The Press. — London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

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Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News scents; if direct to the °Moe, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED hi:, 110, Strand, London. VtX 1 - n irtoo. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1857 POSTSCRIPT. THE MANSION HOUSE DINNER. The Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Mi- nister's at a grand banquet last evening. The speech of the night was that of the Premier. The noble lord at the head of her Majesty's Government con fined himself to the subject of foreign policy, and challenged the country upon the Canton question. The noble lord, the head of the Liberal party, avoided topics of domestic policy, and gave out no new profession of Liberal principles. NAPLES. The Government received yesterday news from Naples. It is said that a reconciliation with France and England is becoming not merely possible, but probable, and that an Attache of the French Foreign office will soon leave for Naples on a private mis sion.—The Times' Paris Letter tSecond Edition). AMERICA. The Fulton, with the American mail, and advises from New York to and inclusive of the 7th inst., arrived yesterday at Southampton. Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Buckenridge were duly elected President and Vice-President of the United States on the 4th. The following are the heads of the Presi dent's inaugural address :—First, upon the Conner• vative domestic policy of restoring the harmony and ancient friendship of the different sections of the Union, Mr. Buchanan speaks the sentiments of the body of the American people. rpon the Kansas question he frankly and fairly meets the question of an honest enforcement of the true doctrines of popular sovereignty ; and his policy is for securing to every inhabitant of Kansas his constitutional right. In all intercourse with nations they ought to cultivate peace, commerce, and friendship as the best means of promoting their own material interests ; their diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seek ing to obtain more, nor accepting less, than their due. They ought to cherish a sacred regard for the independence of nations, and never interfere in the domestic concerns of any unless required by the law of self preservation. It is their glory, that while other nations have extended their dominions by the sword, they have never acquired any territory except by fair purchase ; or, as in the case of Texas, by the voluntary determination of an independent people to blend their destiny with ours. Even their acquisi tions from Mexico form no exception. Their past history forbids that they shall in the future acquire territory, unless this be sanctioned by the laws of jastice and honour.—The President ben took the oath, THE PRESS. LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. HOUSE OF LORDS. STATE OF THE NATION. On the motion for the third reading of the Appro priation Bill, The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH took occasion to re view the condition of the country and the bearings of the political situation, at home Mid abroad, on the eve of the general election. In the course of a long and able speech he charged the Government with displaying recklessness in their foreign policy and extravagance in their domestic administration. The breach of pacific relationship with China, in which the Ministry has supported Sir J. Bowling, would cost England at least four millions. With regard to home affairs, the noble earl entered into a series of calculations, showing that since 1t153 the expenditure upon various branches of the public service, both military and civil, had enormously expanded, with the result of fixing the country in • very serious dilemma between a ggravated taxation and a perma nent deficiency. He confessed his own want of re liance upon a Minister who was one thing one day and another the next, and his apprehension at the commencement of a war which he believed to be unnecessary and unjust. The Earl of GRANVILLE, in reply, touched upon many of the numerous topics adverted to by Lord Ellenborough, and offered some remarks vindicating the Government on each. He denied that the war in China was unjust, or that the general policy of the Administration had been extravagant. The Earl of MALIIESDURY, Lord MONTEAGLE, and Earl GREY, pursued the subject with comments of a very miscellaneous character. The conversation then closed, and the bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships adjourned at quarter past seven o'clock, until 2 p.m., to-day (Saturday.) ELECTION PROSPECTS IN IRELAND. From our own Correspondent. Dublin, March 19, 1857. Our prospects here are hopeful and encouraging. There will be more gentlemen sent from Ireland to Parliament than has been the case for some years, and probably eight or ten seats will be gained to the Conservative cause. The ranks of the "independent opposition" will also, it is believed, rweivo somo ac cession of strength ; the electors have become dis gusted with Sadleirism in all its forms ; they are heartily sick of the venal, corrupt, pauperised, and mendacious clique which constitute the Whig Rump in this county; and it is therefore to be expected that the followers of Lord Derby and the disciples of Mr. U. Moore will each contribute something to the par tial annihilatiin of that rotten confederacy. The triumphant return of The O'Donogltue for Tipperary is to be attributed to the unmitigated hatred which the electors feel for the Whigs, and Mr. Waldron owes his defeat to his having the support of all the place-hunters of the county. The conduct of the Government in consenting to the second reading of the Bill for Abolishing Mi nisters' Money has excited great indignation. The proposition is to place this charge on the income of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, which is already overcharged. In fact, it is a deficient fund, and made up to a taiga extent by the taxation of the clergy, who, with their small benefices, are thus to be robbed, for the purpose of meeting Lord Pal merston's political arrangement with his Popish sup porters. The bill is the production of Mr. Fagan, one of the Premier's moat supple and devoted lacqueys. He is rewarded for his servility by Minis terial assistance in carrying his Church Robbery Bill. Elaborate efforts have been, and are being, made to gall the Evangelical party here by secret appeals to their supposed selfishness—attempts have been covertly made to persuade them that they will gain favour by supporting Ministers—Lord Carlisle is an accomplished electioneerer ; but these stratagems, orthy as they are of the source from which they emanate, have utterly failed. Irish Conservatives are cast in too genuine a mould, and are too con scious of the uniform injustice which Protestantism has suffered at Lord Palmerston's hands, to be beguiled into bartering for the prospect of a mouth ful of political pottage Th.) contrast of Ireland with England shows how much the support of Palmerston is connected with the greedy spirit of cominfroe, and the arrant selfish ness of the sections who gain by his unscrupulous distribution of patronage. Palmerston is no idol here. Irishmen see through the miserable sophisms and the odious calumnies which are being swallowed daily by their English brethren. Lord Derby's elo quent and spirited address has created the liveliest satisfaction among the Conservative party in Ireland. Thecontest for the city of pablin is another of , SATURDAY, Mr. Reynolds's shams, whose name is " Legion ; " neither is it probable that the county will give up either of its present excellent representatives for the youthful and timorous Sir W. Domville. Carlow will have two Conservatives instead of one; and Louth also sends to Parliament a supporter of Lord Derby. glttropolitall. THE CONTEMPLATED DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE FOUNTAIN for the erection of a new library has excited great opposition in the Temple, and a peti tion to the Benchers against the project is now in preparation. The new library is not wanted, and even if it were the destruction of one of the prettiest spots in the Temple, preserved with religious care for so many centuries, should be first well considered. Sir Richard Beliell, we see, supports the erection of this new building. We trust that no private in. terest influences the opinion of the learned Attorney- General. HIS ROYAL HIGIINESS THE PRINCE — CONSORT opened the Golden-lane New Schools on Thursday Thee schoob, affording accommodation for 1,000 children, have been erected at a cost of 9,0001., 6,000/. of which is defrayed by the Privy Council Education Committee. An address, explaining in detail the objects of the schools, was read by the Rev. W. Rogers. The Prince Consort replied : In the progress of these schools, struggling, I may say, from the moat lowly and humble beginnings, np to the present noble dimensions, we find a striking exemplifies. tion of the Divine troth, that the principle of good once sown is not destined to lie dormant, but tbat, like the grains of mustardseed, it is calculated to extend anti develop itself in an increasing sphere of usefulness; and we may confidently hope that what you have now effected, following this universal law, will not be limited in its results to the immediate objects of your charitable exer• tions, but that it will prove the means of diffusing untold blessings amongst remote generations. His Royal. Highness then congratulated Mr. Rogers upon the success of his labours, and closed his reply with an expression of the deep interest her Majesty the Queen took in the wellbeing of the poorest of her subjects. A MOTHER AND Fora CHILDREN were burned to death at their house in St. Mary's terrace, Walworth. road, on Tuesday night last. No reason could be given for tho origin of the fire. °gall) anb Volta. BACON AND HIS WIFE were finally examined on Wednesday before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth, and fully committed for trial on the charge of murdering their two children. Tun adjourned examination of Mr. Esdaile, late Governor of the British Bank, took place on Wed nesday at the Bankruptcy Court. It is impossible to give a lengthened report of the proceedings. It may be sufficient to say that Mr. Esdaile admitted that when a call was made in S. pt., '56, of 56/. &share, he never paid a farthing. That in Feb., 1856, although the bank was known to be hopelessly insolvent, he sanctioned the publication of a flourishing report, and the declaration of a six per cent. dividend; and again in August a similar report was published, and a declaration of four per cent. was made. Several letters was then read from Mr. Esdaile to Mr. Cameron, with the view of enticing persons of rank to become shareholders, none of which were very creditable to the honour of the writer. The exami nation was adjourned till Wednesday next. THE ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, AND ST. BAR BABAS, PIMLICO, CHURCH DISPUTES Will be finally adjudged this afternoon, at three p.m., by the Court of Privy Council. The decision is looked forward to with great anxiety. Two GREAT WILL CAUSES have been tried this week. The first, "Lovett v. Lovett," was to decids whether Miss Elizabeth Lovett, of Liscombe, Nor folk, was in a sane state of mind when, in October, 185:1, she made a will leaving her estate to a Captain Lovett, having in the May previous left the property by will to another relative, the Rev. R. Lovett. Some amusing evidence was given to ehow how the rev. gentleman had attempted to regain his influence over the late Miss Lovett; hut he had mortally offended her by ordering her butler to clean one of the windows of the old family chapel at Liscombe. The jury, after three days, decided in favour of the validity of the will. The other case, tried at the Northern Circuit, was whether Sarah Radbourne and five other persons bad forged the will of the late Mr. Jackson, of Stapleford, devising all his property, to the extent of 30,0001., to the said Sarah Radbourne, his housekeeper. The ease was fully proved by the next heir at law, and four of the prisoners, including the housekeeper, condemned to two years hard labour, 278