The Express. — London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

mcleeloa eould (My opiate for the basalt of abo ilia of llnglead. This restrietione dlequaltllealleas ware La Onatant of palm aad asides for &dile, • omit MIA gisally, ham temp. 1. ••simple dosirooka moo molded, sot that the eabeoribers were memberit of the church of Enema, bat that they believed is Chriellies deo- Woe. By dee nos the *aiming seolusive system bol grove u, to the prejudice of the university sod the satin' at kegs. Lied STANLEY, as the ssly member of the Cambridge University Cesimmicts . is the house, wished to ohs a hetet eaplasaMa ef the instates proposed to be (emetic I t wee moat desirable that all misuodentmidiag Msoald ha rematmed ; sad on ground be wee glad that th., madam h e , bas brought forward. It was not eecessery foe him to viadiate the commissioners is what they had ?maw, for they had no legal compe'r'e to deal with the q elation, the etzdneirmis. being established by act of turbinate t , sad the only way te get rid of theta wee by bringing in a bill for the purpose. e we ,. eppointinente were by eel of parliament coedited M members of the church of Burlap 4, sod the etatatee seem manly rrer guided that osactmeat. It wee sot is the power of the commimiosare to do away with th e as mom of eta. All they bad to do w. to see that rue eaekteael eirlusloos were established Larger powers might have be gives to the cOmilii ••110•1t he did set meat that tbie would have bees as sdesatage TM maisiso Were the moult of a beg cow re os with the bodies of the salversity, wk irk the ecclesisetio= wee peed , micsat, sad the ire wee great dishedimales 'crept the changes that bad base reseed upon thus. Elm ors views were is Hoer of the rammal of the reoorloloso— (bear, May)—ead *hie • mares had lases suits td by tin caramiesimers, tat the 'esellag of the gewellund kale , wee wholly app and to it, wad there wee so °Mao" of combs the proposed allege. To Moo mood it would Moo do -1••••4 other velem* lithith the asseederiossa had carried; sad they Meant it • oro soh sad peseta, to give way. The pert of Mell Ineall. mid Mt fiend bibs thestios of sailors was • mere master of Mb cad regulstiss la the salvenity. The mune sow puresed .was Me satvenal practice, aad the eau miatiosers were sot mime that say complalat bed bon and* •••••It It. 'The yob far the compulsory celibacy M the evoke Pillows woe sae** te great relaxed= ; bat them Iron* repeat mem I ihe the elation rf the rule. no dh tenthlcn it chalet formal so part of the original whams ef the reenntimiosers. (Wear, bou ) There was so power is the remtnieeionen to Mahn with the eubecripticne, which, in reality, d • vary small roportioe of the ander /redeem. The tommiseansere had proposed to Mamma with attendance at chapel is coaschatiom monde, but they had sot the elighteet ehaaoe of (*crying the proposal. On the seeirrity of thim points embraced by the resoltatou •the cotertimicetere had no legal power, sad on this ground he should rote ageism the motion. All thee immiselosere could do would be to repast the recoottnesdetione which they had made time or door years airs, but be did sot think that *ay good rook would to &liaised. Should the majority of the hems thisk that further change wee smeary, let it be ale eat is the way of legislation. (Row, bear.) Great Ira terns/ i ogroveiseerls had he.. istradered by the tam& biolltfo. -ad they had °thee, tS oostemplati n. (Hear.) Mr. W ALPOLM observed that whet, parliament ammo powers to Ate coessikelionere, it lett to them= college' mom! mellow and he pointed out the lacenveslasere of teeeirlereere by parliessest in statutes on framed, sad of leaving college. with um 'main atatotm. In oddities to .general objection he suggest d op edge objectiose to the remind objects restemplated by the mottos. He raid tell tie boa. gentleman. on the best authority, thee there was so iateados of ref seise that requirement, dm. is Trinity College emnpuleory **madame* is chew' wee aver requited where there wee reemesble ground of rellgi nue hertmee. (near, bear.) He knew Ina maces of Rome • cethe'oee befog educated there withrut bring required to &WWI chapel, sad there wae se 'seam" wi•hia the lest els acute of • Jew having rue to Trinity College to abets the temelit of sa mbeweity 'doe dine, and in his case Moo the rule of attendance in chaps& woe diepsimed with. Ile hoped the lees mestlernee, for the sets of that ellscatios which they were seeMoi to peiceom sod to rites& sof forth , ask. ef that repine endgame which Le believe I the aidemsi tim would °Meal& the beet way by strooomot botooso tie w0n..." sad the eememlmioaers, would withdraw his me. Om. (Hear.) Idr BRISCOI dm hoped the hes. gentleman scald set pew. hi. morlee. Mr. letWDIGILTII said the \saes had jest decided that Jibe ;mat to the llamas GRIMM miller" of Meyeatith sheled he remieued. The was ea melosla I r R.Galse eallhene ost ler-. sad now they \ad a names rylsolic member sot widest win tb.t. mak tog a poposal. e• No, no, • protifit•llt IMF lee Well, he maid only say that if them emobliskateste Irbi..b rimmed lee Me education of Use alma of the eels- Umbel church woo No sikarot to eajoy the fall bora ef *me eeriest esdemeesets, they wean got boo • Mate of meshaim is whisk sboympoold toolbar rim, bergs bolls of ebairekimes mein le he relieved his the mestrel of the Moe. POLLARD-lIIIQU B ART, altor ozpoololitr Ilmmotopto 1M mai lord (Swistoo) tho Rood mow bo mot the motion, indarow tt. TM sotto w don witlarsoo. IMOVIATIOM OT Os ilto Na as OW. CLIMB hove see gives se bike hi • ball Oaths bow tertlation Impoodos NMI& Too bill wit not • Snit iNs. MIMIC/IL *CT.. O. eta action a Mr. WIITRAIDE Ism woe gins to Irlog Is • WI to somood the moelFal atm SUPPLY. Lord C. PAGET brooireTtlep - Ibie - rooort on eapny. VALUATION OF RATRABLE PROPERTY. The voloarfroe of Rotearto Property (Iretendi Bill peered SRO coraosirros. Ti. acni.; — •;4;;niod at l.lf•pat sight o'clock. THE MEETING OF THI CONSERVATIVE PARTY. (From the hatly -Vest%) A. we ventured to prognosticate, there is to he • grand sham-battle on the Budget. At the review of his troops which assembled yesterday round Salis bury Plain, Lord DeesT declared that he had no desire to expel his antagonists from office just now, and no intention of doing so. Adi instrauon was one thing; • deadly encounter was quite another. He was all for the tint, and all against the second. Toe financial scheme of Ministers appeared the most eligible opportunity for showing how numerous and how united they were. It ought to be d enounce d by every old friend of monopoly and every new convert to reaction. But it bad much better be de nounced vehemently than opposed effectually. It was precisely the sort of external application, which, though not pleasant, was likely to have a salutary effect on inert and contented cooler vati.m. The propertied classes, he regretted to say, were not yet sufficiently awakened to the necessity of making a common stand against further popular progress; and until they were, his resumption ot office would, a. formerly, be withoat power or the hope of permanency. The party tf resistance had ooly to bide their time and they were sure to win. If their patience was great, gnat I would be their compensation. At the last geoeral election they had increased their strength, and at the next general election, it they made as much far ther advance, they would be sec ore of a large term of office. Nothing was more likely to waken men to the requisite sense of their class interests than such a measure as a teopenny ioconie-tax. It was to be pissed for ono year only, and if, as was likely, a dissolutioe occurred in the interval, it would be their own fault if they did not give hint a majority with which he could govern the country upon their own principles. He had twins already tried to carry on the benne= of goveraieg with borrowed principles, and they all knew how sadly the experiment had failed. It would be a great mistake if, instead of wait ing until they could lairlyest up on their own account, they should force him late that false position again. An extra income-tax for twelvemonths would rain at - body, while he abrogation at the end of that period would he a pearitimil and intelligible motive to every one who thought and felt as he did to work epee get wally is_ the cause. We do not pretend to have heard Lord Diane's speech or to reestio his words; bet we believe we are sot mistaken in saying that these are the ides* be would rain Inculcate by the studird moderation of hi. tone and manner at the pros-vet time. He wants the Reform gentlest settled and dens with before °facial respousibility is a third time east epos ht. ; he world fain shirk, likewise, the Ivor. accountability that must attach to those who citric , our external affairs pending the settle ment of the Italia. queetioo. He well knows that though his Carlton battalion were made strong enough by eltramontene and other help to per kheistere into • minority on some single garcon of moment, it would not be stn.ng enough to maintain the position thus pre maturely gained. Lord Dritif haa had entielb of edictal humiliations recently to netted richly a re menu°, of them. Som e tit has entsordiaaree may be eager to rival at odlor. We believe Lord DIARY aim oily fur power, and that until nese peeimfese ne give kiln that, he does not wain sad will we seek it. (Trail the Mae* Ant ) It is understood that at the meta* ad the Oin etnerteo asosoot reeterdey by I. Nay, adosidoo ma ease le es span Mr. Gledolosies Wept. 1111 hear Ibi4 r eserearees, s radatko -id be ereed sea ll•eclay per rally teedeerartory of J. dermal =haw The pees& of this °ppm , sae are mated te be wawa of ins ainotoo.l poesy es the LOOM/ Sal. 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GAY sad BONW DitE B SDIO•CABIB are tits best ems oss rererila-111. Web Wawa : eisillehed M. am tot 411 MA LI. ?al& Wirpia=l4 /W. plan 11. VW somonom dr @nomad Joanna et THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. ma anindsmal %dr of Jemosm^ ly Marc lacuma la adages le et weir Wh MI WO MAN LI W im mad id@nr weft et a Oar U. Wellestewelftes Mob. Iltiore. "1" 4:11 ; Wok IN. Plow longevity all round. Lady Barth wu born in 1746 Her eldest son was born in 1782, and William in 1786, and he bag died in a geed old age. One sister of Lady Sarah was the mother of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and another of Charles James Fox. Strong as was the family likeness among the five brothers, sons of Colenel and Lady Sarah Napier, in all the salient points of intellectual and moral character, the one quality which chiefly marked them all, and separated them from the rest of the world, was their absolute fearlseenees of nature. In our age of caution this characteristic could not bat glorify them, sad at the same time fill their lives with strife, unless they also possessed that repose of nature which ought to l eesompany footlessness. This, as all the world knows, they had not. They would have been demi god. indeed, if, with all their strength and tender noes, all their genius and their humanity, their power and their graces, they bad also manifested that serenity which is the true sign of the godlike. Their " sound and fury " went for more than they ever intended ; their wrath was usually on behalf of the wronged and helpless ; their clamour when indignant for one another's sake bore no relation to any self-regards or low objects but still they did clamour, and vex the world sometimes with their " sound and fury." It was a pity ; but men are not perfect ; and few are the men,' of any age or race, who, beating about so strong a eater*, have so little sin of passion toanswer for. The world saw little of their nobler asters in the pugnacity which exhibited itself through the press. In pri vate life, the gentleness and courtesy of those men, l the faithful tenderness with which they bore with' and alleviated one another's infirmities, their claw lastest friendship to the end of their lives, their ardent domestic attachments, and the lofty and pure sentiment which graced and refined their lives, made the external quarrels appear to observers like • troubled dream. It was not a dream, however, but too truly a weakness and a fault. Great excuse may be pleaded; and there is no difficulty in allowing for it; but the fact remains that they lived in storm, in stead of above the cloud.. Superior as they were to the world of their day in insight, foresight, sense, principle--in short, power—it would have been wiser, and would have marked a yet higher order of men, if they had quarrelled less bitterly with the world for its inferiority in each particular instance. This kind of remark applies to Charles sad William, as the best known brothers, and t'is virtual representatives of the family. It is the Napier genius which we have been speaking of, and not the weaknesses of every one of the brotherhood. On the contrary, the piece of controversy by which Halberd is known—his Relearn of Charles against the well-known accusations of Ootrare—is distinguished by calmness of temper and statement. The long and short of the matter is, as regards the warrio trio, that they are of the hero stamp, and not the sage; while yet they have so many of the qualities of the sage that we find ourselves unreasonably disappointed when the combative character oomes uppermost, and wisdom gives place to valour befo the eyes of the multitude. In 1819 William retired oa half-pay, and sew set tled down into the literary life by which he has ren dered his highest service—and an immortal service— to the British nation. It is not became his " History of the Peninsular War" is the finest military history ever produced that his !shears should be so spoken of, but because the act of writing that narrative was a political service of incalculable importance. When he entered on his work Wellington was unwilling that the melancholy facts of the early part of the straggle should become known to the world ; and if he, the conqueror, was unwilling, it may be imagined what was telt by the obstructive officials who had done their utmost to crush the commander and his enterprise. Well as we understand it now, nobody knew at the close of the war that Wellington's greatest difficulties lay within the Cabinet and the War-office at home. Whether we ever should have learned the truth without Napier'. help there is no saying; but we know that to him we owe the fall and clear understanding that we have of the true scheme and character of the Peninsular war, of the ability, tamper, and conduct of the ministry of the time, and of the merits of our great General. That history has therefore modified our national policy, and our view., plans, spirit, and conduct as • people. There are few books on record which; have effected such a work as this. It is this view of it which ex plains the wrath it excited. The raging vindictiveness of the Tory goverment party is faithfully expressed in the Quarterly Reviews (en two eneressive num bers) of the History. The political and literary distrust combined found a mouthpiece in Southey, whose own history of the same war was naturally annihilated by its military rival. Lord Welleeley's indignant monstrance* on behalf of his brother in the House of Lords had been sneered at by ministers and slighted by everybody else, es explosions of family vanity or natural partiality ; aid it was not till Napier's History appeared that Englishmen were at all generally aware what a war they had passed through, and how bed a government, and how tran scendent a g I, had been transacting their affairs. Apart from the literary merits of the work, it is, and ever will be, remarkable as a disclosure of the real history of England during a period otherwise shrouded in thick darkness. This we understand to be the great and distinctive service of Sir William Napier's life. Of the literary quality of the book, it is needless to say more here than that it fired the spirit Of our army in the Crimea. Passages from it were the luxury of the nights in the trenches, and the weary days in hospital. After all the fault that can be found by critics, military and literary, everybody loves and admires the book as much as ever. Some may pick boles in the narrative, sad some impugn the judgment', and others show that the style bee a dozen faults ; but it all makes no difference ; we read jest as eagerly the third time as this first, and some of us are haunted by whole passages which purees le like strains of music. Such involuntary judgments thrust all ordinary criticism aside, at least while the author is lying dead, and we think of the book as one of the weapons and the honours which should lie on his ooEn with his sword and his spurs, his symbols and decorations. The most common-place people found it molt difficult to understand the Napier politics. From their con nexions and their towering pride they might be expected to be particularly aristocratic, yet they were exactly the reverse. They ware se conservative sis Wellington in some lights, and am radical as Cob bett in others. That they had quarrels with thrift, whip, and radicals in turn was unhappily not vary wonderful t but what were their principles? Sir W. Napier's pamphlets as the Poor-law and on the repeal of the Corn laws explain a good dealt b a t the beet key to their social principles was easing the action of their daily live*. The ser vants, all made friends of, and living on sad es, as is a maws! home ; the labouring clam, Isesatdl with respect and courtesy as hag as they win fist and bag in their own Walk, bet assembled ai ea UAR S t ri. 4 4111 t nirlPio poir among his intimates, such expressions as " the lower orders," "common soldiers," and the like. He was pacified by the =planation that "radii" in this sense did not mean difference of species, se in natural history, bat the primitive sense of " rows," in which some must naturally find a higher and some a lower place; but the other expressios he never would en dure. There is no such thing as a common soldier in England, he declared ; ours ate not " common soldiers," though they may be "privates." He had to defend himself, some years ago, in a ohs raoteristic cause. An action for assault was height against him by a man whom he hirl thrashed for persistent cruelty to a horse. The trial is deeply impressed on the minds of tapro ot= by the peculiarity of the only witnesses for the deism* being two deaf-and-dumb youths—Sir W. Napier's only son and a comrade of his. It was a strange and pretty sight—the pentomime, the clear aeeount rendered by the finger-speech, and the father's spirit whicn shone out in the youth debarred from the father's eloquence. Everywhere tyrants, small and great, were in one way or another thrashed by the Napiera after obstinate refusal to desist from oppression. This was the one clear point about their politics. As for the rest, Sir W. Napier objected to the principle of our Poor-law, and protested against its application. He approved of free trade in corn but protested against the application of the principle in so factitious a state of society, and under the burden of such a debt as ours. Happily he lived to see how well the true principle worked, and how needless bad been his forebodings. He had, as we have said, one son. Nine daugh ters were born to him, five of whom survive him. His life was happy in old age. His utterly fearless nature saved him from the suffering which most of us would undergo in provoking and sustaining hostile controversies. His wife, some unmarried daughters, many grandchildren, and all whom his benign domestic temper had attached to him, minis tered to his evie and to his intellect as well ; so that his decline was gentle. Till a lat* stage of his life his accomplishments as an artist were a precious resource to him. Others besides his immediate friends will remember his statue—the Death of Alcibiades—in virtue of which he was made an honorary member of the Royal Academy. His paintings are no commonplace amateur daubs, but both explain and are explained by the splendid picture gallery of his great historical work. He has left those behind who will guard his memory well, it indeed any other guardianship is needed than the national feeling towards the gallant brotherhood of knights, and the historian of the Peninsular War in particular. They are gone. We have many gallant men left, as we always have had, and always shall have; but there never have been any, and there never tan be any, like the Napier.. They were a group raised from among the medimval dead, and set in the midst of tie, clothed in a temperament which admitted all the ameliorating influences of our period of civilisation. They were a great and never-to-be-forgotten sight to our genera tion; and our posterity will see them in the mirror of tradition for ages to come. We are wont to say that Tradition is old, and has left off work; but it is not often now that Tradition has such a theme as the Napier.. It will not willingly be let die till Tradition itself u dead. tL E . . ' : EBB, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUA . 1/ Tl' 07 IP CL 0 0 .„, OT - 1 -1 4 .4lfenele had been div i ded enemy trim fogey of oppression ; 'twere 111111 „„ 6 , 1111 2gaiL ma . . :;-.., 4. . 14.... ., i rmt of i Lit pomible thoman whom we deuces of the gamine democratic spirit wikib d _._ mu I sibri a k a doulsadit l at in - ` 1 - A lt sa" d whootwe all sight--imald in thole prod hearts, those sincere iumilist au have' • his ilt&sr tell of Impoisagewamt to Sir William's friends can bear witness to the wessieree we i= k teitie Wee et a 3 = auseAti odv :twastr ow ee=zr i ma w eez ess . George III.? Even so; but that:Was remarkable lanoe of that spirit in him. He never let meamenem. longevity all round. 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The land forest in numbers are 143,362, being an in crease of 6,466. The total sum required for the effective services for the year 1880-81, is 12,707,8261., being a net in crease of 2,639,2021. The items of increase are se follows:—Land forces, pay and allowances, 776,18214 land forces, miscellaneous charges, 136,4231.; de partments of the Secretary-for• War and the General Commandicg.in•Chisf, 10,8301. ; manufacturing es- tablishments, &e., 14,9851.; wages, 1911,8431.; pro visions, &c., 164,2931.; warlike stores, 1,020,7631.; fortifications, 189,7831.; educational and scientific branches, 5,3401. 'foe five following items exhibit reduction., viz.:—Embodied militia, a reduction of 280,0001. ; Volunteer Carp, 20,0001.; clothing and necessaries, 108,0001.; civil buildings, 29,4571. ; and barracks, 125,8261. The only items in the tom-effective services which show an increase are—rewards for military service, 201., and superannuation allowance*, 2,9341. In the remaining items there are reductions amounting to 15,836/, the principal saving being 13,345/. in the pay of reduced and retired officers. The total amount to be voted for the effective and son-effective services for the year will be 14,842,2761. Two generations of Englishmen have rejoiced in the felt and lively presence of • family who seemed born to perpetuate the associations of a heroic age, and to elevate the national sentiment at least to the point reached in the best part of the military period of our civilisation, while our mere talkers were be- moaning the material tendencies and the sordid temper of our people in ourown century. The noble old type of the British knight, lofty in valour and in patriotism, was felt to exist in its fall virtue while we bad the Napier.y in our front, conspienone is the eyes of an obverting world. We have every reason to hope that the type will sot be lost, whatever may be the destiny of Europe as to war or peace; but the Napier@ must pass away, like other virtues and powers; and now we have lost the lost of the knightly brothers, and nearly the last of the family group, by the death of Lieutenant-General fir William Francs Patrick Napier, 8.C.8. The family have • remarkable ancestry. From their mother they inherited the sensibility which is as conspicuous as force in them all. Her mother, the wife of the second Duke of Rich moad, died of heartbreak within the first year of her widowhood; and what the strength and vivacity of Mrs. Napises feeling were we ems by the letters of her son Charles to her and about her, as they are givea in hi •Memoirs.° Sae was beautiful in youth, and indeed throughout her long life, and ble in age; and she wee as object of public interest early and late—first se the beloved and betrothed of George 111., and finally as the mother of " Wellington's colonels." The early story is well known--the rejection of the X.hig'is addresses by a girl of seventeen, her subsequent acceptance of them on suillantot proof of the sha ming at his attachment, the inevitable breaking-off of the match for political reasons, and the loag lin gering of the affection on one side at boat. It seems rather far-tetcbed to suppose that the family of Colonel Napier were neglected and discouraged ►y the sews of George 111., on account of the attach mat between the respective parents; but it is understood that the royal lover was wombed with solleitode for years after all intercourse with Lady Sarah Lennox was broken off. She became the mooed wife of Colonel Napier. To young readers it must appear as it there mast be a mistake la the Zoe Court. The Princess of Leiniagen arrived at Backiegham Niece, from Frogmore, yesterday morning, oa a visit to the Caeca. The Princess Alice and the Princess of Leiningen, attended by Colonel the HOll. A. Liddell, vbdted Westminster Abbey a,4 the new Palace of Westminster In the afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses honoured the performance et the Olympic Theatre with their presence in the evening. In attendance were Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. 1.1107 Kerr, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, and Lord Charles Fitzroy. The Countess of Desart has susateckd Lady Churchill as the lady in vatting on her Majesty. A deputation, condetlag of Mr. Haig, Mr. Merrles, and Mr. Stewart, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his omoW residence in Downing street. The deputation was accompanied by Sir R. Cote brook, Bert., !CP., Mr. Merry, M.P., Major Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Miller, M.P., Mr. Swing, ALP., Mr. M.P., Mr. Blear, M.P., Mr. Dundee, M.P., MY. 4I / 1 1 l ia lot, M.P., Mr. Stirling, /LP., the Hon. Arthur M.P., and Mr. B. H. J. Cranford, M.P. for the Ayr Burghs. The Berl of Shaftesbury, Mr. 8. Gaskell, Mr. J. Woks, sad Mr. R. W. 8. Lotwidge, Commissioners in Lunacy, had an Interview with the Right Hoe. C. P. Villiers yesterday at the Aloe of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall. A deputation consisting of the Hector of Stepney, Gm Chaplain of Linoolee Inn, Mr. I'. Humber, Mr. Thos.:Ras die Bennett, Mr. F. B. Bolter (Setae Fusilier Guards), and Mews. J. M. Ludlow and J. Matkoeoctiie (narriotec.), bad an interview with the Under Secretary of State (In the ab emus of Sir G. C. Lewis) at the Horne-oflice ytateeday ter the pewee of presenting a memorial signed by upwards of AO beneSoed clergymen of Leedom, and 2,000 other clergy and laity, on the subject of the late outrages at St. George's in-tbe-Eest. la the neavoidable skews of the Data of Westminster the reemoriol wari m esented and the views of the deputation stated by Mr. H . The Judiciel Committee of Privy Council sat yester- day. The appeal from Ceylon, " Lindsey v. The Oriental Beak an ethers" (part heard), wee concluded. Deepatehee were received at the Colonial-atice yesterday from the Governors of British Columbia and the Bahama ; Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada sad the L rd High Corumbialoner of the lonian Islands. (11011 LAST 111011T . 11 CIAZZITIL) WHITEHALL. FEB. 13.—The Quetta hie been ',leaved to direct letters patent to be tweed under the greet ...al, pantie, the dignities of vlsooent and earl of the trona Kingdom at Great Britain end Indeed net° Wallin Baron Ward, sad to the &ire sale of his body !moistly begotten, by the names, style., and tithe of Vircouct Mum, of Ed sate, in the cateuty of Roxbel as h, tied Berl of Dudley, of Beaky Cast* la the eonnty of ord. Foitaion-orrice. FRB. 11.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Giacomo Grattan se teasel at Mel bouroe foe Lie Majesty the Log of Sardinia. Downino-trrazyr, FEB. 13.—The Queen has been pleased to sppoiat Fletcher Whitley, Esq. (Colooial Trea surer and B • ~ ..-General), to be • umber of the a:we ave council of the Bahasa Islands; and William Haney Doyle, Bog , to be • .saber of the Igl4 attire weitoll of the said Weeds. Her Ilijesty boa oleo bean pleased to appoint Pear Joseph K. Tergesoa, Big., ft be en ewodloial mew bar of tits legislative easel to the bland of Bt. Lame, daring the teetist.sry abuses of Frannie Beausoleil. Req., • stamostr irf that board. HER MAJESTY . / LEVRE.—(rEIS DAY .)—This afterooon her xsj..'7. secompeakei h 7 bla Royal liigbaoss the Primo Consort, lett Back:Wenn Palma fur Palo" Nero a levee took pima. --- Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aantele gave • (read bell lut evening at bar easideaos, Orleans Rouse, Twickenham The Earl ►nd Countess of Darnley bays taken • residence in Br►ton-.hart for Use earos. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have left town for their seat, Shugborosela Hall, &afford. The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun have left Load's Rout for 1.0r.1 Mirkilletees seat la Yorkshire. Tie Countess of Pelvis, the Ladies Her tert, sad dm Earl of Pole's an expected is tows on Thursday, from Petrie Castle, Montgomeryshire. TM Han. Mrs. Norton and Mr. and Mrs. Norton have strived at the °Wands }lot&, Weybridge. - Lady Margaret Beaumont bad an aisembly last evealag, et her maaslos la "'loath Hy. Previously to the aweeebly Mr. Dad Lidy Margaret Beauatrat entertained at Maur the Bart sad Cattateee de Grey, Vlreeset Chelsea, Viesteast sad Vlsmastass Stretford de Redellle, Has. Charge Bpi, LP, and Lady AUa Byag, Bit John Malloy, M.P., Mr. Osvoriik Ms. Wadley, b. iv ; 10 # jouu. IN'fELLIGENUE. • FRANCE AND ROME. The Journal de Francfort publishes a circular of great length which the French Foreign Minister, A- Thouvenel, has addressed to the diplomatic agents of France in reply to the lut encyclical letter of the Pope. M. Thonvenel first complains of the forgetfulness of diplomatic usages which, in so important a mat , ter, the court of Rome has displayed by " transport ing directly to the field of religion a question which, before all things, belongs to temporal order?' It is not intended to make the slightest encroach meet on the spiritual power of the sovereign pon tiff, nor on the independence required for the ex ercise of that power within the limits of his rights. Ido not hesitate to say, sir, that the court of Rome hes not been well inspired in endeavouring to establish, as the encyclical letter attempts to do, a sort of indissoluble con nexion between two aorta of Interests which cannot be mined up and sootounded without danger. In the filat ages of the church, when the tendencies of civilisation were merely theo cratical, that methadon was possible and natural; it wee •C -, **led without difficulty by everybody, because it was is accord with the state of opinion and of men's consci ences. It was thus at the outset one of the &emeriti, of the power of the Papacy, and it co-operated in the formation and development of its territorial sovereignty. Still, if we in terrogate history with attention, we shall see clearly that It was not solely by invoking motives derived [remits divine end by putting forth, as it were, claims in the name of heaven, that the Papery, sometimes with the support of the populations themelves, sometimes with the help of foreign sovereigns, moseded In gaining possession of a part of Italy. It would be seen at the same time, and the fwt must be pro claimed to the honour of the Holy See, that the Popes found la their wisiom, their enlightenment, their love of order and justice—in a word, In the better government which they offered to the people, in those Smelt of violence and anarchy, one of the essential elements of their politics!' authority. I will not dwell longer on this point of view, fro. the fel t that were I to do so I should lead to the beef that I am desirous of seeking in the contrast an allusion, and of borrow ing from the past a lemon, app loable to the ' ram times ; whereas nothing Is further from my tb..ught.. But I may be permitted to say that in our days., in consequence of a progress which the Emperor's go vernment cannot consider otherwise than as a benefit irrevocably acquired to modern societies, separation has be-n effected between the two domains—the religious order and the civil and political one. Ms Holy etTo has therefore placed itesltin diaacoord not lese with the gener.d •po it of the time than with international roles, by caskieg so appeal to men's conecienoce in the mime of faith, for so interest which, when rightly considered, is simply temporal. The French minister goes on to show that this at• tempt is far from being supported by the authority and the precedents of history, and points oat that in 1816 Austria retained at the expense of the Holy See part of the Legation of Ferrara on the left bank of the Po, a territory which had never belonged to the state of Venice. The Pope protested in vain against that arrangement, as he protested against the non restitution of the county of Avignon and of the territory of Parma to tke Holy See. His de mands, which he based both on ancient right- end on reasons of utility to the church, were not a4mitted by the power,, and the documents relating to the negotiations of 1816 further demon,.iste that Romagna had then a very narrow escape horn re maining separate from the Pontifical Stmt... In any cue, the discussion as to the Roman States was con stantly maintained even by the catholic powers in an order of considerations exclusively tempor..l. " Such is, sir," says M. Thouvenel," the sole argu ment I wish to draw from the examples I have cited, and which prove to what extent the doctrine advanced in the last encyclical letter, if it be at present in conformity with the ideas of the court of Rome, is in contradiction with the most positive data of politics. I have no intention of drawing from it arguments against the acknowledged rights of the Holy See ; but I have felt bound to furnish you with the means of rectifying around you the erroneous im pressions which might tend to represent an opinion emitted one temporal question as an attack on the imprescriptible and sacred prerogatives of the catholic church." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, WIDN VIDAL_ The Wisner Zeitung says : "The analpis pub lished in come foreign journals of an allrge, answer of Austria to M. Thouvenel's despatch not founded on any Austrian dccuments." DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Fss. 14. Bishop Monrad has undertaken the formation of a new ministry. He left Paris yesterday evening and will arrive here at the end of this week. It is expected that M. Hall, his former colleague will be entreMed with the portfolio foi ftr eig affairs. PRUSSIA.—THE ENGLISH PROPOSALS. 131111 LIN, Fan. 14. The reports circulating in Paris concerning an approaching conference of the four Great Powers (without Austria) on the English proposals are here stated to be false. Prussia has not given in her adhesion to the Eng lish propeals, and probably will refuse to do so. CHINA. ST. PETERSBURG, Fes. 14. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day pub• lishee news from Pekin to the 4th of December. The Russian mission was going on well. The health of the Emperor of Chula had improved, and his Majesty had left his palaos in the country to return to the metropolis. The rebels were not agreed among themselves, and the Imperial soldiers had been victorious over them. European men-of-war were off the mouth of the Peiho. A letter from Florence says The arrival of a battalion of Berseglitert riflemen from Bdogca, all native, of the couatries on the other aide of the An -t -rams, has beam toads the occasion fora very hearty rejoicing here. These men are only tent by way of exchange of garrisons ; but the effect towards bringing together II thaw bele:legion to differeet branches of the same family ba dad 'able, and hes the very brat tendency towards the promo tioo of the national canes. These B.omagoese light troops have all the look of old weather-beaten soldiers. They ere strong-built and active, and breathe courage sad endurance from their flair, proud, dark fame." Milan is in expectation of the arrival of the King, which is to take place on the 16th. The Duchess of Genoa, moat of the ministers, and the caps diplomatiqua, are to soy mpany him. As no accommodation ta to be bound for these guests la the hotels, the municipality has provided gammons for them in private houses. The Court of Appeals at Albany (the highest tributel of the State of New York) logjams been the scene of a legal costroversy that will sound rather strange to Persona whose ideas are formed as Lord Mansfield's &moos adjudication in the Somerset owe. The point in dispute is whether a Southern gentleman may bring hie slaves in tran sits through the Sore of New York. The accepted doc trine hitherto brie been that. as by the laws of New York there ill no slavery, the slays who come here by the assent of his router is by that act made a free man. Aka Wimp le now made to hare this doctrise Oselared ussounil, AM to ham it affirmed that in spite of leml law slavery may be in truded upon the social stare el New York. The decision from the State is only • mapping-stne to that of the Supreme Court at Washington. That tribunal will now be asked to follow up the Dud Scott cues, and affirm the univer sality of slavery throughout the United States. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now or& owx ooxxxorowoxicr.) PARIS, TUUDAT EVENINsi. None of the Paris journals offer any explanations of the reason for the decree in the Hauteur ad journing the opening of the legislative sessiou from February tab to March 1. It seems to me probable that the Emperor wishes to wait for the ooncla•ion of the debate in the English parliament on the com mercial treaty before he oomposse hie ape . The Opinion Nationale says that the date fixed by Mr. Kiuglake, namely, the 20th of this mouth, for the annexation of Savoy to France, i• doubtless too near to be correct; but that Mr. Kinglale's information, whatever it may be worth, is in the main conformable with the resolutiou atttibnted to the Sardinian cabinet by the Constitutionnel and the Indipendames Beige. The same joaroal throws entire discredit upon the passage of the Indipen dance which it cited yesterday with but very feeble disapprobation. It now says that M. Thouvenel's circular relative to the Pope's encyclical lett- r suffi ciently proves the small importance of the rumours that there is any likelihood of France vpsrating herself from Piedmont, to join with the Court of Rome and the powers which make common cause with the Pope. A Turin letter stated that the draft of King Victor Emmannel's proposed manifesto to the popu lations of Central Italy was forwarded to Peri. on the 10th instant. We learn by the same mail that Piedmont desires to purchase from abroad 5,000 horses and 1,000 mules, that her artillei, will be augmented to 40 batteries, and that she is expecting 800 guns from Sweden. " One of oar London correspondentn,” rays the Opinion Nationale, "appears to think it probable that Lord Patmerston's government will be over turned either on the question of the commercial treaty, of the income tax, or of the annexation of Savoy to France. Although we are not of this opinion we will not suppress our London cones pondent's letter, for in an impartial journal, seeking only the truth, it is good that all opinions should find expression subject to discussion and coi..Ation But we cannot refrain from saying that for our own part we have more confidence in the wisdom of the great English nation than our correspondent seems to have. If the ministry were to fall, and we do not think it will, the mamma would still be left of an appeal to the country by a divolution of parliament, and this appeal would doubtless be responded to. We can scarcely admit the possibility that the old rancour and gothic prejudices of a decrepit policy can still be powerful enough among our neighbours to induce the House of Commons to make over the government to those tories who were so justly expelled from power—those tories who assumed such a poor attitude for their country duo. ing the last Italian war, and whose anglicanism is the natural ally of all tyrannies, all despotisms, all negations of natural rights, and is even capable, out of hatred to France, of holding out the right hand of fellowship to the Pope. In the present conjuncture incalculable calamities might follow a new tory victory; we cannot believe that this party will gain one." The new Bouleverd (de Monceau:), leading from the triumphal arch of the (late) Barriers de rEtoile to the Park of Monceau:, was opened for carriages yesterday. The Bourse was in a state of confusion at the opening, in consequence of the reluctance of the assessors to inhabit the new parquet. For a long time they stood outside the nuttily, talking to groups of clients, and it was only after strong re• mon►trances from the syndic, supported by the threatening presence of the commissary of the Bourse, that they consented to enter the fold pre• pared for them. Business was very flat. The Rents was utterly without buoyancy, and closed at 67fr. 76c. and 67fr. 65c., with a rise of 6c. for cash and a fall of 6c. for amount. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c. In railways there was scarcely any change. There was an utter absence of political news, either good, bad, or indifferent, to affect the market. The Prease says, in its weekly commercial re view : Notwithstanding the state of suspense prior to the pub• Bretton of the commercial treaty, trade hes been a shade lees dull then it was in the pram:Hug week. We have to note slight Improvement at Havre, Rouen, end Mulhouse. At Lyoas, in coneequence of the email stock of silk goods In all the markets and retail shops, moat of the looms are at work ; prices keep up, holders being of opinion that the general scarcity of silk must produce s strong upward movement beluga the next harvest. Meanwhile Lyoas has very few orders trout abroad. Scarcely any spring geode have yet bean asked for. There is ati/la glut in the market. of New York and New Orleans, which prevents the Americans from giving fresh orders. Nothing whatever is doing in metals ; the ironmeeter, are waiting for official information as to be extent of the proposed reduction, and the time when the new duties will come into operation. The Faris mann facturees seem to have already entered that period of transi tion which must be goal through before the customs elfolll2 is consummate!. The lan returns of the Bank of France sufficiently indicate the paucity of discount operations. There is so little commercia► paper at the present moment that what little there is dues not go to die bank, but is readily taken by private bankers and discount houses. A little more bra nese has been done in cereals. Wines cantinas dull, tat there are no symptoms of may fall In prices. An attraction seems to attach to the name of the lets Lord Henry Seymour at Paris, se whatever be has left behind is sure to nil for enormous prioes. Hi. picture. were put up to public cmpetition on Monday, and the sums gives were exceedingly high. VOLUNTEER OFFICERS AND TILE Lugs. — Lea Dished Gazette, is announcing the court to be Odd the 7th March next "fur the ',octal and exclusive recap two of officers of Volunteer Corps," soya, that allow, who are desirous of attending should forthwith comicial. oats their iatention to the respective Lord Lieutenants. The officers will eater the palms at the usual corridor entrance, opposite Marlborough Honor, nod .ill be shown at once to the room appointed fir the assembling of their corps, where they aril form into cotopsuies is the order In which they are to per the Queen. In order to tarlatans this arrangement, each officer will be formatted with a card on which is distinctly written his county, the number of Lfe county in the army liar, and the name and number of WS corps, tympany, or subdivision. Artillery should be specialty marked on the cards of officers of Artirery Volunteer Corp. The doors of the palace will be opened at ball-ism 12 o'ciock, and no officer use be admitted after a au.' ter before 2 o'clock. A HUNDRED YEARS Aoo. be number of net- Men sad osmium voted for the service of the royal navy in 1760 was 73,000, sod the sum of 3,640,0001. was granted for their maintenance. The navy at thlw tiwe cataisted of 120 ships.oi-theeline, beside. frigates, fire-ship., and smaller tarsi., The French navy had become so weakened by the war that few ships remained to be employed, and cassa gamily only sin were take° during the year. In North America the appearaure of the British squadron compelled the French to raise the siege of Quebec, sod the whole of Canada came into the poiressinu of tete . wintry. Tag PENALTS OF USURPING A CLERGYMAN'S 1 Fosmttons.—Toe origobouriog vd.at t e nt t'ttteitatu hat bens is a Mate of csoncootica dating the last few weeks oat of the reb te us! of the tueuhear perform the ban ana : 45 roman over the dead body a so unhaptised cep& 1. the month ef December, Mr. lames Mind. grow, lost • child weich had not been baptised, and the clergymen refused it the burst rite. le ODsequence kr. Friend and hie party invaded the churchyard and buried his chilit'a body, sail Mr. Ballard, a zanier, read some religions service at the • grave. For this Vtaittliell of ecclesiastical law they IMO cited by the bishop of the diocese l rt tee Arches Court, sad the ease come on for bearing on Wednesday last; bat the deo:Amite having primptly disoovvred their error and declared theemeivee penitent, the good bishop, through bin proctor, desired that they might be leniently dealt with is oasasionson of their prompt submission, and they was sooosliorly let off with en admoni ern and pay want of costs. —Bright.* Guardian.