The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

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Is the effect of the grand spectacle which thrilled us on Saturday to pass away in compliment and congratulation T We are all agreed in admiring the true martial qualities our Volunteers exhibited in Hyde-park. It was very satisfactory to per ceive that all the twaddle written about " loose " order" had not led the men astray, nor diverted them from the steady purpose of acquiring for their corps that solidity which makes the difference between an army and an armed mob. In the General Order issued by the COMMASDZA m-Cuazr, at the command of the Qurxx, these merits have received the well-deserved tribute of admiration. We may expect that u one consequence of this review an immense impulse will be given to the Volunteer movement. The itnitsramt G . informs us that, in 1851, there were 2,500,000 males in England, Scotland, and Wales between the ages of fifteen and thirty ; so that if only one in five of our young men were to go into military training we should have a home army of half-a-million to begin with. This is • matter which we willingly leave to the patriotism and right feeling of the younger part of the population. We shall be much disappointed, however, if one consequence of the celebration on Saturday ehonld not he to induce the public to pay greater and better regulated attention to the military adminis- tration of the country, at least in its main Im bues. We have now a volunteer army of 122,000 men, because the nation, thoroughly disgusted and tired out with expenditure which brought it no nearer to security, at last took the matter into its own hands. It was ready to do so eight yeah ago. In the early part of the year 1851 there was a very general disposition in the country to form Rifle Corps. Applications from several places for authority to form them had reached the Government, and it had been resolved that that authorisation should be granted. Earl GREY—whose statement, made in Parlia ment, we are now following—expressed his con viction that the number of Volunteer Corps which would have been formed if their intentions had been carried out would have been so large as to supersede tho necessity of raising a Militia. This is what Lord Gan', in 1852, believed an army of Volunteers could do for the country : I believe that, if we had such corps of volunteers, by mean* of the electric telegraph and of railways a large portion o.f them might, in the event of an 41%4.1600, be col hetet! iu forty-eight hour. on any point which might he at tacke.l. When the country was in danger, not a ma, of then), who by any exertion mull he at his pot, would have lase absent ; and though they might not have hose able to execute complicated !UM VU'rfell iu the field, or to state! in the 'hock of battle against the regular and disci plind troop. of France or of Kum* surely the flower of the plum( men of England, armed with weapons of which they thoinughly underdood the use, and supported by the regular troupe owl the formidable artillery which we have at nor disposil, would have rendered as attack on this country by an invading force an affair of extreme difficulty and de uger. We know, however, what happened. The Government was overthrown by a vote of the House of Commons, and we heard no more of Rifle Volunteers until the recurrence of intolerable panics, in the face of increasing belligerent expen diture, touched the nation to the quick. As long as people were content to believe in the saving virtues of money expended, ways of spending mnn••y were invented without end. We spent then on our army and navy 16,000,0001., we now spend 26,000,0001., and are we any better defended 1 Let the Report of the National De• fence Commission and the propositions for increased military burdens, of which we have just had warn ing, answer the question. Here is the kind of article we get for the money ; it is an official report by Mr. WILLIAM LADD, Master Shipwright at Malta, to the Admiral Superintendent, on one of her Mummy's ships : 31.0.ter Shipwright'. Dike, Jan. 21, Pkirl, lu iihediem e to your direction. to examine awl report to you th” etite ..f the toillien of the frame in the forepart of her llAieety's ship l'opiette, 1 leg to acquaint you that hare be en "tilled to take down the whole of the fitting. of the etore.eso os in the bows, unikr the lower deck, for tl,i. purpose, to-,,,The r with the ceiling between the thick striates to tie le•olv reel bre I. ..f the timbers, and the flat of the etore•rooni deck. :.ail have found several of the floors, fillings, timber, of tho frame., and planking, completely rotten, soil the renismiler of the planking and framing k eliisively taiutill.oll the sur f ace IT the deleteriotui agent which has deetroy e d th e oth 7 purtious herein mentioned, sis lhv.iptinw of Start...ill Port Timber. side. Kole. Nu N o. Cant timbers Ihtto Ditto Flans Ditto Ditto Fist Ditto Ditto ...... ... &rood fatback Ditto Ditto Digo Nature of Irefecta. . Map mttea. • Rotten. . !/elective. • /toilet, • Sap rotten. • .. Rotten. Map remota. Defective. .. Rotten. .. Defective. . Sap r..tteo. . Pap rutted. .. Asking Ustaker drab, Apron 8L ifta. Defective. Defective. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY g I beg lean to Observe, that I sex iseable to sanest any effectual remedy for &mine this evil et Pewit, further than to thoroughly clam the exposed earfaciee of the timber and planking, which me telected, and to Inks away the sap on the edges and Illbesn sad to Ore it two or three coats of raw linseed oil, which will Poettrile some distance into the wood, sad probably lessen the slued the contagious matter deposited upon it. The rotten floors, timbers, fillings, and thick planking will have to be removed at some period hereafter, as they ars too far gone to repair, to do which it will be necessary to take out the thick strokes, shelf, and the keelson, which cannot be at tempted without laying the vessel up fee several months. In invention and manufactures we are un surpassed ; yet have not the French won battles with rifled cannon while we are as yet dreaming about our new artillery T Is it true that we cover our Trustys with steel plates that are shat tered to stoma, while the French floating batteries are cased in armour which no bolt can enter And when is the blind confidence of the nation in large and liberal votes to come to an end I' We I are so wealthy, so accustomed to overcome all difficulties with money, that it is no wonder that we hear that the Government is about to come down to the House of Commons for a swingeing sum which is to go the way of all our warlike ex penditure. We taxpayers are a good deal to blame for this. It must be owned we have taught the Government to reply to weak fears by heavy expenditure. We feel safer for a whole month when we have paid our extra threepence or four pence in the pound in Income Tax. In return for this confidence we have just got an assurance, under the hands of six gallant officers sitting as a Royal Commission, that after careful consideration they are led to the opinion that neither the fleet nor the standing army, with the assistance of the volunteers, nor all three combined, can keep an enemy out of the country. What will keep him out Before another farthing is voted, let us know that. Lord Ovnurross's " It must never be 1 " may just as well be said of invasion as of the capture of London. Is it come to this, that we are quietly taking for granted the inability to defend these shores of that navy which has to maintain our honour in every part of the world The time is not come for giving up the British fleet to confessed inefficiency. Foreign nations struggling into freedom look to us for an example ; colonists scattered over the face of the globe will blush if we lower the old flag. If the fleet is not invincible it is time to look to it. Ask any experienced officer why it is under-manned, why the best seamen do not crowd to it, and you will be told it is a question of money ; not of voting, but of employing the money. Profuseness reigns everywhere except in the treat meat of the really effective members of the ser vice. And it is under these circumstances, with underhanded ships, and crews breaking out from time to time in mutiny, that we propose to spend from eight to twelve millions in fortifica tions. If the money really must be spent, if the most wealthy and vigorous nation in Europe, num bering six million males between the ages of 16 and 60, cannot so organise itself for defence as to make invasion the dream of insanity, then let somebody learned in the mysteries of the Admi ralty tell us why it would not be butter to spend the interest of 12,000,0001. In the wages of able seamen, an expenditure which will bring power to the country at home and abroad, than to sink the capital once for all in defences which, with fair play to the fleet, would never be wanted. Secure your dockyards and arsenals against a coup-de-main by all means ; keep up your Channel Fleet ; encourage Rifle and Artillery Volunteering ; raise up a local Militia, and you may avoid bankruptcy and defy the return of panic. Tee Aproassv-Gsseasi. was too hasty last night. The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill is a measure affecting too important interests to be imperilled because the House of Commons hesi tated to throw upon the Consolidated Fund the heavy compensation charges which it would involve. The liberality with which com pensation is often awarded to gentlemen retiring from the public service is such as is unknown out of governmental departments ; but when the principle has been recognised and the amount has been fixed, its surely much better that the burden should be distributed over the nation generally than be devolved on a small portion of the community. In the present case, unless it is resolved to refuse compensation to offi cers whose services having been adequately paid for are no longer wanted, the required sums must either be levied on the suitors of the Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency or be paid out of the national taxes. But, as the Court exists for the protection of credit, which is a public object, there appears no reason for throwing its charges exclusively upon those who are unfortunately com pelled to have recourse to its assistance. However this question may be decided, there is no excuse for jeopardising a Bill the loss of which, as was observed last night, would make the cause of Bankruptcy Reform well nigh desperate. THE QUEEN AND THE VOLUNTEERS. HORSE GUARDS, Jess 25, MOO. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has received the commands of the Queen to convey to the several Volunteer Corps reviewed by her Majesty on Saturday, the 23rd instant, the very great satisfaction with which she obeerved the rapid progress they have wade in military discipline, and the degree of perfection at which they have arrived. The steadiness and precision with which they performed the parade movements leave littl e d ou bt in her Majesty's mind that, if they conti nue t o b e actuated by the Name zeal they have hitherto evinced, a moderate degree of drill, interfering as little as isesible with their usual avocations, will render them a most valuable auxiliary to her regular forces for the defence of the country. Much as her Majesty's admiration was excited by the oldierlike bearing of the various corps passed in review, a still deeper impression has boon made on her mind by the proof which the volun teer movement throughout the country affords of their devotion and loyalty to the Throne, and their anxiety to woad her endeavours to ensure the security, and thereby the prosperity of the king dom. The General Commanding-in-Chief is further directed by her Majesty to mark especially her sense of the zeal displayed by the officers of volun teers commanding brigades and corps, and to notice particularly those battalions and companies which, regardless of personal inconvenience and expense, came from distant counties to join iu the display of loyalty and patriotism, which will render the 23rd of June, 1860, memorable in the annals of our times. The General Commanding-in-Chief having thus given expression to her Majesty's sentiments re garding the Volunteer Force, commendation on the part of his royal highness would be superfluous ; but he desires to offer his thanks for the support and co-operation he has received on this Occasion front the othoers of the regular army employed 'luring the day, and, more particularly, to refer to the excellent arrangements made by the inspector of volunteers and his assistants, which were so well ettooteled by the intelligence and orderly conduct of the carton; corps present. By command of his Royal Highness The General Commanding-in-Chief ; Jut' Yogis ficAsLierr, Adjutant-Go al PARLIAMENTARY DIVAIIONS. ___,.- ; , 4 t HOUSE Of LO S. --(LA/if Taw) Asirm " That . ait bumble *Adze, be pretested to her lf , preg ber Maj ely to lb jiramously pleased to a C at bimetal's*, rill* a eieer Oe promote interests etommeree emd lb* emend= of the treaties between Greet Bri s tn ibi t Portugal upon the Slave Trade." (The Lord ) ; objected to : On question 1 Contents, 11. Non-aosteats, 8. CONTENT& LORD ORMICIILLOR. 11111101 IL LORDS. Campbell Cashel, etc. Brougham & Vasa Lug. Chichester Denman ~TeUer) Minto Lincoln Dunfermline 111110711. Orford flostheden ,Teller) Bangor NON-CONTENTS. Wit LEL. LORDS. Somerset °morale Ta 11304 de Malted& LARL. LORD. Wookboole De Grey ;Teller) Foley (Teller) HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Lase Mawr.) BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (SALARIES, &.) Pint resolution read seecad tiros :—Amenclment proposed in line 2, to laws oat the words "sad compensations :" —(Sir Henry Willoughby :)—Qmstion put, " That the words and compsortions used art of the resolu tion :"—The hones disidsd—Ayes, 88 - , Noce, 111. XEL Adam, W. P. 0001 n A . C. Murray. W. Boswell, J. Olit. 0. C. Newport, Viscount Beaumont, W. B. Goa, C. W. Paull. H. Bothell, Mr B. Oars, 1. IL Portman, W. H. Bleneowe, J. 0. animas, 'kJ. Potts, 0. Beady, J. Orenson, fil. Bepton, G. W. Beldgee, Rir B. W. Orey MG. Rob,ntson, D. Caking, F. M. Oudot, B. Bogen, J. J. Cardwell, E. Hadfield, 0. Rumen, H. Castlerosae, Thiel. Hantutry & Russell. A. Cave 8 l• Sankey, T. Ewell, Sir W. Childen, H. C. Hayter, Sir W. G. Salt Titus Clay. J. Headlant, T. E. Seymour, Sir M. Clive, 0. Henley, Lord Seymour, H. D. Mee, IL C. Hennessy, J. P. Boman J. Cowper, W. F. HIS, & C. Stanley. Lord Crooked, & H. Kershaw, J. Stanley, W. 0. Crawford, B. W. &latish*, J. A. Taylor. H. Crossley, F. Bingscote, Colonel Thompson. H. S. Davey, B. Knatchholl, W. F. Trefusla, C. H. Deasy, & Lang, U. Valletort, Viscoant Divett, B. =W. Si. Villiers, C. P. Dodson, J. 0. J. Walpole, B. H. Dunbar, Si, W. Lennox. Lord H. 0. Warm, J. A. Duncombe, T. Lindsay, W. S. WO*, W. I. Dundee., F. Lindsay, Colonel Wemyss, J. H. Enfield, Viscount =IP. Wilcox, B. Esmond*, J. on, W. A. Woods, H. Esteourt, T. H. Mallas, it. Welshman, W. B. Swart, W. Manners, Lord J. Wyndham, IL Ewan, J. C. Majorlhonka, D. C. MULL Forteseue, F. D. Martin. P. W. Brand, H. B. You, W. J. Massey, W. N. inatelbrull - Hops. Gibson, T. M. Milo, Sir W. sen, E. H. FOIL Agnew, Sir A. Ewing, H. K. Lennox, Lord G. Arbuthnott, General lansoy, Lord Locke, John Ayrton, A. 8. Miser, Sir L Lockhart, A. E. Baines, R. Mislay, A. 8. Lone. R. P. Baxter, W. E. Forester, Colonel Macaulay, E. Barley, T. French, Colonel Mackie, J. Beach, W. W. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Mills, A. Seale, 8 Gard, IL 8. Monsen, W. Beeerat, G. 8. Garnett, W. J. Morgan, 0. Bellow, B. Y. Oaskell, J. Y. Morris, D. Bernard, Coked °toenail, G. Mowbray, J. IL Blackburn, P. Greenwood, J. North, Y. Bond, J. W. Orenlell, C. P. Northcotr. SD 8. H. Porrerle, L P. OM', Captain Padaore, IL Deaver* P. Gurney, J. H. C. per!, 3. Hamilton, Lord C. Pat. L. Bnilik L Hamner, Sir J. Parker, Major W. Brooks, R. Haseard. H. Permute, O. H. Butler, C. 8. Henley, J. W. Rowley, It. T. Card, J. Herbert, Colonel P. iiclater.Booth, G. Charehill, Lord A.S. Hodgkinson, 0. Scott. Sir W. Clifford, C. C. Harm:eclair, Vinci. Shelley, Sir J. V. Clinton, Lord R. Howes, E. Smith. Angusttui Cokbrooke, Sir T. L. Hunt, G. W. Stanafeld, J. Collins, T. Ingestre, Viscount Stirling, W. AM. Jerrie, Copt. Steuart, A. Joni:le, Sir W. O. Talbot, C. R. lk%41: 1 18.. I. Jonas, D. Thyme, Lord IL W. Kendall, N. Tottenham, C. rM ee nt, 4 1. D. Kim J. K. Trollops% Si, J. Dillwen, L L. Knight. Y. W. Vanes, J. Limbs, its Lao; Major Vous Lord H. Ducoup, A. loom, Sir O. Walcott, Admire' Dunne, Colonel Lawman, W. Walk.,, J. Z. Du Pre, C. G. !alloy A. aingtem, 1114T.L -,.. A. r 14. z. Lam, lWhice Willoughby, ffir H. &W. T. W. Lib, W. J. Barrow. W. E. THE PRIVILEGES OP THE HOUSE OP LORDS.- PROCEEDINGS OP THE COMMITTEE. (Frew the Times.) We believe we may announce that the colliaion between the Lents and the Commons which was to be, and which was to lead to the extermination or subjection of the former anomalous body, has been averted. The very numer ous committee of two-sad-twenty, we are told, succeeded iu resolving itself into two parties, under two chiefs, who both prepared reports. Mr. Walpole prepared one, giving a quiet history of the precedents, and saying very much what has been said before. Bound to truth, he was unable to import much variety into • theme which was simply a question as to matters of fact. A counter-report was pre pared by Mr. Bright, with the assistance, it is said, of a constitutional adviser of great celebrity in small circles. This went into the very depths and height' of the question, and, of course, concluded that the House of Lords had done what it had no right to do, and that the House of Commons should set the decision of the Lords at nought. This might be very excellent advice if the object were to bring things to the speediest possible issue, at whatever cost ; and we can away imagine gentlemen very happy to ride the storm that might be got up on such an occasion. These two report' were laid before the committee, which had thus to choose between history and science, between dry matter of hog and ardent opinion. Borne members of the committee could not agree with Mr. Bright's report, yet stood so much in awe of its explosive tendency that they proposed a compromise —a third report, which should amalgamate the two gauges. Eventually, however, the two rival reports were put to the vote, when Mr. Bright succeeded in ob taining, in addition to his own vote, for his own report, those of Mr. Gladstone and Lord John Russell. The former of these gentlemen warn concerned in the subject-matter of the difference—the repeal of the paper duty—and the latter was tolerably safe to take the widest interpretation of popular right and the narrowest of constitutional privi lege. The whole trio, therefore, were too deeply pledged fur their agreement to form any novelty or have any weight. The remainder of the committee agreed to Mr. Walpole's report. There can be little doubt as to the course to be taken by the house. The three dissentients will have • hearing, and will recommend and deliver their own report, amplified into three good speeches. They will be well supported, and the conatitutioual question will be Wyly illustrated and embellished. The house, however, will be content with letting the minority have their say out. It will adopt Mr. Walpole's report, with, possibly, • quiet protest against the late decision of the Lords being coo• 'trued into • new precedent. THE WEATHER AND THE CROP& --Considerable anxiety continues to prevail as to the weather. A favour able change has, it is true, been experienced during the poet week, and Sunday was marked by a decided improve ment in temperature and sunny influence. Heavy rain again fell on Monday, and there moms as yet no Dort of indicatiou that settled weather is likely to visit us. Some improvemeut may be seen iu the appearance of the crops, especially on the best mils, and we are disposed to believe that, on these, average growths would even now be attained should dry and warm weather set in. Every day of con tinual rain operates now, however, with cumulative effect, and with a wet " blooming" time serious Hijacks/ most ensue. On the thin and badly fanned soils much mischief Kul already been effected, and further wet moat greatly increase it. Though no alarmists, and knowing with what rapidity settled and seasonable summer heat works out the met beneficial results, it is impossible to contemplate the present state of things without serious unesainees. We can only express the hope that a change may speedily ensue. As regards the haymaking, some little progress Fan been made during the week. and we hear at crepe made and stacked in very fair coodition. Dry sad warm weather is, however, greatly needed.—dassm Adtrrtiar. WRICKINO • PROT EWA NI'S HOU PM —At the Dublin Commission Court on Saturday, a batch of 15 per. lOU, men and women, were tried fur wrecking the house of Min Sherwood, who was guilty in their eym of the crime of proteMantisin. They attempted likewise to set it on Are, and so dispose of the " souper," am they deli ted her. Mr. Justice Hughes (a Roman catholic), in his com mented strongly on the conduct of the police in the matter. It was, lie mid, almost impossible they could have been unaware of such a riot—that had maseeded for several hours—yet they never interfered. The priapism were acquitted of tho charge of attempted moo, but seven were convicted of the riot and assault. One was sent to prison fur Rix months, three women for two months, and tie other three were held to hall. Ten Corr OF FANCY DRINI4ZIPI. —At Paris last week a dealer in theatrical costumes, named Rabin, brought an action before the Civil Tribunal, against a gentleman of property named Gaya de Brun, to Okada payment of 750 fr. for a costume of the time of Heury 111., sold to that gentle man's wife fur shall au themi-Gareme, but of which in con sequence of being ludisposeil that day, she bad not made any use. M. Guyot de Brun maiat•iaed that the costume had not been bought but hired for • sum of 100 fr., aud be offered, though it had not bean rand. to pay that amount. tribunal held that no sate had been proved, but it ordered H. Guyot de Brun to pay the trader 'Mfr. IA - 4YI Ebt Court. lilt Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Sa turday next M Buckingham Palace. • Her itajegy and the Prince Consort lett Buikinghan Palace at twenty minutes past twelve Vella YeekelaY the Royal Pavilion, Aldenhott Camp. Her Mileely sed the Prince Consort were accompanied by the Naomi Alice, the Prime of Wales, and the Count of Flanders, and were attended by the Duchess al Atholl, the Hon. Ho- ratio Stopford, lisjot•General the Ham Marley Grey, Colonel Boldulph, Lieutenant-Colossi the Hon. D. de Boa, ENING, JUNE 21 and Lieut. Koppel ; Major Burnell was in attendance on the Count of Mandan. ..... ----- - ----. The Queen and Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Earl of St. Germans, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Cutlerosse, Viscount Torrington, Lord George Lennox, General Sir Edward Bowater, and Major-General Wylde. The royal party left the palace in four of the Queen's carriages, escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons, for the private station at Vauxhall of the London and South Western Railway. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by Colonel Count de Moerkerke, left Buckingham Palace at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Frogmore, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent. A deputation from Ramsgate, on the Passing Tolls Bill, bad an interview with the Right Hon. I'. Milner Gibson yester day at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputation WAS introduced by Mr. Deed's, M.P., and consisted of Maas. Cuttler, Daniel, Curling, and Webster. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Bengal, "The Government of Rea p! r. Shurruffutoonissa," was heard, and judgment given by Dr. Lushington. An appeal from the Cape of Good Hope, "Stanford v. Brunette," was commenced. The lords present were Lord Kingsdown, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E Ryan, Sir L. Peel, ►nd Sir J. Colville. Despatches from the Governors of the North American provinces and British Columbia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, who arrived at Buckingham Palace last evening, from Germany, left the palace at an early hour this morning to meet her Majesty and the Prince Consort at the camp at Aldershott. The Duke and Duchess of Sotonsayor, Grandees of Spain, have &mired at Maurigy's Hotel, from Madrid. The Earl of Pembroke arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Saturday, and left the following day foe Paris. The Countess of Malmesbury has for the last fortnight been confined to the house by the measles, and the parties of the noble earl and countess are i❑ conse quence postponed. The countess has now regained both health and strength. Itaroneea North will give a morning party at Putney-hill to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Primer Mary and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, on Saturday, July 7. Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant's first ball is fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 4th proximo ; and the second on Wednesday, the 11th proximo. Mrs. Tait, the wife of the Lord Bishop of Londoo, gave birth to a daughter, at Fulham Palace, on Saturd►y afternoon last. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff gave a grand entertainment but even ing at the residence of the legation, on Carlton House terrace, to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary, and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelita. Their Serene Highnesses Prince John and Prince Jules of Schleswig. Glucksburg were also present. The following were invited to meet their royal highnesses :—The Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl sad Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord John Manners, Dowager Lady Truro, Mr. and Lady Elisabeth Drummond, and Count Blucher. Colonel Home Puma and Lady Ger.ddine Somerset were in waiting on their Royal Higlinesaes the Duchess of Cambridge and the Pripet./ Mary. later in the evening the Countess Bernstein gave a concert, to which a select circle was invited. The Earl of Shaftesbury contradicts a statement that he was the author of the " religious profession clause" of the Census Bill. " I never heard of the clause," Nays his lordship, " until long after the introduction of the bill into the House of Commons. I now consider it to be impracticable. It will give, in many instances, no returns at all ; and, in many more, very fallacious returns. If made compulsory, it will be a perilous violation of religious liberty." After Sunday next, July 1, St. Paul'a Cathedral will be clamed for Divine worship, in order that the re arrangement of the choir and other works may proceed during the long days. . . We are requested to state that the special ser vices at Westminster Abbey closed on Sunday last._ The Leeds Mercury records the death on Sunday last of the Rev. Thomas Scales, a well-known dissenting minister of that town, in the 74th year of his age. Mr. S. P. Maneel, of Shre vrebury,writes "At half-past 11 last night (Saturday) I detected, in • break in the clouds to the north, a very considerable comet. It was distinctly visible to the naked eye, notwithstanding the brightness of the twilight in that part of the heavens. At midnight its nucleus was about 4 degrees above the horizon, and about the lame number west of north. The tail was clearly visible for 5 degrees, and might doubtless have been traced for more than double that distance bad it been darker. As this nu,y possibly prove to be the groat comet whose return has been so long expected, perhaps you will have the kindness to insert this notice for the benefit of more competent observers than myself, who may have been prevented from seeing it by the long prevalence of unfavourable weather." Ou Saturday another action for damages against a railway was decided at Dublin, when damages to the amount of 500/. were given. The plaintiff was a governess in the family of Colonel White, M.P., of Woodlands, and the defendants the Midland Great Western Railway Coon. pany. The cause of action occurred in a collision on the line last November, whereby the plaintiff was cut on the face and was so much shaken in her nervous system as not to be able to attend to her duties. The company, on learning the amount of the injury she received, consented to a verdict of 5001. The court and Jury expressed themselves gratified with the promptness and liberality with which the claim was met. The Journal du Havre says :—" Among the pas sengers who two days ago arrived at Dieppe from England were twentysis Irishmen, who were on their way to Rome to enlist in the Pope's army ; but as their passports were not in onler, they were sent up to Paris to be placed at the disposition of the prefect of police." The Corriere Mercantile, of Genoa, states from Bologna that the trial of the Very Rev. M. Ratta, vicar of the diocese, for contempt of the government on the °m aim of the late festival of the constitution, took place on the !Ist The public prosecutor proposed to the court a sen tence of 42 months' imprisonment and 2,500(r. fine. The ease was postponed. On the 20th the tribunal of Forli con demned Father Serbian', superior of the college, to one year's Imprisonment and 2,000 fr. fine for the same offence. A Paris correspondent of thu Brussel'. lade pendanee slates that M. Mario has been engaged at the Theatre Italians*, for the sum of 00,0001 r. for the season. A letter from Coburg says :—" Preparations are being made for the reception of Prince Allred of Great Britain, who will shortly arrive here nod live alternately at Coburg and at Gotha. The reigning duke not having any children, Prin.). Alfred, his nephew, is his presumptive heir." . . The 29th anniversary of the accession of the King of the Belgians is to be celebrated is the corning month with more than onlinary pomp• . . The Etoile Beige contains a report of a very nu merous meeting of officers of the civic guard from all parts of Belgium for the purpose of making arrangement.' for participating in the n►tional rifle shooting in England. Un fortunately, however, it appears that foreign marksmen are to be admitted on the consideration that their names he in• scribed.* least twenty days beforehand, or on the payment of 62 frame as an entrance fee. As the meeting takes pima at the 9th of July, the time allowed for the inscription has expired, sad the Belgian committee express their regret that they era thus involuntarily prevented from taking par► In the proceedings. The central committee of the Bele 80. ciety have issued a circular to all the members, urging that, a certain number of picked men should be sent to Wirulde doe. p6o. ivo LATEST' INTELLIGENCE. THR INSURRECTION IN SICILY. It appears that In the evening of the 21st Gari baldi held at Palermo a council of war, to which all the chiefs of corps were summoned, and which was attended among others by Colonels Me dici, Turr, and Bitio, and Captain Orsini. At that meeting it was unanimously decided that the insurrectional army, after having collected all the necessary material, should march on Messina. The volunteers taken to the island by Colonel Medici are said to have been all selected with the greatest care, and among them are a number of officers and non-commissioned officers of engineers and artillery. It was believed that the insurrectional army would commence its march on Messina about the 28th inst. An insurgent camp has been formed at Bar celona, four leagues from Messina, consisting of 10,000 men, and deserters to it from the Neapo litan army were increasing every day. These troops were ready to attack Mesaina as soon as Garibaldi should give the order. FRANCE. The Moniteur of to-day contains a decree pro roguing the session of the Legislative Corps until the 14th July. The Moniteur also contains the appointment of an agent of the Ministry for Foreign AfFairs at Marseilles in the person of M. Gaillard de Ferry, and the nomination of M. Fleury as Consul- General at London, the latter gentleman at present holding a similar post at Barcelona. PARIS, TUESDAY. In consequence of the death of Prince Jerome, all the gueata of their Imperial Majesties left Fon tainebleau yesterday. The court will remain there until the end of June. During July the Emperor andEmpresa will take up their residence at St. Cloud. The Emperor has renounced his intended voyage to Plombihrea. The visit to Nice and Chambery is adjourned until the mouth of September. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jose 25. The budget contains the following items : Ministry of Police, 2 3-5 millions of florins ; ditto Foreign Affairs, 2 2-5 millions of florins ; ditto Public Worship, 4 millions of florins. The Austrian Gazette is informed that Signor Petrulla's programme of reforms for Naples in cludes a general amnesty, a popular cabinet, a con stitutional form of government, and a free press. The Wanderer announces that Brambillo and Mandolfo have been released from prison. VIENNA, Jcigx 20. Besides the Colonel Lowenthal, who already dis charges the functions of military commissioner at the Austrian embassy iu Paris, a chef d'eecadron of the staff will be added as military attacluS. It is said that great improvements are about to be introduced in the Austrian army, after the French system. The Marquise de Moustier is about to proceed to Brussels on a visit to her parents. The French ambassador will remain at his post. TRIEM, Jun 26. The statement of the Turin journals that the captain of the port of Pols had compelled a mer chant vessel sailing under Sardinian coloursto hoist the pontifical flag is incorrect. The captain only explained the new Austrian regulations relative to ahips belonging to the pro vinces annexed to Piedmont, which requires that no vessels from Tuscany, Modena and the Lega tions shall hoist the Sardinian flag in an Austrian port. These regulations, however, do not compel such vessels to hoist the flag of any other nation. THE GREAT EASTERN. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY. The Marco Polo has arrived here. She landed mails and eight passengers. On the 20th instant, iu Lit. 47.48 north, lon. 22.50 west, she passed the Great Eastern, steaming very fast. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nox an owl ooi PARIS, MONDAY EVEYING. The Constitntimnet, Pays, and Petrie contain no , crological articles, encircled with a black border, announcing the death of Prince Jerome Bonaparte, the last surviving brother of the great Napoleon. The Opinion Nationale has the following testi monial, signed by M. Gueronet : The last relic of a glorious epoch—associated while yet young with the splendours of the first empire, which he de fended at Waterloo as an heroic soldier, it was Prince Jerome's lot, by a marvellous change of fortune, to see his family restored to honours and power, ho all the while re maining what he had been—a child of 'B9, passionately de voted to the glory and liberty of his country. His voice —always listened to—was ever on the side of moderation. A friend of free discussion, he lent an efficacious support to the difficult tusk of founding the Opinion Nutionak. Amidst the many honours which will be paid to his me mory, we here tender the obscure but sincere homage of our profound gratitude. The fact mentioned by the Opinion Nationale that the deoeased prince, in the last days of his old age, interested himself in the foundation of a liberal journal, was not, I believe, generally known. All the theatres are closed this evening. The body of the Prince will be removed from Villegenis to the Palais Royal, where it will lie in state. An extraordinary council of ministers was convoked this day at Fontainebleau for the purpose, no doubt, of discussing the question of the funeral. There tan be little doubt that the Emperor will have his uncle interred at St. Denis. An imperial decree of last year assigned that cathedral as the burial-place of the imperial family. It is well known that he wishes to see the remains of Napoleon I. transferred from the Invalides to that sepulchre of the Kings of France. Prince Jerome, who was proud of his office of guardian of the imperial tomb, was understood to be opposed to any disturbance of it as long as ho lived, but now the Emperor's wish, that the founder of his dynasty should lie in the vault which he is represented as selecting for himself by a painting on one of the panes of glass iu the cathedral, will probably be carried into effect. The removal, so far as public opinion may be supposed to entertain any scruples about it, would be facilitated by the prior inter ment there of Prince Jerome. It would be only natural that the two brothers should lie side by side —Napoleon I. being placed in the vault intended to be the first of a long series, devoted to the recep tion of a new line of sovereigns. . All the guests at Fontainebleau left to-day, and the court will remove this evening to St. Cloud for the days of mourning. It is rumoured that a difficulty in the way of the Emperor's desire to bury his family at St. Denis is that Prince Jerome, continuing his opposition in this respect after death, has expressed in his will a desire to be interred in the Invalided. The Bourse, notwithstanding three fine days and a decidedly favourable change in the coru market, wheat having fallen lfr. the hectolitre, and flour 2fr. the sack within a week, was very heavy. Lord John Russell's speech on the Swiss question was the theme of a good deal of anxious discussion, The Rente fell 35c. for cash, and 30c. for account, closing at 68fr. 40c. and 68fr. 46c. Mobilier fell Ur. In railways there was very little busin e m done. The Orleans line fell Mr., and most of the others lfr. 25c. Besiersand Oraissessac rose 10fr„ There was a great crowd all day at the Bank of France to subscribe for the new railway obligations. A Marseilles letter says : The French government has just purchased 161,000 her. tolitres of wheat in this market. Of that quantity 80,000 are to be delivered immediately, and the remainder very shortly. The whole is said to be intended for the military storehouses in the Nord. As soon as these purchases became known, a rise of about lfr. the hectolitre took place. General Count de Rumigny, one of Louis Philippe's aides-de-camp, died yesterday at his r esidence at Maisonrouge. SARDINIA. (fox ova OWN CORNXIIPONDUCT.) TURIN, Joss 21. The provisional government of Sicily has sent Count Michele Amari, a Sicilian gentleman who has resided for some years at Genoa, on an official mission to Count Cavour. The new envoy, who has been an exile for twelve years, must not be confounded with Signor Michele Amari, who be longs to a different Sicilian family, and has been in exile sixteen years for writing a history of the Sicilian Vespers, which delighted everybody except the Neapolitan government. This eminent writer lived for a long time at Paris, where he had the reputation of being one of the best Orientalists of our day. lie is now a Professor of Arabic in Central Italy. Count Michele Amari is respected both for his firmness and for his honesty. He has a daughter of remarkable literary attainments, and a son who is eminent as a criminal lawyer, and who now holds the chair of jurisprudence here. On his arrival at Turin, yesterday, Count Amari had an audience of Count Cavour, but what passed has not transpired. The position of the Sardinian government is a most difficult one. It has to resist on the one side the impatient patriots who would compromise it by involving it in revolutionary movements, and on the other those who would have it assist its ene mies, the despotic governments. For this reason it is often ferociously attacked by the extreme parties. More extraordinary still, it is sometimes ac cused by a section of the republicans with doing nothing, at the same time that another section of the same party accuses it (as Lainartiue does, for instance) of disturbing Italy by its ambi tion. Recently it has been much complained of by some Neapolitans, who have come here a second time from Florence to urge it to assist in spreading the Sicilian revolution to the continent. Count Cavour replied that revolutions ought to be home made, not imported, and that their spontaneity is their only justification. The Neapolitans know that France and England have repeatedly and almost threateningly urged better government on the new King ; they have seen 11a poleon's and Victor Emmanuel's proclamations to Italy ; they I have heard of the great battles fought in the name of Italian emancipation ; and now they know that Sicily has freed herself. They cannot have better counsels, or better examples, if they really desire to be differently governed. If the kingdom of Naples were in a state of revolution the Sardinian government would know how to and would act as the love it bears this national cause and its duty as an Italian power would dictate. Colonel Comma, whom I have mentioned in re cent letters, and who, according to some journals, has left with another expedition, is stilkat Turin. Our Ministry of War is actively taking advan tage of this interval of peace to recruit and im prove the army, which is about double what it was in 18a8. There will be eight regiments of artil lery. By the beginning of next mouth the infantry will be provided with rifles. It is said that an artillery officer has effected such au improvement in powder as to make half the usual charge sufficient. Our powder has hitherto been of a very inferior quality. The Savoyard officers and private soldiers who have passed over to France are beginning to be very discontented with the change. The men thought they were going home, but instead of that they are to go to Lyons. The other evening there was a tight among them of so serious a character that litany were wounded and three killed. When they belonged to us they were models of discipline, and everybody is asto nished at their present conduct. One cause of soreness among the officers is this—during the last few months, through the increase in our army, a great many promotions have taken place, and in these the Savoyards participated. Now it is said that the French government will not recognise any steps conferred since March 24. This seems to them a sad contrast to the great advantages so freely promised before the voting. On the evidence of merchant vessels which were present at the capture of the Utile and the Ameri can clipper by the Fulininatite, our government and the American consul have come to the con clusion that it was an act altogether at variance with the rtegulations of maritime law. The Fulmi nante ought to have followed those vessels till they had passed beyond the mare fiberota, as the law yers call it, and had entered the Neapolitan waters ; then she might have onlensl them to lay to, and have seized them on finding their cargoes to be irregular. Accordingly, if the Neapolitan govern ment refuses togive them upsome act of open hostility may be looked for. On the subject of Sicily I may add, before closing my letter, that now the Sicilians have declared for annexation to the Sar dinian kingdom, Signor Depretis, the well-known deputy of the parliamentary Left, formerly Gover nor of Brescia, will be sent to the island as royal commissioner. Count Cavour invariably acts in a conciliatory spirit, which his adversaries very often do not reciprocate. We shall see how Signor Depretis will vote about the loan. Last year he voted against the loan required by the government for carrying on the war. It was pretended by the Left that they desired war more strongly than Count Cavour ; but one part of them united with the retrograde Right in refusing the government the maws of carrying ou the war. These antecedents and the partiality of certain extreme men for Signor Depretia bring in question the wiatloni of selecting him as royal commissioner. The sort of now want ed for such a post is one who is superior to party spirit, end who would have the courage on occasion to °Name the extreme democratic party. Ido not 111.1e:111 to say, however, that the services of this poli tician should have been rejected, if he made a clear declaration beforehand that in the interests of the country, and on the evidence of facts that had hap pened contrary to his anticipations, he accepted, and would loyally tarry out, Count Cavour's policy. Just as I am closing my letter I receive a letter from Genoa, stating that news has arrived there that the King of Naples, having taken the advice of those learned in the law, is convinced that the capture of the two vessels was illegal, and is in clined to yield to the protests, but that there is a party in the court which counsels bini to resist, and trust to the chapter of accidents. We (Morming Chroiticte) have received a ilexpatch from Naples, announcing the following most important facts. The letter addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Naples ass read on the 22nd to the King's council. Fruncui H., being indisposed, woe not present. After the content. of the Emperor's letter were wilts known, the following resolutions were voted by the council: -- 1. The adoption of II Clll.lstittltiOn ; 2. A general amnesty to be granted ; 3. A total change of ministry ; 4. Indian alliance with Piedmont ; 5. The deg, with the urns of Naples, to b e adopted. We are assured that these rem. lutions were voted by a majority of nine aguinst three. The Chronicle further says :—" By a *pedal telegram, through the Submartne and British Telegraph Company, we have received a desputch from Naples. COD . veptig important intelligence. The King has aceeded to the proposition. adsipted and reoommended by the majority of the council. His Majesty was still seriously ill." I