marry you according to the French law. If the tie which unites us is sacred enough to overcome the ecru. plies of your honour, I shall be happy to give you my Ii fe. I will not seek false excuses to justify myself. I have broken my word.—Love : respect. " Lion MALAC." On receiving thin epistle Ildlle. Simonin commenced pro. ceedings in the Tribunal of First Instance for the Dep artmeet of the Seine, in order to obtain a decision as to her statue. On the Ist of September, 1855, the court pronounced Lila in contempt, and proceeded to declare the mare-Inv null 110 void, ab initio, on the ground that it had been procured in evasion and contravention of articles 170, 63, 148, 151, and 152 of the Cod* Civile, and had never been consummated. For a time If dile. Simonin resumed her profession, and while so engaged she was subjected to a series of very riairaordinary annoyances from the respondent—such as throwing immortelles and daggers on the stage while she was performing. Early in 1858 she came with her mother and sister to London, where they had commenced busies,, as repairers or restorers of ancient books and manuscripts. and she prayed the court as a domiciled English subject t/ declare her pretended marriage to be null in this country a. well as in France. This morning, the Judge Ordinary read the judgment of the court. According to the evidence of the law of France male persons under the age of 21 and females under the sr of 25 were absolutely prohibited from marrying without the consent of their parents, or of their grand parents, if the: , parents were dead or incapacitated. Women between the age of 21 and 25, and men between the age of 25 and :SJ, were obliged by a respectful act to ask the consent of their parents or grand parents ; if that was refused, they might, at the expiration of a month, renew the respectful act; and at the expiration of another mouth might many without consent. Persons above the Lot mentioned ages were only obliged to perform the respectful act once ; and if consent were refused they might at the expiration of a month marry without it. French subjects were forbidden to marry abroad without a previous publication at home ; but in any case a marriage which was invalid by reason of a non-compliance with these regulations might he rendered valid by a subsequent compliance with them, by obtaining the consent of parents; within a given time, or by those who had a right to impeach it neglecting to call it in question for given period. The question whether the parties had left France forth@ purpose of evading the law was left by the code to the discretion of the French court, and that court, after duly considering the circumstances of the case, had annulled the marriage. There were two questions, which it now devolved upon this court to decide. The first was whether their lordships had jurisai, tion ? It had been contended that they had , for three reasons—first, because the parties to the contract were bound by the lex contractus ; secondly, because Mdlle. Simonin was now a domiciled British subject, having intention to return to France, and having no property in that country ; and lastly, because the rearm • dent, though abroad , had been duly served be the process of the court. The last of thew reasons the court did not consider to he of any force; and the second was begging the question, because if ma,.. Sunman should turn out to be lawfully married hi Male' her domicile would be the domicile of her husband. On the first ground, however, the court were satisfied that WI bad power to deal with the case. The next question w one of the greatest importance, and one, so far as court knew, prime impresaionia, namely, whether I the law of this country a marriage which had I , duly solemnised in England between parties of full age And capable of contracting marriage, was to be held null a ! void because, being foreign subjects, they had come to f:,.; land in order to evade the law of the country to which belonged and in which they were domiciled? It bed ' contended that the incapacity of the parties according te t • law of France wan a personal statue, and travelled with V , ' wherever they might go. Such incapacity was, 10 , 75 ,, • not an absolute one, because it had been proved in ev:,,,..• that it might be caused by a subsequent set, or by being impeached within a given time. It fuel 1.••• universally held that a • good accord. to the law of the place in which rt Ira. c , 'acted was good everywhere else ; the may e caption being where such marriage was crinkle:A num rah, on account of polygamy or incest; or where it tr , • specially prohibited from motives of public policy, as by own Boyel Marriages Act. The first case bearing on the jest was theta "Scrinisher v. Serhusher" (wh:ch waadeo by Sir Fd. Simpson (2 Consiatory Esparta, 295). In t case Sir Edward laid down the rule an the r , had now dated it, not merely with resin:••! ' ; matters of ceremonial, but with respect to the quistt.ea clandestinity. Story also said that there could be very ho doubt but the countries in which a marriage bail b,s'!. I,s fully celebrated would disregard the law of I. rate. which such marriage might be held invalid. fastre4.'• lenusised by English subjects in Scotland in tininifo-* r• shin of the English Marriage Act, had been held C.• h. so • even where the parties had returned to England Oil the A. day. The opinion of the court, therefore, was that thee n. decide this case solely with regard to England. Tit • geed was, what right had one independent nation to other nation equally indepeusknt to surresder it. ~,* • (intact() give effect tothe restrictions which It had to place epos niarriage. Uthera cone such s right it (vile.,