The Express. — London, England, 1861-03-12 00:00:00

Al:a pai lliAB st MERCHANTS' PROM Ilmo MYST iNNICHuNG, panietw4 b. Id. pat M. 111APTHSAI aid C. IS. Lisawleklp, aty. H•RMONIIIM8-NEW MODEL.- =AMIS. BIALIC mad Om. Ilk Ifigeatstrese. FIRST CLASS sad LONDON PRIES MEDAL& 1r ATIIKRRTIPN and lIROODIM Co 11.[Kmurii4 and nweLuse. metory. 1R Hotri.stlastrook Opugg-pries, L oa d. N.8.71n. si.h.hrocist tausee at la the eve olll ll awl on Saturslys .1 1 r) ervrefsfs. TO CoItiIiNPONDEVT/1. iavortleentents ilitrn,led for "Tit* Uprose" London gunning Paper, coon be at the mace, W, lionvorlantrein, by Two WeiMak on the day of publication. II A YMAILIST. Tnt, THE \ A\h TUE DUNK IN DI Yr ICI: L I IL , 16.. 0 .\ !Men. Rogers, Clark.C. , ..Pion. and Buckst..nv Mrs St, Ilkinc Min Fanny Mirlinit, Yi~Y.Uaydon.—Atd MY 11 Ile t.**4 DAI'OBT.A. Mr.Comptuu. Mit lIICEPIWII MIS KYVITIO. THE LADY O — Messrs. Melville. V. Matt hvir.i. sip! Potter; Mn.s Weston, Miss Heath.— THRICE Mr. Mean 5; Miss C. Leckie.' —And THE JOLLY flour. keglers sad the ladies .4 the Corps de ballet. R. JAME,: Teo ;Small. UT 1111/161iiii'RN A L —TOE rEllt OP T. MIAOW. Illaaws.A.Wlipta sot Imam. Ilta Buckingham White. —And V—VDTItIOK. Meagre. C. Y. and &lawn Mimes St. Cams. Unhurt. sad Ear.—Coomose at ball-put 7. 1/UITARNIA. Then annum (MIN LANZA AND SLIT WATFRA. Mr. J. Aerield• Mn. K Yamada., Mir C Clayt.,n —THE LITTLE JOCKXIr. Jacobs, MlseA. Dania& —And ICATLILLICS ; or, TM /SW ut Medic Mn. LIAM. MOE WM& AT LONDON 311100 L ISM SST —Mattis& 7L 411 a..... A Roma. U. 10. Toamonr—ikinfts sh. 14m.. _A/14mm% sh. !Vs. LONDON, TUESDA Y, MARCH 12. Ws trust that one good result will follow from the late remarkable, and in many respects lament able trial in Ireland—a revision of the law in that country respecting marriage, when con tracted between persons of different religious per suasions. By the statute of Geoscr 11. a Pro testant cannot be legally united with a Roman Catholic in wedlock, unless the ceremony is per. formed by a minister of the Reformed faith. The performance of the matrimonial ceremony by a Catholic priest, where either of the parties has made a profession of Protestantism within the twelvemonth preceding, is made a misdemeanour, and heavy penalties are annexed thereto. It is needless to enter into a historic retrospect of the circumstances that led to the passing of such a statute one hundred and twenty years ago. We have to deal with the times we live in ; and the sole rule of legislation, whether novel or emendatory, ought to be the rule of prac tical utility, coupled with that of absolute impar tiality as between classes and creeds. It cannot be doubted, we think, allow what has lately tran spired, that the retention of the marriage law of 1741 works mischievously as a matter of social morals. In a country where two-thirds or three fourths of the population regard the ecclesiastical sanction of their church ea indispensably necessary, and at the same time as irreversibly binding in marriage, it becomes a very serious thing to tempt persons so believing to obtain that sanction by means of special pleading as to forms of legal com pliance, of which in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand they must be utterly in competent to judge. What have we seen I An able and impartial judge, and a mixed jury of respectable men belonging to the middle dam of life, with all the assistance which the bar d Ireland could afford, occupied for upwards of • week is determining whether • marriage celebrated enly four years ago, in a parish chapel by a parish priest, between two well-educated persons, was or was not a marriage in point of law. Surely any thing would be better than this, even had Chief- Justice Monahan and the jury of Dublin citizens succeeded in settling the question. But far from this being the case, exceptions have been, not without reason, taken to the verdict; and the whole controversy is adjourned, to abide the deci sion of a higher tribunal, which can only exercise its power by setting aside all that hag ;been heretofore done, leaving the parties to begin their litigation de sore. Had the lady been in the condition as regards friends and fortune in which most of her sex in Ireland must ever be, the remedy, such as it is, which Mrs. YELVERTOX has sought, would have been utterly beyond her reach ; and if,on the other hand, the man who is still honourable and gallant had not happened to possess the means of defending such an action as that in which he lately figured, he must have submitted without a struggle not only to have his children bastardised, but to be himself practically branded as a felon and an outlaw. It is impossible to maintain an enactment which works injustice so clumsy and so crud as this. The right of a Catholic priest to marry two persons of his own communion is conceded. To deny him the right of celebrating a mixed marriage alto gether would be simply abortive and immoral. No honest minister of the Ca;.holio religion ought to obey such a law, and no one who is dishonest would. But when Parliament stops in to set limits and to prescribe teen it is bound to do so in a manner that will not work as a trap for the consciences of the ignorant and the credulous, and as • means of fraud for the profligate and the rapacious. The statute of °sows 11. sets up an arbitrary teat of being or not being in communion with the Church of Rome, which is upon the face of it absurd, and which, practically speaking, is wholly illusory. A man destitute of the sense of moral and religious obligation consents to attend mass with hie paramour that is or that is to be ; 1 and then mks a priest to many them. It does not signify what account he may give of himself as to his nominal creed. That has next to nothing to do with the question. The sole test set up by the Act is whether during twelve months previously he has attended church, or said or done something eke denoting that be is • Protestant. But how is the priest to know whether he has or not 1 Laws are made, we pre sume, against evil-doers, and not against them that do welL The best that can be said of this law is, that it was meant to be a check in certain cases upon clandestine marriage ; but precisely in the oases where clandestinity is most probable, the Act most signally fails to aired any protection at all. The interests of society are in no way faith fully or honestly served by an expedient so bung ling because so complicated, and in point of fact No incapable of being anything but doubtful and perplexed in its application. A virtuous but weak and confiding woman may be solemnly cheated, and an artful and plotting woman may be blasphemously helped to her end, through the Instrumentality of this bad law. A giddy and thoughtless young man may be ensnared for life by means of its penal and purblind provisions, and a hardened seounilrel of quality, if he takes thr least trouble to provide himself with proof of his church goings within the year, may all the more effectually consumniate the ruin of his victim, through the invocation in Latin of the Meer Hui. A simple•niitidell country priest may be led into becoming unconsciously so accomplice is • heinous crime ; while a venal and vicious man exer cising sacerdotal office may cheat the woman of her rights, rid the man of his gold, look the law in the face, and then, " wiping his mouth, say, I have " done no wickedness." Worse law than this can there be ? Something, however, it will be said, ought to be provided in lieu of this barbarous and blundering old statute, to guard against improper unions by persons of different creeds, and for the most part, as is probable, of different conditions. We can see no difficulty in the matter, once the prin ciple is laid down that the law should be impar tial and uniform. What society wants is not a confession of faith from people who marry, but of plain, positive, and proveablu recognition by them, the ono of the other, as man and wife. Let every Church adopt what ceremonies and use what words of benediction it pleases in the solemnization of matrimony. But along with the religious ceremony, let every marriage be civilly registered ; and let every man and woman be made to understand that from that registry there can be no surreptitious or swindling appeal. So long as the due or undue performance of the rite rests with the conscience of a priest, who may or may not be qualified to judge whether the parties are capable of being duly united in wedlock, and who may or may not be accessible to corrupt influences, the parties who come before him are altogether helpless to protect themselves against the consequences of error or criminality on his part. But were a civil register substituted for a sectarian test, and were proper means adopted for enabling either party to in sure registration within a given time, we could never have such scenes enacted in • court of justice as those witnessed last week in Dublin. It ought to be made obligatory upon all ministers of religion in Ireland to return a copy of the certificate of every marriage ceremony performed by them within a certain period, where either of the parties was non-resident within the parish. Eventually we should like to see a public register made even more comprehensive, and its rule made more universally binding. But in the first instance, there may be reasons why the obli gation should be specially imposed in those cases where irregularity is to be feared ; and we are all for doing that which is needful as soon and as well as we can, without troubling ourselves to make it square with the rules of general codification. Ours is • country of compromises between the prudent ' and practicable on the one band, and the systems tie and symmetrical on the other. Let us get rid of a bad law at once and for ever, substituting for it that which in itself would be right, impartial, and consistent with what has been done elsewhere in modern legislation. By and bye will come the opportunity for further developing the improved system. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1861. (*soot ors own ITALY. THE ALLEGED CASE OP POISONING AT WALWORTH. TURIN, MAaca 7. Yesterday Mr. John Spain, the gentleman who was examined at the Lambeth police -court on Saturday, on the charge of having caused the death of Mn. Caroline Spain, his daughter-in-law, by administering to her @owe narcotic poison, was re-examined at the above court. Mr. Humphreys attended at his solicitor. The first witness called was Mr. Wheeler, a surgeon, re siding at No. 17, Clayton-place, Kennington-road, who de posed that he was present at the post-mortem ;examination of Mrs. Caroline Spain, by Mr. Heath, of Westminster Hospital, on the day before. On opening the skull end cutting into the brain a large clot of blood was found in the right ventricle of the brain, filling the whole cavity and pressing oe a portion of the brain limit, and which caused in sensibility. It was the cause of death, which took place from apoplexy. The stomach was healthy, there were no traces whatever of poison in it, nor was there the slightest smell of spirits of any kind from it, and it was quite apparent th a t death had taken place from apoplexy, which might have been occasioned by sudden joy at seeing a Mend, or by lung continued sorrow, or depression and excitement followij i I On discovering the clot of blood on the brain as des cr i Mr. Heath said, "This does away with all your poisoning. Mr. Norton—Was Mr. Nott present at the post-mortem! Mr. Wheeler—He was, sir. Mr. Norton—And did be quite agree with you and the other gentleman as to the cause of death, and its being th e result of apoplexy ? Mr. Wheeler—Yes, I think be did. Mr. Norton—Mr. Nott has stated that when called in he found the deceased in a state of insensibility, her counte nance pallid, her pulse sosniely perceptible, her eyos closed, the pupils contracted, and that from these appearences he had no doubt she was labouring tinder the effects of som e narcotic poison and that her death had been produced by poison. Now I wish to know, if you found a person in similar state, you would be of the same opinion ? Mr. Wheeler—l should be slow in giving such an opinion, because we get these symptoms in cases of apoplexy ; but we generally get stertorous breathing, which I heard was not the case here. The clot of blood I spoke of had, I think, been forced out gradually, and that would account for the absence of stertorous breathing, and its not being present in this case. It was Mr. Notes opinion as well as my own that the blood forming the clot flowed out gradually. Mr. Humphreys—Then Mr. Heath and yourself quite agreed in thinking it a case of apoplexy? Mr. Wheeler—Yes, that it was a case of einguineons apo. plexy. Mr. Wm. Francis Nott was next called, and the evideoes given by him on Saturday having been read over, he said he had since attended the post-mortem examination of the deceased, and his opinion was that she died of apoplexy— ' decidedly so. In cross-examination by Mr. Humphreys he said he had detected no smell from the breath of the de. ceased, though very likely he should expect to find a smell from the breath of • person who had tak e n narcotic poison, The deceased had vomited on her clothes, and it produced no sniell. He stated on oath on Saturday ; on that oath which had been read over to him ; he stated that it was his opinion the deceased died from the effects of narcotic' poison. In cases of opium the medical attendant generally expects a smell. Mr. Humphreys—What is your age? Mr. Nott—Fifty-nine. Mr. Humphreyii—Are you a member of the College of Su r.Tott—Yes ; but not a licentiate of Apothecaries'. ball. In my previous letters I infonued you of the reasons, perfectly honourable as well as expedient, that induced Count Cavour to offer the president ship of the Chamber to Signor Rattarzi, and sup port this gentleman with the whole support of the government. Nearly every member of the majority that votes with Cavour has well understood the minister's reasons, has, like him, forgotten, on this occasion, his political rancour's, and, in the spirit of concord, voted yesterday for Rattazzi, who, out of 242 votes, actually obtained 219. By thi s act the opposition has been decapitated. And really it does not appear what political reason there was that could induce Rattazzi to become the head of an opposition consisting of men holding divergent opinions, and many of whom, too, were his oppo nents once, and would become such again were he to accept a portfolio, and then omit to bestow on them lucrative offices, and to drag the state into foolish enterprises, hostile to the crown and to the fame and safety of the nation. Signor Rattazzi had become, in fact, the head of a temporary and artificial opposition, and he had suffered himself to become so, not from opposite political opinions, but from personal and tranaitor7 motives. He needed an opportunity for extricating himself from a false and injurious position, and Count Cavour persuaded the parliamentary majority to offer him that opportunity. The King also has been very much pleased at this vote, the significancy of which will not be forgotten by Signor Rattazzi, it is to be hoped, and we equally hope he will not again let himself be carried away by false friends, who have already twice compromised him. Ten votes were given to Baron Bettino Ricasoli, who has not yet come from Florence. Thegovern ment had already offered this highly deserving man the presidentahip of the Senate, but he de clined to accept it, preferring to be a deputy. You are aware that a third party has been formal. Now that Rattazzi has returned to the majority, the leadership of this third party has devolved on the Marquis Pepoli of Bologna, who is the son of a lady of the Murat family, and who aims at being made some day the Minister of Finance. Thursday next, the 14th inst., is Victor Emma nuel's birthday. The vote of the deputies approving his title, " King of Italy," will probably be given on Monday, the 11th , and then on the 14th this event will be celebrated by a military festival. The King, it is said, will review a force of 20,000 men. But these matters are not finally settled yet. Among the new deputies is the maestro Verdi. He is greatly esteemed for the modesty and inde pendence of his character. A min of so sober a judgment as he has will stand aloof from all ex treme parties. Many journals, even some foreign ones, have complained of his withdrawal from the operatic drama ; but he says himself that no man can remain an indifferent spectator of the great deeds passing before him on the theatre of his native country. How, he asks, can a man juatnow think about music 1 He has, in this frame of mind, lately refused some very splendid offers made him from France, England, and Russia, in addition to some from Italian opera directors. He has been urged, it is true, by many influential friends to compose as before, for they say truly that a man who adorns his country in any way is serving it at the same time. It is hoped he will yield to these remonstrances. He has accepted the office Mr. Humphreys—Are you registered BJ a surgeon, and a member of the College of Surgeons Mr. Nott—Yes. of deputy to oblige others and chiefly in consequence of a long and must flattering letter from Count Cavour. We are hourly expecting the surrender of Messina. I believe General Fergola will be compelled by his own garrison to yield. General Cialdini, it is said, is vigorously pushing on the siege in the Lope of being able to send the glad news of this fresh vic tory to Victor Emmanuel in time for his birthday. But in the meantime more blood is being shed to glut the thirst of Francis H. fur slaughter and revenge. A Constantinople letter of the Ist says :—"On Friday last there was a reception at the American Minister's is honour of the anniversary of the birthday of Washington. At a ball in the evening nearly all the representatives of the European states were present, with the exception of Sir Henry Bulwer, whose shams has been the occasion of much remark. It appears that some difference occurred between his Excellency and the American Minister, ia con sequence of the latter having requested the members of the corps diptomatique to attend the reception in full uniform. The result tram that neither the ambaseador nor any of his attachés were present." A resident at Homburg writes to a friend at Brighton :—" You have perhaps read in the Times that an English lady had destroyed herself by throwing herself from the tower of the church, just erected at Ktrdorp ; but it is as error that she was English and • gamester. She was French. She came to Homburg with two gentlemen, who loft her, and she was pennylees, but has never played. My impression is that she was • poor, ruined creature, and thought to rid herself of her present miser." The Akhbar of Algiers states that the long-con tinued drought in the South has burnt up all the vegetation, and tbut flocks of gazelles, dying with hunger and thirst, have made their appearance about Gelfa and Boghar, whets they commit such ravages that the Arabs are obliged to watch their crops night and day. The dabar invitee European sportsmen to make • trip to Algeria, promising them abundant sport, in addition to which they would have the satisfaction of conferring • great benefit on the inhabi tant'. PARTILll7lOrrlYlfen AND THZ EX-QUZZN OF NArtee.—We read in a letter from Paris :—" It is not in the Senate only that the spirit of discussion i. evoked. Another, and a far different parliament, site occasionally, and at no very great distance from the ancient Palace of Marie de Medicis. The association of ladies who sympa thise heart and soul with the cause of government, good or bad, provided it be that of legitimacy and divine right, have also had their meeting for the purpose of sleeting the delegates who are to present • gold casket to the Queen of Naples, in testimony of her conduct duriug the operations before Gaeta. No shorthand writers were present, but we hear that the debate was very animated, and that this parliament our petits pieds eurpared in eloquence, or at least in fluency, the rival establishment at the other end of the town. A motien was made, seconded, supported ardently, sad carried by • considerable majority, that the fair deputation should not include any lady who is the wife of • senator, or indeed of anyone holding office ' hono rary or otherwise, under the imperial government The casket is said to be a very handsome one, and will be amnia ponied by in address to the ex-Queen, suited to the °xe non. The wives of senators and deputies would do well to meet this by a counter-manifestation, and present an ad dram to Victor Emmanuel congratulating him on his vic tory* A Corrvairr STORY.—A Belgian journal, Le Pro ducteur de Leuze, has the following ' Some time ago • young woman na med Baudry, belonging to • respectable family in the town, became a nun, under the name of Sister Theresa, in the convent of Ilautrade, near None. During the last two yearn the members of her family. though they called repeatedly at the convent, were not allowed to see her. Remedy, the rumour was spread that Sister Theresa was sequestrated and ill-treated ; _and, on hearing of it, her brother and sister, accompanied by • medical man, sod the fluje de pair of the district, went to the convent, and peremptorily de manded to be allowed to see her. This demand evidently caused • certain coesternation among the inmates of the . oorivent ; but, after some delay, they were admitted to the cell of their sister. To their painful surprise they found her wasted to • skeleton, and having the appearance, though young, of quite an aged per son. She was crouching in • corner of the cell, as if in a state of great suffering. She stated that she had long been kept without sufficieot food ; she said also, that ber bedding and her room had been dreadfully dirty, but that on the arrival of the visitors, the former had been hastily changed and the bitter cleared out. The superior of the convent alleged that the woman was mad ; but she answered, with perfect intelligence, all the questions put to her. She was at once removed, and seat to • maisomde sante, and the law authorities of the district have com menced an investigation of the affair." INTRUNATIONAL WNLOHTS AND MEADURIN.-011 Thursday evening neat • lecture will be delivered in the hall of the Society of Arta, Adelphi, by the kind permission of the council, "Os the importance to Educstaoe of the introduction of the Metrical System of Weights and Mai sano.' by JUDOS Yates, Esq., Y.A., F.R.S. This will be the last of • course of four lectures delivered on the subject on behalf of the International Decimal Association, and will be presided over by Beery Chester, Esq., late of the committee of Privy Council on Education,. A few days aloes an Isle of Wight pilot vowel, which was cruising in the Channel, fell in with a deserted French vessel. The pilots took possession of her, sod found • cargo of slates on board. The prize was safely brought into See. view Bay. in the isle of Wight. The salvage will amount to a considerable sum. Mr. Humphreys—Row long! Mr. Nott —Since the Ath of March. Mr. Humphreys—What, only since Friday last, when you most have known the act requiring your registration has been in force for two or three years! Now, there is one more question I want to ask you, and that is, whether you pawed through an examination at the College of Surgeons ? Mr. Nott—Certainly I did. This being all the evidence, with the exception of In. specter Dann stating that he had found the paper to which Mr. Spain alluded on Saturday at the house of the deceased, Mr. Humphreys complained in terms of some indignation of the treatment to which his respected client had been sub Mr. Norton—Then all that remains for me is again to express my deep regret at what has occurred, and pronounce Mr. Spain wholly innocent of the charge--as innocent as I aan myself, and therefore he is diecharged. Mr. Spain then left the court, accompanied by his friends. THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE. The following letter by the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton, when she discovered the second marriage with Mns. Forbes, is published in yesterday's Freeman's Journal. " Wednesday, 26th June, 1858. "My deer Sir,—When I visited you in London I wee then in total ignorance of the appalling fate which lam since overtaken me. When I wrote to you from here I had heard some report of my husband's infidelity. Some home after your letter was posted, • friend in formed me that the very morning following my arrival hare my husband had been privately married to • widow of ,property, and they were gone off tonether. I will not here enter into the horror er the almost death blow this was to me, but give you as clearly as I am able a simple narrative of the facts, believing from the kindly in terest you have taken in me that you are entitled to know them. The certificate I enclosed to you is a faithful copy of the one sent me by the priest. I have also the letter accompanying it. I telegraphed for my brotherdis.law, Mr. Bellamy, of Abereivenny Castle. He proceeded to Iceland, found the pried, who, shocking to relate, re. fused to recollect, or give any information. But upon being told that a second marriage had taken place, he immediately changed his tone, admitted that my hue. band had been to him a flay or two previously, and told his that I had no friends in England (I sin the niece of the Countess le Strange), that I had aceepted a comps mise for money, that he was all-powerful (the very worth), in fact frightened the pried into secrecy, I believe. How ever, he cannot get over the fact of the register and the let. ter being both signed by him. I presume this truth we can force him to speak, but there is another which is elf vital impotence. According to the law of Ireland, a marriage by it priest between two catholic* is valid ; but between a protestant and catholic it is not. My husband, I fear, has no religion whatever, but ho led the priest to suppose he was • catholic, and the legality of my mar riage now all depends whether or no the priest will consent to recollect this fact, for we have no writing 'to prove it. Should he on the other band declare that he married a protestant and a catholic together, he lays him 'elf open to prosecuticn. My husband's conduct appears insane, unless he was aware of some flaw in our Irish mar siege. I know that be was overwhelmed with debts, and that his affairs had come to a crisis. On the evening of my arrival, be was with me using alternate threat. and en treaties to induce me to leave the country. I bad risen from • sick bed, where he supposed me dying. He wished to take me to Glasgow, to put me on board a vessel bound for New Zealand, where I had a brother. He told me that be was • ruined man, and that I must leave him to his fate. Afterwards my husband's brother came to me, and endeavoured to persuade me to save my husband by leaving the country ; be also wrote to me several times to this effect. There is only nue opinion here about the matter, that it is a moat infamous plot against me. I should like to know your idea upon the subject if yot have leisure to consider the case. It is throughout so use:plies, ble to mum and common sense tnet, were it not for the marriage certificate, my friends would imagine that I was gone mad on the point.—Believe me, dear air, yours sin cerely obliged, "T. Yuvirton. " John Robert Taylor, Ems. 54, Chancerydane, London. "Please address. under cover, to Mrs. Thelwall, 5, Albany. street, Edinburgh." Among the many rumours afloat in regard to Major Yet verton, the Cork Herald gives currency to the following " We are informed that Major Yelverton wax transacting business yesterday in this city. It is rumoured that bo th he and Mrs. (Forbes) Yelvertou sailed from Queendows yesterday for America." ALLIDOED DRATR FROM POtmoN AT KENNINGTO7f. —Last night Mr. Carter, the ,noner for FAA Surrey, held an inquest at the Wiuchelsea Tavern, Keonington Park, on the body of Mrs. Caroline Spain, aged 32, who it was alleged had been poisoned by her fat lier-iu.law wider circumstances reported to our yesterday's improwion. The jury returned* verdict of " Natural death." _ EXTZNSIVI PoST-cuss's. ROBBERT.—The chief topic of couversation within the last few days in the town and neighbourhood of Loutb has been the loss of a back parcel belonging to the Lincoln and Lindsey Banking (*out pany. The pared, it appears, was prated on the evening of Wednesday, the Thh ult., by the junior clerk of the Eolith brooch, at the Louth post-office : it was directed to their London agents, Messrs. Prescott and Co., bankers, end has never since been heard of. The parcel contained bills, notes, sod cheques to the value of 1,331/. Os. fid; but only notes to the amount of 295/. These notes consisted of two Bank of England notes of 100/. each ; two 10/. notes of the Stamford, ko., Banking Company; and fifteen 5/. note, of Smith, Ellison, and Co., the Hull Banking Company, Hanillev and Co., Sheffield Banks dug Company, Gurney and Smith sad Co., and the Stamford. ko., Banking Company. Besides these notes there were four bank bill' of the value of 224/. 145., Mee cheques Loudon bankers amounting to 4P401. 7s. 9d., aod nine country cheques of the value of 3001. las. 9d. The posting of the letter can, we understand, be fully proved. and it is 'satisfactory to slate that the public voice entirely exculpates everyone is this locality from any participation in the supposed robbery. The misfortune hes brought to the knowledge of the people here a fact which, until the Let few days, was never dreamt of ; and that is, that at Peterborough the mail bap from this district are opened and the letters reasserted. Though time may be econo seised by this course, its policy among men of business _.here is very much question e d. two 100/. Bank of Engla nd octet, whose safety nearly everyone believed in,werecsahed is Frame, sad they have since been returned to this coos' try. The provincial notes have :4160 all been cashed. Wye Court. The Queen and the Prince Coneort, accompanied by spec. Leopold end thy Priam* Beatrice, and attended by the Ilea. Flora Ifesdcasid, lfsjor-Generel the Hoc. C. Grey, aced Colonel the Hos. A. Harding., visited the Zoolo gical Gardass, in the Regent's-park, yesterday morning. The himasses Alice and Helena, attended by Miss Hild. 'aid mad Calomel Bidduiph, west yesterday morning to the TMapie Church, and also visited the Hall of Lincoln's-inn. The Quoin and Prince Consort, secempanied by the Prin. one Alice, honoured the performance at the Olympic Theatre het evening with their pealeoce. The royal unite coaaisted el the Countess of Callon, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord Hank, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Bea A. ilardinge. Vise-Admiral H. T. B. Collier had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell, at the Foreign-aloe. A deputation from the Tow Council of Kingetoompon- Holl, apse the Kitigetoa-apon.ilall Docks Bill (mew works), beasasied busing., yesterday at the Home.ofboe. The direetatice consisted of Mr. James Clay, M.P., Mr. B. M. Jalland, J.P., Mr. Alderman Pianos, J.P., ex-mayor, Mr. Aklermas Abbey, chairman of the Watch Committee, Mr. Alderman °rushee, J.P., Mr. Alderman Bannister, Mr. Robert Wells, Town Clerk of Mall, sod Mr. M'Manue, the Chief Constable el Mall. Despatches were resolved yesterday at the Colonial-Aloe from the Governors of Hoeg Koss, Cey lee. the Babamm, aad Gibraltar. Despaiebes were mat yestenlay to the Governors of Labium 'ad Malta. His Royal Highness the General Commanding la-Chief will hold • levee at 1 o'clock on Friday next, the nth inst. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has weepied the Invitation from the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress to a banquet at the Mansion How* on Easter Monday. the Ist of April, at which a distingnishedoompany is expected to be present. His Excellency the Swedish Minister arrived at the residence of the legation yesterday from the Continent, after an absence of several months. The Duke of Hamilton is expected in town in a is a few days from Paris. The Countess of Kinnoull entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at her new residence at Balked-gat& The Karl and Countess of Verulam and family lave arrived at Themee's Hotel, Berkelepequare, from Herhambury, Herts. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor oome to tows to-day from Calverley Part, Cheshire. Visoountand Viscountess Ebriugton have been plain; the winter at Madeira for his lordship's health, whichhu lately very much improved. Colonel Burnaby paned through Paria from lagisad oa Saturday as bit Mara to Syria. Count de Persigny has taken ni his residence in the Heidi Illasvess, Paris. lady Edward Thynne is progressing as favourably as tea to exported after her were accident, when her htdraidp had the misfortune todialixate her axle-joint. Mr. S. Solly, of St. Helen's-place, writes :—" I shall test obliged by your allowing me to contradict the report contained in • pasegrapit in the Timis of to-day, that lam mimi to Savillwrow. I no intention et leaving Use Qty. Mr. Barnard Helt, senior surgeon to the West /amber Hrepilal, bin Wan air B. Brodie's house." The lad India mail announced that Sir A. J. de Beelnigied largest bed Issea nominated to tb• important poet al Beeretary to the Beard of lacome-tax Commissioners fee thalami of Calcutta. It is understood, however (says the Seam, that the ineretary of State for India in Coonse hoe &hallowed the appointment. Intelligence ban been received from Aesop= of the ressory of the remain@ of young Mr. Cave, who WIN drowsed is the Nile as the 30th of January hat. The body was found in an unmutileled state a short distance below the last sad principal rapid encountered by boats en the sass& of tie eatiuset. It has been interred in the ceme tery of Conk Christiana. The funeral service we. per formed by as leglish clergyman before a numerous attend. roe, net only of votive& bet also of English travellers, the anopanis al Ave dahabeehs which were moored de AMOY at the time. It is not generally known that the widow of the Lee Count of Spasms In the sister of Priam lagiae el Osslipaa. fibs is sow at Naples, and on friendly term with hr ailed brother. "Report," says • Paris letter in the Jourreal de Havre, "Mr that Y. Maarten], the Emperor's private amerelary, is about to retire, owing to big adrasead age. A will-knows writer, • member of the Council of state, is said to have bees selected by his Majesty to succeed M. Morquard." A letter from Rome of the sth, in the indipen elener. says )--" Cardinal Antonelli has just learned a eisra kw pine Cie news—that be in accused by liiris of having seesiesi 1,000,000 fr. I As ibis is an infamous calumny, the wrier! Is furious, and will, it is said insist on having ea tawrltrtioe made is order to detwonstaate that he has not resolved asytbiog." It is in contemplation to open, under the name et Won es Courses, a betting room in Pali'. Members of Paris, Landes. or Brussels clubs are to be admitted oa making ao applicstwo in writing, but all others must be ballotted for. The subewiptiom is to be iOfr. a year. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. The accounts from Poland affirm that the move ment commenced at Warsaw is becoming general. In Lithuania and in the Ruthenian provinces, adhesions to the address got up in Warsaw are being everywhere sent in. Count Plater, who was a delegate of the Agricultural Society of Posen to the society at Warsaw, had set out for Paris. The following was distributed in Warsaw after the funeral : In all parts of old Poland mourning shall be worn for an indefinite period. Let us support with courage our mis fortunes, which are a century old, and our wounds, which ire still bleeding. Let us avoid all vain provocations ; let as, by indissoluble concord, prove that we are the nation cf sacrifice. The crown of thorns has been for nearly a century our emblem ! And that crown was yesterday placed on the coffins of our brethren. Each of you know that it was meant to signify " Patience in sorrow and sacrifice ; delive rance and pardon !" We invite every Pole, whatever may be his mligion, to spread this document in the Jima distant provinces. ITALY. The Chamber of Deputies of Turin, in its sitting of the Bth, completed its definitive bureau. The four vice-presidents named are MK Tecchio, Torrearsa, Poerio, and Audreucci. The Nazione of Florence publishes the following letter : Sir,—Your correspondent from Rome, and others who write in other papers, to obstinately insist upon my havieg had a political mission to Turin, that I am obliged to de. Blare that I never was invested with a diplomatic character, either official or officious, and that, especially OA regards certain conversations and projects, you have been led into SEEM CHARLES PASSAGLIA. (azurzals TURIN, TUESDAY. In the Chamber of Deputies Signor Zanolini, president by seniority, yesterday resigned the chair to Signor Rattazzi. Signor Zanolini expressed a hope that Italy was about to complete her unity by transporting to Rome the capital of the kingdom. He also expressed his confidence that the deliverance of Venice was approaching, and eulogised Garibaldi. Signor Rattazzi then took the chair, and, in his speech, applauded the tenor of the speeches of Prince Napoleon and M. Von Villa's. He also paid a tribute of praise to Garibaldi. He was confident of the solution of the questions of Rome and Venice. Count Cavour, in presenting a project of law proclaiming the kingdom of Italy, said : " Italy is completing the work of her constitution, and is making herself one country by laws and institutions as she is already one by origin and language. On the occasion of the opening of the parliament you saluted Victor Emmanuel under the new title which Italy, from Turin to Palermo, has accorded him. You will confirm it, as the Senate has done, by your unanimous suffrages." FRANCK. PAILLS. TIIIIBDAT MODJIRO. The discussion of the address was continued yes terday in the Corps Legialatif. After speeches from MM. Gatlin and Koenigswarter, M. Kolb-Bernard attacked the principle of non-intervention as applied to nationalities, and opposed the policy followed in regard to Rome. He maintained that the policy of England had been victorious in Italy, and as serted that the policy of France had be- come, in spite of herself, the support of revolution in Italy. He thought he perceived signs of an intention on the part of France to surrender Rome to Piedmont, and concluded by urging the government to adopt a truly conserva tive policy. "The moment has arrived," be said, " to choose between principles which give life and those which destroy. Let us not lose sight of the fact that there is something worse than a subverted government, and that is a government which follows a suicidal policy." _ _ M. BILLAULT replied—The government pro tests against the preceding speech, and against the reproach that the dignity of France had been lowered, and against the imprudent menace that disturbances might break out in the country. I shall afterwards show that the policy of France is catholic, but at the same time liberal ; that it has never been ultramontane, and finally that it will remain a French policy. M. Batocas,• in the name of the government, denied that Fr*noe was agitated, and said " Agitation only reigns where hostile parties mask themselves in order to attack the policy of the Emperor." PRUSSIA. At Berlin, three days back, an election for • deputy to the Chamber of Deputies in the room of the late M. H. d'Arnim, took place.. The candi dates were M. Schultse-Delitsche, an advanced liberal and an eminent economist, and M. Krech, brother-in-law of Count Schwerin, Minister of the Interior. The former was elected. This is naturally considered a check for the government in general, and for the Minister of the Interior iu particular. The latter was some months back op posed in his district by the successful candidate. A Berlin letter says : A complete rapture between the Constitutional sod the Democratic parties wan declared yesterday in the Chamber by IL de Vlach& He attacked in strong terms N. Waldeck and the Assembly of 1848, sod called -them revo latkerints, because the former had said that the term " subjects" ought not to be employed in a constitn- Hemel country. The rupture will have great influence in the elections. Already in those which have takes place to All up VIKIIIIO6III, no ministerial candidate has been sleeted; but four fendalists and two democrats bey. bees returned. A grand banquet is to be given in this city, to celebrate the return of IL 13chultue-Deliteche, and the ministerial journals demeans* it sea reform hugest. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, TCODAT. The communications made by Denmark to the Estates of Holsteiu have produced an unfavourable impression at London and St. Petersburg, on account of Denmark having eluded the question of the budget and not having granted the legiti mate demands of Germany. HUNGARY. PERTH MOWDAT. M. Desk and M. Fraley have been' elected --- •by ' acclamation as members of the Diet ; the former for the inner city, and the latter for the Leopold stadt suburb. In the other electoral districts the voting is pro ceeding in perfect order. SPECIE FOR BOMBAY. r, TOINDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ate ship Delta, sailing hence to-day, takes out for Bombay 501 boxes of specie, kc., value 160,8641., of which 134,5401. is bar silver; 20,0001. bar gold ; 5,0001. sovereigns; and jewellery, gold thread, ac., 6441. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ova own PARIR, MONDAY EvJarmo. The debate on the address in the Corps Legialatif commenced to-day. After the transaction of some formal buainoss, which only lasted a few minutes, The PRESIDDIT (Count de Morny) called upon Count de Flavigny, who had put down his name to speak against the address. The Count Di FtrvloNT—a gentlemanly old man, with white hair and a feeble voioe--said : After the recent inauguration by the Emperor of a more liberal and conciliatory policy, I should have been glad to have associated myself in an unreserved vote of respectful thanks. But an event has occurred in another place of such importance, a certain speech has obtained such wide celebrity, and has produced so much uneasiness, that I feel it necessary to have a frank and loyal explanation with the organs of government. A programme or manifesto of a revolutionary policy has been displayed in the Senate— that sanctuary of prudent liberty and the most delicate propriety. The walls of the Luxembourg were astounded at hearing language to which they had been unaccustomed since the time when Louis Blanc preached equality of wages. France and Europe cannot but be moved 114 the advent of this policy, which is the most diametrical denial of that pursued by the French government during the last ten years. This lan guage was not repudiated by the government organs in the Senate, and was merely met by very timid reserves. Abroad this speech has been lauded to the skies It is pain ful to think that the minister more particularly charged with the maintenance of public order should have made use of the telegraph to propagate this impression without re flecting that he was sowing fear and uneasiness broadcast throughout the country. What is the effect of this policy in Italy ? It is the policy which has torn up the treaty of Villafraoca, an act of the most consummate wisdom. But let me first say • word of Piedmont. Piedmont owes everything to France ; it was the sword of Franos and not that of Piedmont which liberated Italy, and yet Piedmont did not only not follow the advice of Francs, but did everything in her power to make the treaty of Villafranca a dead letter. Piedmont has deceived us and placed us in the most false position. What was the leading idea of the treaty of Villainies It was to preserve two interests eminently French—the mainten sue of the papacy in its dignity and independence, and at the same time, conformably to the secular policy of France, the separation of the Italian nations. Here is the considerable difference between the policy of the Emperor and that revolutionary policy to which I have alluded. Napoleon HI. felt that his task was to maintain the work of Charlemagne, and that the sovereign of a catholic nation —more catholic than some people suppose—was bound to support the papacy ; this is still the Emperor's wish. But the Italian revolution in altogether hostile to this policy. That revolution says that the papacy Is a black spot upon the map , of Italy, that it is a cracked vessel, unfit for use, and it offers the Pops a derisory hospitality in some corner of Europe. As to the other question, the territorial one, what was the Emperor. idea? He desired a federative system, be de sired the maintenance of the principles of right, he wished to be the man of right and law, ea he had been in the Crimea. But this did not suit Piedmont. Piedmont wanted new territories—a vast extent of new territories. She wanted all Italy ; she has said frankly that she could not be satisfied with half when she was able to take all. Piedmcnt wanted Rome. Now, with Rome in the hands of the Bing of Italy, there is an end of the papacy. This policy proclaims principles which call to mind the most sinister souvenirs. It is a policy tending to raise peoples against their sovereigns. This is a roller which vouchsafes words of pity for an august misfortune, ;for which the Emperor avowed • noble sympathy, approved by all France —for France takes an interest not only in oppressed people but in oppressed monarchies which know how to defend themselves with courage. This policy would have Hungary not accept the benefits offered to her. This policy would stir up the Poles to rush on the points of the Russian bayonets without being able to help them— it is a policy which prepares the revival of continental alliances—a policy tending to German unity, which would I be very dangerous for France. It is this policy again which causes the uneasiness and mistrust which prevails is Europe, and substitutes for peaceful enterprise these large armaments which exhaust a nation's re. sources and lead inevitably to war. This is the revolutionary policy which has never been and cannot be that of the Emperor's government. France he I often seen this policy in operation, and she has • dread of it. A Piedmontese minister once said, " France is terrible, even when she smiles." With much more reason we may say that the Revolution frightens us, even when she only knocks at the door. And now let as see how this revolts. tkoary policy is appreci►ted in a despatch from the Minister of the Interior? The following is the despatch sent to every department and posted on every wall in France : "A magnificent speech has just been pronounced in the Senate by Prince Napoleon. It took up the, entire sitting, and has produced an immense sensation." After such ex pressions emanating from the minister, it seems to me that the government is called upon to explain this policy. Is it accepted or repudiated! Are we to sacrifice to the rapacity of Piedmont the secular policy of France? I shall take another opportunity of discussing the Italian question in its details. To-day I merely wish to protest against the danger of a fatal policy, and to give the government an opportunity to deny it openly and separate itself from it. Let it not be said that the representatives of the government before the Chamber are net reepansible for speeches made else. where. They are responsible for their silence, and never will silence have been more seriously significant than theirs on this occasion. (Prolonged agitation.) The next speaker was Baron David, whose speech was looked forward to with considerable interest, because be is known to be a favourite at the Tui leries, and it was whispered in the lobbies that he was put forward for the purpose of softening down Prince Napoleon's speech, and representing more closely the real ideas of the Emperor. I should be sorry to think this true, because Baron David spoke •repeatedly, and in the strongest manner, against the unity of Italy, which he regarded as an impos- sible dream, and, moreover, an event much to be deprecated by France, because a united Italy would surely be the ally of England. He, how ever, spoke very complacently of the possibility of the Pope's temporal power being lost, and during his strictures upon the government of the cardinals and upon Francis 11., he was frequently interrupted by M. Grimier de Cassagnac, who protested with furious gesticulation. When Barou David sat down, a member rose to declare that he had not expressed the sentiments of the committee on the address (of which lie is a member), and must be understood as speaking solely for himself. M. Gouin was the next speaker, but his observa tions were inaudible in the gallery. M. Keenigswater, the Jewish banker, spoke very decidedly in favour of the unity of Italy, and de clared his opinion that so far from an alliance be tween Englandandltalybeing to be dreaded,Russia, France, and Italy would drive England out of the Mediterranean, and secure the line of communica tion with India. He was, however, a partisan of peace. He agreed with the address, except as re gards the paragraph on Syrian occupation, which he regretted not to see worded more energetically against the English opposition. He also com plained of the hostility of English statesmen and English newspapers to French institutions. [Left sitting.] The Bourse was dull, and with scarcely any change. The Rambo fell 5c., closing at 681 r. 15c., and 681 r. 10c. 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