The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1861. valuable health, to complete that alliance which will tend to that result, and tend to further alliances which 1 trait win be advantageous to tutus* ages (Hear, , hear.) What are our general rclatioos with beam I base already stated in this house, and that declaniticia 1 remeber well was received with pet favour by this home. V ie have acted re that declaration, and we hie always communicated con. fidentsally with Austria, Heade, ail Prulais with regard to any total, .4 Euni We have commune - sited our opinions to them and the, have cummuniusted their opinions to tia. On ...me pi,oxims we are at entire accordance, end on ethers we eaters...is isriem ° pawl,. • b u t a u " not hi ng ja oar mistime with those 'weer' which should make any of thent;eistertain my feeling oi estrangement or hostility to as fllear. heir.) dir, I can adz seal b saying that sly hope awl nay belief is, that setwahel.auhng th e d ee • gen which menace es, the upset eras more dark WSW U m , ; r.twit6slaar4ng , the poem el Europe may be (Herr, hear.) It wi ll be fir Austria to petite Cl/VI with H _as it is with other power. to settle their owe in altar& It will be for Prussia and Howu to tattle those drillcult interval quest ions which are now waeupelag their attention. I lot Ido trust that wine of the demon which menat o ite will lead to tual hostilities. (Hear.) I ant 0.4 LI n4u ine enough to thick that there cuukl be a great war io Fairope w whel ould take no peat. I have a C.4).1Ct101l that though au- 1 1 a oat might begun without us. 'god all hough we ml, fat do part' that we had no contra 10 it, yet in thecouNe of that war evcuts might take ploe which might scri.ouly DWI/4.V the irolcpetsleoce of nations in which we take the eleepoa inter...a that we should Ice able to keep free from I ...nti.ll. - Atioas•a l .Linger. For these reason% therefore, I pray met earnestly that pea,- may lee routinized. Whatever the right honourable , gentleman nay think of the inutility or inability of my civilities, I can only say that such as they are they will 1.4 devoted to that purpose, which is almost a •icred purpose in my i•yea. (Hear. hear.) 1 will nowlesay • few wont• on the anwahnetit toad. by the hoc. gentlenian. I will say at once that it ta perfectly clear that no meestue could have Leen brought forward with • hope of its being carrel, ta. cept • measure of a very tritliug character. I believe, fur my ono port, that it it better for government to leave that queatiou eistuelv untouched than to brim forward • mei. sure a hich would emote great disappointment, and would occupy a gnat deal of valuable time without say valuable result Ito the question of reform I have always been afraid of compromes. In altering the Reform what is hat is certain, while it is nut no cedes as to the equivaleuts on the other side. (Hear, bear.) Therefore, sir. I come to the opinion which I have fur eight year,. entertaiued, that in order to carry a reform bill that would he se-telly of use to the country you met admit a great number of the working classes -(hear, hear)—aud in order to carry such a reform bill there should be a great all kimono.: breeze of public opinies to enable it t o carry it in this house. and easily to title it °ter the liar of the llocote .4 Lords. (Hear.) Now I come to consider what was the state of public opiniou during the last year. The right hon. gentleman ha. said that the great Lust of the oppoeition against the bill ,AlllO from gentle meo on this side the house. MY bon. frieud the chairmen of) committees was one. I happeued once to be in the borough of Snuthwark when he made • speech to his con stituents, and he maid he was in favour of a fit. franchise. Well, I thought if I proposed a fd. clause I should not be going too far. (A laugh.) That gentleman spoke against the measure; but whattortiewu more extraordinary was, that my boo. friend the member for Edinburgh (Mr. Bieck) should speak against the extension of the franchise. or almost against any franchise on • broad basis. Why if such speedo-I lost been made in Mil, by a member repre senting a grant body of constituents, theme would Kaye been what are called in America " iudignation niect• lop." (A Leigh.) There would have been meetings of constituente protesting that they were misrepresented OD the subject. But nut • bit of it. The country wasquite dead oo the subject, fur although my hon. friend had to go through home severe schooling by bas constituents, that miy on the annuity tax and not the Reform Bill. (Hear, hear.) Well, then, 1 my that after the governments of Lord Aberdeen, Lord Derby led the government of which I was the head had failed, it would be a vain attempt ; and I must come to the conclusion that at the present time—anal I speak only of the present tire there is no such disposition iu the country 114 would juatify the government in pro pining a measure for a reform in the representation. The country has the matter in its own hand, ; it is not yet too late for "aidiguation meetings," if they think primer to declare that they arc bent upon reform, and that they are satisfied the country wanm reform. If the just ex pectations of the people demand it, it is only necessary fur the hon. gentlenuiu who moved the amendment to take the place of niy noble friend, and carry • reform bill entirely to his aatiefactioa. Well, e'er, with regard to my I own personal part on this subject, surely I have had enough of it not to be very eager to introduce another bill. I began with a motion on this subject in 11 4 19—1 am sorry to say 4 1 pars ago. I had an examination in this bowie with regent to the corruption in the borough of Gnunpound. At that time °pillion became more favourable to reform. Mr. Canning. though he omosed me in an eloquent and brilliant speech in the year Dr 22, yet at the end of thnt speech gave air great hope and encampment that if I went oa 1 should imam(' in my endeavour. Accordingly I in process of slate , Lunt Grey was placed at the head of the government. who had been • consistent advocate of parlia mestary reform, and he desired those who had been asso ciated with him to COOSider this question and to frame • bill. My right boa. friend the member fur Carlisle, Lord Durham, Lord Howlswoughaod myself, were siecordingly app. peeled fee the porpow. pry oo hed • bill, and after a great Amok in I:Che we were enabled to carry that Pleasure. Having dee that, is it any mortiticatioa to me to find that at the end of thirty year. the country is so well satisfied with that hill that they do not r-squire anything else 4" Hear, hear," and opposition laughter.) Shculd I feel it any great humiliation to me that I have been fortunate enough, beeped my expectations, to find that the amend ments which were then required in our constitution aud auteticeed by Lord Grey's great authority have been so sue• reasful, have given such satisfaction at the great seats of industry, that at present people prefer to think of other subjects, foreign affairs, commercial treaties, church rates, sad other questions of detail, rather than lend their support to lay plan of oepsic reform. All I can my, therefore, te, that when any further ainendruent is pro. peed. I Lope it will go—as all the tills I have had the honour to introduce have gone - upon the principle of making rather • seppleineet to that bill, and following its priaciples, than of attempting to reverse system of repre• entitle which was then es tabl ished, with the nearly uni• venal approbation and amend of the country. At all events, for this year certaiuly, my opinion is that the better course will be to give our attention to those various subjects of amendment her Meetly has recommended to us in her gracious speech from the throne. They will oc• copy mast usefully the tine of this house, and N the right honourable gestlentea, after having read these pipets on foreign affairs, wishes far further explimatioes free me el that subject I shall awap be ready to give them, without attempting to introduce a sew system of dipkmisey • feeling that it will give peat security to thin coeatey that the government Mould be their organ la foreign ',aria..., and that it will be • great security to the govinnoneet of the country to know that they have the sup poet of tie people in the sentiments they express and the opinions they mental°. ((chen.) Mr. BiUGHT he would thank his has, friend the member for Heights.° fur the course he had taken in briagisg that question to which the Dottie lord had en recently alluded before the house. His lemosuskile (mod dal it Iv • speech which warn fall et matter, awl which had very favourably impressed the bonen He (Mr. Belicht) was glad, too, that that speech had drawn from the uible heal the true oonfeesion—lie premed the latest was the true coshed/Ai—of hi. sentiments us that questioe. Ile would, however, rather • gond deal not have bent that speech from the noble lord, NMI be felt a grief that he mold wit express in being compelled to uadentand the wilds torsi meant precisely what be said. The arable toed meniaded ban of caws often exhibited in the eontaseciel wield, where men who had bores for many years obi/prides eel pecuniary burdens which th e y were unable to edify, telly called their meditate together, acknowledpid• stale of hankruptey, and felt a perfect hamlet's, in having got rel, is some way or the other, o f the bed iacurred flew, bear," and laught:el i crs= precisely the knee ha which the .obis lest had mildewed the Mere to-sight. He (Mr. Bright) would adult there was some foree in the atatement as to the datable's( the whit lord's position in handling this question sad brines' it to a successful issue. He bad seen the noble lord shed tears on that very .1.4 when withdrawing • reform bill, when that evening he had punned precisely the same course with • jocularity la laugh) that was absolutely contemptuous to those who had pLeal him is that very seat Is ceder that he might advocate that very mea sure. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Bright) should not, homes, he felt it utterly lemeath the feeling he had with regard to this question. mu. mpt to lay bold .4 the caddy. lord, sod show him when he thought the noble lord had tided with retried to this question in a hostile and unfriendly mirit, because, notwitlistariding what the noble lonl heal said that evenieg, be might again find that question of use to his political objects. But be would turn rather to the boos., and ask them what was their poaition with to this question, for that mattered more to Eagla=l to the people of England, than the oesisteacy of any particular member of the house, however old in the table service or ernineut he might he. The boa. member then entered Into • detailed history of the successive attempts to iatro dibe Reform Dille in various sessions during the lent ten years, maintaining that the members of the present government bed deeply and repeatedly pledged themselves to do everything in their power to carry some large measure of that description. Ad mitting that no extensive agitation sow existed on the question. he appealed to the boos whether it was wit letter to pass a hill framed on just principles, and diecuaoal with uslninesa and deliberation, than to wait notil some violent measures were forced upon them by public ipinion in a penis' of discontent and excitement. The howc• then divided— For the amendoteut Aphid it 129-83 This revolt was received with some cheers from the sup- porters .4 the motio n . The oiliest woo then agreed to, and a committee was appointed to draw it up. The house adjourned at Ave minutes before Ism DRIVRAL PAWS -- ORS 13111LIMAn DAY. TVESDAT. rk—Aibilidass as Millsolai, 5•30; ditto by some tickets, 415 ; Wei *ltem Ita SECOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. CILIIIIttW .4. IO.I Co. hem a limp samortment et leemmtbeim by the meet ildeemed makers, at peed, reduced yeteee.-111. Iteemt.etreet. gbe erPrefig‘• TO ODRIVIPONDENTS. Astreillesseette 13tended for "The Express Lon'on Evade( nut he d the aloe, 10, Yourerle.street, be Two as the da of publication. .I!.!L_TILUCIAT. TRm Evirduel. THE HI VAW lirenan. J. Rmuuham, Howe. Chippendale. and lincludoos. Mir Y. Istirllng.—And QUER \ LADYBIRD DII KR CHILDREN. nu, Harlequin and a Honer on VIPs. Herr Cuie, ItirLecioroqu Jibs Y. Wright, Ulu IL Waukee. ntYCßra THIS KV11:1111.10, RI V llCA 7 47. — ieeere.lfeehter. Beall Potter. trot Mani* Nut 11..0 In.l the pantomime, called ItOBIN4ON •lOR or. IlArloitun Friday, sad The Klee of the Cerribbe• Islands. Motet returayea .k Nun.. M. truatUerre, Mr. A. l'untA. n. JAYSITS._ Tnto Emma, MY WiIigiIJTMTENT AL—THE. ISLE OP ST. Meara.A. Wlgsai and Emery: Mra. Buckingham Whits. —Ana EN DY NtION. Marra C. Young snit Belmure Minna St. Camedierbork sad Romer.—Commence at hull-peat 7. BRITANNIA. TWO !WYE TB! PZIYCKAID Tin OCIRP. Mews. Pitt, Perri, Jess Los k. Ikey. saol Newham. 11.11Ie C. Stepson, MI=A. Dowsisa Mrs. W. Onmilord. —And A ME,4AoE FROM THE IVA. Maws. Beytheilla red Ssaytleson. Mrs. E. Yaruold. 5101 WATZI AT lancer BRIDGE. TEMI DAT —lllsenlag, llt Mao .. Afternoon, nh. ToAlesimp—Monsbas. le. . . Afternoon, Oh. 3het. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6. Tux debate on the Address in the House of Commons last night was perhaps more interesting than could have been expected from the singularly cold and negative character of the Royal Speech. As the Address from the Throne referred to only a few well-known facts, and abstained from any definite avowal of policy, there was scarcely any basis for direct partisan opposition ; and opposition in the usual sense of the term there was none, the only amendment proposed being one from the Ministerial aide of the House. The short speeches made by the mover and seconder of the Address were in substance at all events more than usually good. Unfortunately Sir EDWARD COLE BR001(1'S voice is so feeble as to be at times almost inaudible, but the sterling sense of his observations gained the ear of the House, while Mr. Paver, though a new member, spoke not only with ease and self-possession, but tersely and to the point. As usual, the opening speeches touched on the more salient points of the Royal Address, the mover dealing chiefly with foreign, and the seconder with home affairs. Both, however, referred to the important questions of retrenchment and reform, though as the tempo rary representatives of a Government that has appa rently abandoned both, it was perhaps scarcely to be expected they could hold out much hope of anything being done with regard to either. Sir EDWARD COLZBROOKeB apology for the ministe rial neglect of Reform was the weakest and worst part of his speech. In talking of the alienation between the middle and working classes which the recent strikes are said to have pro duced, he simply repeats the groundless Tory slanders of last session, while " the " state of the Continent" is if possible a still more threadbare and worthless excuse for the neglect of home duties. Mr. PAccr was more to the point on the subject of retrenchment, his sug gestion with regard to the estimates being a sensible and practical one. He justly says that the reduction of the estimates must be left very much to the heads of departments, as private members lack the special and intimate knowledge which alone would enable them to undertake this task with effect. The Member for Nottingham warmly eulogised the French Treaty aa having already produced the most satisfactory results, and as destined in its filWre working not only to strengthen the friendly union of the two nations, but largely to augment the prosperity of both. And as a large manufacturer and practical man of busi ness, Mr. Peon is entitled to speak with authority on this head. A Royal Speech that is welcomed with Con servative smiles, and pronounced " quite unexcep tionable" by the leader of the Opposition, would hardly be likely to satisfy all who sit on the Liberal benches. Such a cold and sterile docu ment may conciliate the enemies of the Ministry, but it will in the same proportion help to provoke and alienate their friends. Earnest Reformers will naturally ask what is the use of having a Liberal Government at all if they shrink from the assertion of Liberal principles, and decline to in troduce Liberal measures. The absence of all definite allusion to Retrenchment in the Royal Speech, and the total omission of Parliamentary Reform, naturally enough excited a strong feeling of disappointment and indignation amongst the more earnest Liberal members of the House ; and the Member for Brighton undertook to express this feeling last night. Mr. Wurre moved as an amendment to the Address, "That her Majesty's " Government should on an early day introduce a " measure for the extension of the Parliamentary " franchise, in fulfilment of the promises given " when they came into office ;" and it cannot be denied that there is just and reasonable ground for such a motion. On no subject is the present Government more deeply pledged than that of Parliamentary Reform, and on none have their supporters below the gangway extended to them a larger patience and more generous confidence. It may suit Mr. DISRAELI and his followers to regard the fulfilment of solemn and reiterated pledges as "an erroneous interpretation of the sense of " honour," but Mr. WHITE and his friends cannot be expected to take this lenient view of the matter. They justly repudiate with indignation the slight and unworthy Ministerial excuses for the violation of a solemn pledge and the neglect of a public duty. And though Mr. WHITE gained comparatively little Parliamentary support for his amendment, the grounds on which it was brought forward will secure a large amount of sympathy out of doom. The Government ought never to have exposed themselves to the just re proaches addressed to them last night by the Mem ber for Brighton and the Member for Birming ham. A little more courage and consistency would have been true wisdom at a time when their only chance of success lies in the hearty sup port of the whole Liberal party. Mr. DISRAELI, true to the unlucky star he has followed so faithfully of late, attacked the Cabinet on its strongest point, the only point perhaps on which it is absolutely invul nerable—that of its foreign policy. Like many other great artists, he forms an erroneous estimate of his powers and productions, imagining that his most conspicuous failures are in reality his greatest works. ha foreign policy was the very weakest point of the D►RBY Government, and Mr. DIMRA ELI naturally refers to it with the greatest pride. He lives under the delusion that foreign affairs are his peculiar forte ; and his wonderful speech about exploded and imaginary telegrams at the opening of last session was a remarkable instance of this strange hallucination. Nothing has at all equalled that bold flight of fancy until his speech last night, which was a favourable example of his highest and purely ideal style. Profaning to deal with facts and arguments, with living realities and actual event; it was nevertheless from first to last "of imagination all compact." The right hon. gentleman undertook to review the European events of the last six months, and to evolve their logical results ; but his history was fictitious and his reasoning purely imaginative. His affected ignorance of what had really taken place was only equalled by his minute know ledge of what had never happened. At the outset of his speech, for example, he com plains that notwithstanding the free publication of papers and despatches, the country is totally ignorant as to what the foreign policy of the Government really is. He is quite in the dark, thirsting for information, and anxiously asks what the principle of the ministerial policy might be Now the leader of the Opposition is probably the only man in the country who has any doubt what ever on this head. If he is really as ignorant as he represents himself to be he certainly stands alone. Anyone might give him the information ho so anxiously desires to receive. On no point have the Government been more clear, decided, and explicit than in the enunciation of the principles guiding its foreign policy ; and those principles have been acted on with uniform vigour and con sistency. This is the very point on which the conduct of the Government admitted of no doubt, and on which, as Mr. WHITE admits, it secures' the hearty sympathy and support of even its most dissatisfied adherents on the Liberal benches. In a word, the foreign policy of the Government, in its principles and details, is familiar to all the world, and everybody knows it except Mr. Dui- RAZE,. His utter ignorance of what is, is how ever atoned for by his precise and definite knowledge of what is not. Having failed to dis cover the policy which the Government has always avowed and acted on, he confidently assigns them a policy which they not only never adopted, but have formally and repeatedly dis claimed. The real principle on which the Government has from the first acted, as all the world knows, is that of non-intervention— of leaving the Italians to settle their own affairs as they deemed best. The policy Mr. DIMRAELI attri butes to them, and on which his elaborate scheme of terrible alternatives rests, is that of a United Italy. Everybody except Mr. DISRAELI knows that the Government to the last hesitated to adopt this view, and only relinquished its cherished con victions in favour of two Italian kingdoms at the eleventh hour, and in obedience to the higher policy of non-intervention. Yet Mr. DmitAsu solemnly charges them with having risked all possible evils and calamities—the balance of power, the peace of Europe, the stabi lity of thrones, nay, even the civilization of the world, for the sake of this very principle which they from the first repudiated. It is difficult to reply seriously to such a lu dicrously irrelevant charge, and Lord JOHN Rrt4 NELL was entitled to retort that, so far as the right hon. gentleman's thirst for information related to actual events, it might be gratified at once by inspecting the papers to be laid on the table last evening. For the rest, the terri ble alternatives and dilemmas ho had conjured up, being purely the work of imagination, neither needed nor admitted of any definite or practical reply. The noble FOREIGN Ssearreav recalled the attention of the House to the great point at issue by asking the leader of the Opposition whether the principle of non-intervention on which the Government had acted was, in his view, right or wrong ; whether he and his friends were prepared to accept it or not. The country knows well enough that the Conser vatives dislike this principle, and are indignant at its successful application. Mr. Disa.aaLi revealed the true animus of the party last night by conjuring up a number of purely imaginary, but awful-looking, objections against the formation of a united Italian Kingdom. So far, his speech is valuable as a useful warning. Ebt Court. The statement that the Queen intends spending bar birthday this year at Balmoral is without foundation. It is understood that the queen will hold a drawing -I'OOE4 at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the 21st of March nut. The Queen went yesterday to the House of Lords, to open the scion of Pi:Bement with a speech from the throne. Her Majesty returned to Buckingham Palace at 3 o'clock, sad was received by the Lord Chamberlain and Vice. Chamberlain. The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Princess Alice and Princess Helena, honoured the performance at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence in the evening. In attendance were the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Horatia Stafford, Lord de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieut.- Colossi the Hon. U. de Rea. Lord de Tabley has succeeded Lord Rivers u Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Cavendish has suc ceeded Sir William finite u Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. A deputation of guardians sod directors of the poor on "the Mimicsa operation of the laws of settlement and chargeability on the poor nod their dwellings and their in justice to the ratepayers," had an interview with Sir George C. Lewis yesterday, at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Mr. A. Lamed, M.P., Mr. W. Gilbert, Mr. John Lock M.P. Mr. James Harvey (chairman of West London Unice), Mr. John Blachford (chairman of Fulham Union), Mr. Thomas H. Walter (chairman of Chelsea Union), Mr. W. R. Grommith. Mr. J. Perry, Mr. S. P. Colman, Mr. W. Payee, Mr. George Newman, Rev. Mr. ICO4II, Christ Church, St. George's East ; Mr. James Butcher, Mr. C. Collier, Mr. Robert Warwick (vice-chairman City of Union Union), and Rev. B. C. hangar, rector of Shadwell. - The judicial committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. Au appeal from Canada, "The Bank of British North America v. Cuvilli " was part heard. The lords present were Lord Cranworih, Lord Kingsdown, and the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner. . _ _ I)esps --- tcl;elsreereoeTvedrtthe Coloniaboffice yesterday from the Governors of Malta and Mauritius. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the ('ape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, and the Lord High Comndaaioner of the lonian Islands. As always on these great occasions, her hiajesty, is opening parliament yesterday, wore robes of state, her dress being composed of silver tissue, striped with gold, and a superb train of crimmoti velvet, lined with ermine, and embroidered with gold, which was canieil by the ladies la waiting and two page'. On her head was a derni-crown of brilliants, and with it were worn to suit, a necklace, car riage, stomacher, and bracelets of diamonds. Sir F. H. Batburat has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Clarendon Park, near Malisbury. Major-General Angeretein has arrived at Mau rip's Hotel from Wetting Hall, Norfolk. M. Guilot has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris, on a visit to Gooend sod Mdme. Peri% Great preparations arc making at Rendlembam Hall, Dear Wickham-market, to celebrate the approaching majority of Lard Reodlesham. The festivities will com mence on &burley with a dinner. A family ball will take o goa on Tuesday, the 12th ; and a temente' ball is to follow on Thursday, the 14th. Saunders given the following particulars as to the religious constitution of the Irish beech at the present time :—" Eight out of twelve of the Irish common law judges are now Roman catholic*, including two of the three chiefs, viz., Chief Justice Monahan (the Chief Bann), Judges O'Brien, Fitzgerald, Ball, and Keogh, and Harem Hughes and Deasy. The new attorney-general being also • Roman catholic, it is not improbable that, ere long, the proportion will be increased te three-fourths instead of two. thirds." LATEST INTELLIGENCE ITALY. NAPLES, FEB. 4. Rumours of a surrender of Gaeta continue to be current. Prince Carignan is still at Mole di Gaeta. A reactionary conspiracy has been discovered in Naples, and has led to several arrests. Naples is tranquil. NAPLES, Firs. 2 Mai Marseilles). The remainder of the garrison of Naples has left for the camp before Gaeta. The city is guarded by militia. Fresh corps of foreign volunteers are being organised here. Numerous arrests have taken place in Calabria. PARIS, TVL4DAY Eviumfo. The Patna sap the news published by the Correspowiewia Atitografa, of Madrid, that the Pope is preparing to leave Rome, is completely false. SOME, Fra. 3 (ail Marseilles). General Goyon has sent French soldiers to occupy Correse. The Papal Zouaves have retired upon Monterondo. The Pope has given up the prisoners of war, excepting those who are Roman subjects. FRANCE. PARIS, WWNEBDAT. The Mositeur of to-day says :—" In yesterday's sitting of the Corps Legislatif, K Baroche laid on the table an exposition of the state of the empire, and most important diplomatic documents relating to the annexation of Central Italy to Piedmont and of Savoy and Nice to France, to Rome, Southern Italy, the Warsaw interview, the expedition to Syria, and the war in China." HUNGARY. PEEITH, TUVIDAT. Kemeny, in an address, exhorts the chiming to act with moderation. He says :—" The attitude assumed by the government until now produces distrust. Abuses have taken place, but the Aulic Chancellor, Baron Vay, merits the confidence of the country." MONTENEGRO. TeVIDAT Emma:. The Pays publishes news from the Herzegovina to the 3rd inst., announcing that massacres by the Montenegrins had taken place in Turkish territory, and that several Turkish villages had been burned. THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON Weinutraht v. The Royal Mail steamship Tyne, Captain Jellicoe, has arrived with the above mails. She brings 41 passengers, 2,6931. in specie, and up wards of 3,000 packages in cargo. The Magdalena, with the outward math, left St. Vincent for Rio Jauiero on the 21st ultimo, all well. Ou the 15th ult. the Tyne passed the outward French mail steamer ; on the 19th an English ship, showing third distinguishing pendant 6102, from Sydney to London ; on the 23rd she spoke the lalena. e Tyne was detained thirty-six hours at Rio, in consequence of the non-arrival of her Majesty's ship Buzzard with the River Plate mails, witch were placed on board that ship on account of the disarrangement of the Mersey's machinery. The Buzzard was to leave Rio in a few days for England. At Buenos Ayres railway matters progressed but slowly. Nothing had been done concerning the proposed line to Cordova. The inhabitants of San Juan rose en muse on the morning of Nov. 6, and attacked the house of the Governor Virabora, whom they massacred, together with his brother and about a dozen friends. This deed spread consternation throughout the republic, and a commission was dispatched by the government to San Juan. This commission was last heard of at San Louis. Considerable contracts in cattle and salted hides had been made at prices bearing some proportion to the rates ruling in England. The bank had changed their rate of in terest to 4 per cent., discounting at 6 per cent., the distinction hitherto observed between paper and specie being abolished. Exchange, 200,0001. sterling, passed per Tyne, at 655. to 665. per doubloon. Ounces varie d from 333 dols. to 3404 dols. ' to which they rose suddenly on receipt of vices of the revolution in San Juan. The last price on the Boise was 339 dole. At Pernambuco the arrivals of sugar had been small. Prices of cotton varied from 8.200 to 8.600 per arroba. There was no stock of hides. Discounts were at 10 per cent, for 30 day bills. At Bahia sugar was in demand at 2.100 to 2.350 per arroba. Cotton was unaltered. Coffee, none at market, and prices nominal. Exchange on London varied from 261 to 27. Transactions wore on a limited scale. AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS IN VENETIA. A letter from Venice, dated Jan. 30th, has the following : At the end of hie tour of inspection in Venetia, the Tyrol and nt Ai', the Fehlaugmeista von Benedek has just ' ad dressed his report to the Emperor ou the rate of the troops, fortification, and magazines. Lientenant•General the Baron Alfred von Henickstein was the bearer of it to Vienna for the purpose of giving any supplementary infor mation requisite concerning the plans of defence to be adopted in case of invasion by an enemy, whether on the side of the Mimi° and the Po, or on that of the Adriatic. I do net pretend to be able to send you positive details. What appears probable, jing by the frequent excursions of officers charged with local surveys, is this, that tho plain enclosed by the Tagliamento and the Livonia is selected for the formation of a camp of observation, which will extend from the mouuteinelopee on the AVIIIOO side and descend to the level lands of the Caorlo. Although this long tract is here and there intersected by streams and rivulets, such as the Lemena, Medusa, Non. cello, Lc., it nevertheless commando the principal causeways that serve as highways between Venetia and Illyria, and at the name time the coast line tending to the lamina of Venice. I should be inclined to say that the small towns of Fordo:mom, Portogruaro, Mate, Porto• buffole and San Llona, will be selected as headquarters for the commands of ',rigida. For the rest, nothing is settled as yet, and I am only alluding to the matter to let you know the rumours current. Beside', the army has not received any fresh reinforcements. We may accordingly set down its strength at 136,000 men stationed t,l echelons from Brixen and Labach to Borgoforte and Pole. The fortifications., notwithstanding the cold, are carried on with considerable activit". What an outlay! When we think on all that Austria did in their waste for the defence of Pavia and Piacenza, there is no occasion to be alarmed at what die is now doing here. The news from Hungary has raised the excite ment of the public to a very high pitch. A copy of the address from the Comitat of (Iran has been sent to the central congregation with the proper commentary for bringing into full relief the con trast that exists between the civic courage of the Hungarians and the complaisant suppleness of those who style themselves the representatives of Venetia. (FROM LAST EIGHT'S GAZETTE.) LORD CRAM BERLAt N'S-OPFICE, FEB. 2.—Notice is hereby given, that the Queen will hold lovecs, at St. James's Palace, upon the following days, at two o'clock, viz. :—Thunday, the 14th inst. ; Wednesday, the 20th inst. ; and Wednesday, the 13th of March next. But. KI NG A M PALACE, FEB. 4. —This day the Right Hon. Francis, Lord Napier, was by her Majesty's command sworn of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the hoard accordingly. Hu. 'lt I NI:14 A)1 PALACE, FEB. 4.—This day hasp audience of her Majesty :—His Excellency the Baron de Brunnow, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of all the Russian, to deliver his creden Bala. To which audience he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, K.G., acting for her Majesty's Principal Seen. tar. of State for Foreign Affairs. bt , cat' or LANCASTER, FEB. 4.—The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Sir Humphrey de Trafford, Bart., of Trafford Park, to be sheriff of the county palatine of lausaaster for the year ensuing. Iroar.ras-orner, JAN. 20.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Edward Thomas Rogers, Esq., now British vice —ul at Cuffs, to be her Majesty's consul at Damascus. FOREIGN-OMCE, JAN. 30.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph Severn, Esq., to be her Majesty'. consul at Rome. JA NI 124'14 PALACE, FEB. 2.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint John George Orem, Eaq., to be extra gentleman usher quarterly waiter to her Majesty. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor ova owa onnaronscr.) PARIS, TuEaDAT EVIENII4O. Count de Morny, in his speech to the Corps Legia latif to-day, which consisted for the most part of technical exp!anations of certain new rules of prac tice in the house, quoted the following, as the words actually used by the Emperor in the Council in which he announced his intention of granting the power to vote and address, and consequently to enter upon a free discussion of the home and foreign policy of his government : I am told that what hurts my government is the absence of publicity sod contra This it is which favours calumny and engenders prejudice. Now I mean well, I have no other than honest intentions in my heart, but I am liable to err, and therefore I wish to know the opioiou of the country speaking through its deputies after they shall have examined my acts. The Si&/e, by the pen of ite chief editor, M. Havin, expresses entire satisfaction with the speech, as far as regards foreign affairs. It doubts whether the ultramontanists and royalists will derive much comfort from the brief reference to Rome and Gaeta : The garrison of R.lllO was only augmented because the safety of the Holy Father seemed to be in question—not a word about the maintenance of the temporal power and the government of cardinal.. As to Gaeta, the reason given for the recall of the fleet is that its presence was found to be inconsistent with the policy of neutrality and "gave rise to misinterpretations." These words are most significant ; they put an extinguisher upon the longings of certain pretenders, and corroborate the declaration of non•intervention so well made by the bead of the state. _ _ M. Havin adopts the vulgar belief, very sedu lously inculcated, that France is " threatened" by the King of Prussia, whom he is pleased to call "the Elector of Brandebourg," and enthusiastically hails as pointed at him the allusion in the speech to forty millions of united Frenchmen who "will calmly await direct provocation." The Siecle fur ther observes that Great Britain is the only foreign nation named in the speech. It was very much remarked that the one phrase in the speech which was most particularly cheered by the Senate and the Corps Legislatif, was that in which the Emperor, alluding to Francis 11., spoke of " a royal misfortune nobly supported." M. Havin says that this was a "pacific and re actionary manifestation " organised beforehand. This view confirms what I told you when the depu ties were converging towards Paris a few days ago —that the main feeling which they brought from the departments was one adverse to war. As to home affairs, K Havin says that, although the speech does not say as much as be could wish in favourof liberty, "he is too just not to admit that a real progress is indicated." The Please is pleased with the speech, A 8 of course are the Constitutioanel, Pattie, and Pays. In the lobbies of the Corps Legislatif the "re ticence "of the speech is considered its chief cha racteristic. Members, whether of the government opposition or moderately independent sections of the house, alike ask—What does the Emperor really mean I And the general belief, as far as I can collect it, is that the speech is meant to be a collection of interrogatories upon various knotty points of foreign politics, as to which the Emperor, before deciding, would really be glad to know what the members of his parliament, all unaccustomed as they are to responsibility, can manage to say by the light of their own unassisted understandings. M. Havin's article, and the generally received opinion that a passage in the speech points angrily at the King of Prussia, lead me to notice some very sensible remarks by M. Weiss in the Courtier drs Dimanche, wherein he deprecates war, and, at the same time, pointedly shows how easy it would be for an unscrupulous government to get up a war feeling by working upon the weak point of the French people. He considers a war for "natural frontiers " as the meet absurd war in which a civilised people can engage. The phrase implies a return to the most primitive times, when Abraham, the shepherd, made war to get a river or a mountain as the natural frontier to protect his pasture grounds. But he then shows how prone the French people are, from must generous motives, to be led away by an empty phrase : This expression, natural frontiers, joined to the vague and indefinite word of nationalities, is the more dangerous that it offers to governments the only plausible pretext for plunging peoples into ambitious enterprises ; and because in France more particularly it would be the only watchword by means of which our country might be made to mistake one of those wars of conquest which it dislikes for oiled those wars of principle which It will never cease to love. If you were to my openly to France, as has been said in former times, " Let us set fire to Europe, in order that we may have garrisons at Hamburg, or take Catalonia, or establish ourselves in Italy," there would be one uni versal cry against such wickedness and folly. Not even the national love of glory and the false point of honour would sanction such a proceeding as this when broadly stated. But only throw down to the mob the word " Rhine," or " Alps," and they will serve as an excuse for any aggression. . _ This French exposition of French misgivings is worthy of attention at a moment when the Em. peror expects confidence and commercial prosperity to result from his bare promise that he will never engage iu an " unjust" war. The Bourse, which coldly received the Emperor's speech yesterday, was affected by the considerable fall in Consols this morning, and the Recto de clined 30c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 67fr. 80c. and 67fr. 85c. Mobilier fell 2f r. 50e. The Northern Railway fell 3fr. ibc. There was very little change in the other lines. The brave Marshal Bosquet, who never recovered from the serious wounds he received at the taking of the Malakoff Tower, died at Pau yesterday, at the early ago of 54. He was the youngest of the French marshals. By his death a district com mand becomes vacant. The Court of Cessation, overruling a judgment of the police court of Chavanges (Aube), has decided that the fete of the Immaculate Concep tion is not one of the legal fetes recognised by law pursuant to the Concordat. The question was raised at the expense of a tavern-keeper who had kept his house open after usual hours, relying upon a general lionise from the police for "fete days." CITY Smelts CoMMlSaloe.—Yestertiay the Com missionen of Sewers sat at Guildhall ; Mr. Deputy Christie I presiding. Dr. Letheby reported that the markets sod slaughterhouses had been duly inspected in the course of the week, and that the officers had seized6Aolbs., or nearly two tons and three-cmarters of meat, as unfit for human ' food. Nearly all tins was meat in a state of disease. The mortality returns for the week are still excessively high. Last week the number of deaths to the City was 97, instead of au average of 62-33, or nearly one-th isi, of the number were among children of less than five years of ago, and 24 among old persons. There were 12 deaths from phtbisis, 10 from bronchitis, and only 4 from pneumonia. At a pre vious meeting of the court, the names of those parties who had given information to the inspectors relative to diseased meat which had been consigned to them only were men tioned, and a resolution was passed that the names of those parties who had given uo information should also be made known, and )estenlay rather a lengthy discussion took place as to whether it should or should not be done, nod the court ultimately evinced • determination to carry out that resolution, RINI order* were accordingly given to the in spectors to that effect. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.—CAMBRIME, Fee. :. —ln the senate house this day the Rev. Dr. Bakeon, Master of St. John's College, was elected a member of the council of the senate, in the room of the Rev. Dr. Phil pott, Master of St. Catherine's College, Bishop of Wor cester. THE UNITED STATES. We have received New York papers of Jan. 23. A telegraphic summary of their Intelligence ap peaml our paper yesterday. In the Senate, on the 21st, a question arising in regard to the position of the absent senators from seceding states, the Vice-President said there was no record of such absence on the journal ; he sug gested that the Senate should instruct him as to whether he should recognise their absence. After debate, the Senate declined to take any action upon the matter, and thus no notice of the withdrawal of the absent senators will appear upon the record. Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, urged the adoption of Crittenden's resolutions. Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury, communi cated to the house an important document in reply to Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. It gives the items of the public debt iu detail, the amount of the floating debt, the unpaid balances, claims, acceptances and other ac knowledgments of debt by the government •, also, the facts connected with the recent sales of Trea sury notes, and the amount required to p a y the public dues accruing prior to the Ist o July, which is estimated at twenty millions, in addition to the revenue and other sources of income. It suggests measures to raise the amount, and among other means refers to the surplus revenue deposited with the States in 1838, as a specific fund which might be pledged or recalled. The communication shows the precise condition of the Treasury. Mr. Douglas has prepared an amendment to the constitution, consisting of eight sections, and will offer them as a substitute for Mr. Crittenden's resolutions. Section first provides that Congress shall make no laws in respect to domestic servitude in any territory of the United States, and that all territorial governments shall be formed on the model and in the terms of the Compromise Act of 1850 ; that no new territory shall be organised until it has 25,000 white inhabitants, nor no new State admitted until it has the requi site population for a representative to Con grtes ; that the Supreme Court shall determine the validity of territorial enactments. Section second declares that Congress shall have no . power to abolish or interfere with slavery either in the States or iu any place under the exclusive jurisdio tion of the United States, and that Congress shall not have the power to interfere with or prevent the removal of slaves from one state to another. Sec ition third for ever suppresses the slave trade. Sec tion fourth gives greater emphasis and efficiency to the claim already in the constitution concerning persons held to service or labour escaping, etc. Section fifth prohibits the elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether federal, state, territorial, or municipal, to persona of the African race, in whole or in part. Section sixth is in these words :—" The United States shall have power to acquire districts of country in Africa or South America, for the colo nisation, at the expense of the federal treasury, of such free negoes and mulattoes as the several States may desire to have removed from within their limits, and from the district of Columbia, and such other places as may be under the jurisdiction of Congress." The seventh section provides for the payment for fugitives, if the officers in search of them are prevented from doing their duty by vio lence or intimidation, and the eighth section pro vides that the first and second clauses of the first section of the second article of the constitution shall read as follows : The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. The president and vice-presi dent shall hold their offices for the term of six years, and shall be ineligible for the office of president for the ensuing six years after having performed the duties of president, and shall be elected as follows : The legislature of each state, at its first session after any federal census, shall divide said state into as many congtessional districts as it shall be entitled to representatives in congress, which dis tricts shall be as compact in form and nearly equal in popu lation as practicable. In each of said district, one elector of president and vice-president shall be chosen by the people thereof having the qualifications requisite for electors of representatives in Congrea, and In addition two electors for the state at large shall be chosen by the mem bers of the legislature assembled in joint convention for that purpose, ou the day appointed by Congress. The Bos t on Daily Courier of the 23rd says : All fears of a collision between any of the state autho rities and the general government may be set at rest, at least until the Ith of March. There have been rumours that Fort Pickens in Florida was invested. Major Chase, who is in command of the state troops at Pensacola, has telegraphed to the Florida senators at Washingtuu that he would neither attack the fort nor intertere with vessels paring peaceably in or out of the port. This is under stood to be the policy of all the Southern States. The anticipated attack on the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the night of Jan. 21, and the precautions that were taken against surprise, arose front this fact :—During the afternoon information reached Captain Foote, in command of the yard, in the absence of Commodore Breese, that an attempt would be made by a mob from New York to gain possession of the Navy Yard that night. Captain Foote immediately sought a conference with the Mayor of Brooklyn for co-operation to protect the public property, which was readily granted. An extra police force was placed on duty, the fifth brief° of militia was mustered, and the seventieth regiment was ordered from duty at the State Arsenal. In the Navy Yard, the marines were served with ball cartridges, and the guards were doubled at all points. It turned out, however, that the information upon which the commandant acted was false. On Jan. 22 the Senate of Rhode Island passed an act repealing the Personal Liberty Bill by a vote of 21 to B. The house, after some discussion, post poned the further consideration of the subject. The capital of the nation had begun to present a military aspect. A company of Flying Artillery from West Point was expected to arrive ou Jan. 22. The government will continue to concentrate troops there until the 4th of March. THE EARL OF DERBY AND THE ITALIANS. When Lord Derby denies that the later eon. eentr*tioa of Italy has been a consequence of Italy having been left alooe, and when lie alleges the Sardinians and Oaribahlians as instances of foreign interven tion, he becomes more iutolerant even than Metter , nich, and denies to Italy the poor gratification of being con sidered as even " a geographical expression." Lord Derby may have no faith in Italian unity ; he may believe Habana to be all doge together; but they have hitherto given him no facts to justify such • judgment, and there is nothing in their conduct to render it just for the leader of • great party to say of the united races of Italy that— , "As shoughs, water-rugs, end demi-wolves are clepod " All by the name of dogs," so "the same idea may with justice be applied to the difference which exists between the "popula tions occupying the several States of Italy. One of the most wonderful circumstances of this most wonderful revolution is the meaner in which their ancient differences of race and politics have been merged in the Italian nation. Have we heard a wordof the ancient pre tensions of Florence to be the salt of the earth '.' Has not even Rome been protesting with inconvenient eagerness her desire to be annexed to Piedmont? Has Milan remembered her old feuds ? Fora year and a half this long disunited people have come together with a marvellous sacrifiee of all little selfish objects, and with • hearty enthraissin for liberty which we should have thought must strike the sympathies of a *choler, and could not fail to arouse the in terest of a greatstatesmen in free England. If the struggles of a people entinst cruelties which Lonl Derby fully ad mits, while lie claims all our pity for their author, could not divert him from his attack upon Italy, he might surely have given her some credit for the example which she has just given to the world in the moderation of her elections. All these "shoughs and water-rugs nod demi-wolves" seem to have been of one mind. They have returned moderate men of excellent character, constitutional mouarchista - and good It alines. Every aided wants its seasoning. What would our own House of Cones loons be if it lost Roebuck! So there are a few Republi cans and Resalable+ in the new Italian Chamber ; but these are not one-twentieth of the whole body. Lord Derby takes no note of this. Ho has been unjust to Italy, and his bohl injustice leads us to suspect that those contests which he intimates as likely to occur at a later period of the session are not imminent, or, if imminent, are not so serious as might be implied from his language. A man aspiring to the immediate direction of the foreign policy of this country would not speak thus of Italy.—Times. GARIBALDI AND TIER CII4 Or LONDON'. —Notion was given to the town clerk on Monday that as Garibaldi h a d written to say that though it was hie desire to visit England, ho ems not able Gory when, it was Mr. Richard• sons intention to withdraw the motion be intended to make in the Court of Common Council on Thursday next for granting the freedom of the City to the illustrious general e y.g er &y morning it was withdrawn accordingly. 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