The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

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No borough member in the debate on leave to bring in the Bill for that purpose, ob jected to an equal division of what must somehow be given away. But more than one of the Tory members for counties endeavoured to raise a pre liminary objection to the Ministerial scheme upon the fallacious ground that in the House of Com mons, as now constituted, the towns have more than their fair share, and the counties less ; and they sought to insinuate, therefore, though they hardly ventured to argue explicitly, that the seats forfeited by St. Albans, as well as those taken from Sudbury, should be conferred on cer tain of the larger and more popular shires. Mr. besrixec declared that taxation and repre sentation "ought to be convertible terms," and Mr. RAIN •LD )(NIG MIXT quoted round numbers from a well-known Parliamentary paper to show, as be said, that property in counties paid much more to the income tax than pro perty in towns. We accept cordially Mr. Bawnwea's rule, but we deny flatly Mr. Keicurn.trea figures. As a mere matter of arithmetic it is utterly incorrect to draw any comparison of the kind in question from the re turn the bon. member relies on. For what is that return 1 It is one which takes cognisance only of real or fixed property rated under Sche dule A, and wholly omits the entire mass of in. comes which are taxed under Schedules B and D. Even this is but • very subordinate item in the general calculation which ought to be made if representation were to be allotted by • strict rule of proportion to the places where and the persons by whom taxes are paid. In the statistic:so/ Tory country gentlemen it may seem very well to make a grand total of taxes charged on the rent of land and set it off on the taxes charged on the rent of houses ; but everybody else is aware that the chief contributions of the dwellers in towns are not paid under this head at all, but principally in one form or other of indirect taxation. tat us have • return, if Werra. Kemeny( and Bait- Timex can frame one, showing how much of the seventy-two millions raised annually in one form or other is paid by landlords and labourers on the one hand, and by bankers, merchants, trailers, professional men, clerks, and skilled workmen of all sorts, who dwell in cities and towns, on the other, and then we shall see what the crazy argu ment is worth in favour of "140 more county " members," founded upon the ludicrous delusion that the inhabitants of the agricultural dis tricts contribute in the proportion of six to four to the taxation of the State. In point of fact they do nothing of the kind. The preponderant weight of national burthens falls on the industry and enterprise and skill of the towns ; and these have really far less than their due in the general representation. It is only in a mere parliamentary sense that real cities and towns are to be classed with the political hamlets and villages in whose name peers and country gentlemen send their nominees to Parlia ment. As well might parrots and starlings be classed among articulate speaking mortals, or sedan chairs be counted among ordinary vehicles for the conveyance of passengers. In what con ceivable respect do Arundel, Thetford, Richmond, or Ashburton resemble, we do not say any great town, but any town worthy of forming an element in the comparison between rural and municipal life T The anti-Reformers of the House of Com mons well know that the landed interest in that assembly consists not merely of county members, so called, but of the nominees for close and rotten boroughs, some sixty or seventy in number ; and we shall not be very far front the literal truth if we say, that with this addition the landed interest already possesses more than its full share of seats In parliament, even supposing its claim could be maintained to a moiety of the general taxation. Waiving all nice questions, however, of class claims, Ministers have not unnaturally resolved on fairly dividing the vacant seats between populous counties and populous towns. The West Riding and South Lancashire are each to have one, in virtue of their pre-eminent wealth and popula tion ; and whatever the impracticable' of the Opposition may say to the contrary, it will be difficult for Mr. Diskant or any of his late colleagues to object to a proposal which, as far as it goes, is, in fact, their own of 1852. In that year they suggested the bestowal of two seats on each of the great counties referred to ; and if it was just nine years ago to give each of them two, it can hardly be unjust now to give each of them one. Between the West Riding and South Lan cashire the Census of 181 showed much less difference than between either of them and any other county that could be named, the highest having less than one-fourth of the population pommeled by the West Riding. These counties stand oat conspicuously above their fellows ; and we take for granted that in the further progress of the measure we shall hear as little objection to their further enfranchisement se we have done on the introduction of the Bill. Between the boroughs designated for admission to Parliamentary rights there is a much greater disparity. Chelsea and Kensington contained at the last Census more than 100,000 souls; and byi THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1861. the last return of the Income and Property Tax, its inhabitants appear to be rated under schedules A, B, and D at more than 1,000,0001. sterling. There is no other town population in the United Kingdom of even half the size destitute of representative rights. Birkenhead contained in 1851 but 24,000 souls ; and even supposing it to have increased since then as rapidly as the me tropolitan borough, it would still be a long way behind. Whatever its precise amassment to the Property Tax may be, we hardly think that its pretensions will be generally considered equal to those of Kensington and Chelsea if regard be had exclusively to the two elements we have named. But Lord PALMER...air% urges on its behalf that being the most promising and ambitious of our new seaports, something ought to be set down in its favour upon that score. We are not about to set pretension against pretension or place against place invidiously. When the Bill is in Committee various amendments will no doubt be moved ; and if Lord ENFIELD can persuade the House to confer both seats formerly possessed by St. Albans on his late constituents, we shall certainly not repine. But, looking at the measure as a whole, we should be sorry to see its progress frustrated because it does not do all that we could wish. Lord PAL MERNIoN repudiated frankly the notion of its being considered in any sense a fragmentary mea sure of Reform. it is simply the performance of a duty neglected too long, but of which both the great parties in Parliament have expressly ac knowledged the obligation. Prince Napoleon were BM it might be declared by the council that the opposition was unfounded ; Considering that before the family council, IL. Berryer's clients pleaded that the council had no jurisdiction to decide the question, and asked that they might be sent lc Mat de We're before the president of the Tribunal of the First Instance of the Seine, but that the council, after baviug rejected this objection, on the ground that the rights claime.l by Mdme. Paterson and her son raised a question essentially personal, as to which the council alone was • competent tribunal, it proceeded to pronounce upon the merits, and declared the opposition bad, upon the ground that it rested only upon the alleged character of a legi timate wife and son; That by the anterior judgment of July 4, 1856, it was declared that it did not result from the facts and circum stances that Jerome Bonaparte Paterson had a right to avail himself of the benefit of Arts. 201 and 202 of the Code Napoleon, and that the circumstances invoked by Mdme. Paterson were the same, and did not give to that lady a right to talcs advantage of those articles ; Considering that it results clearly from this judgment that the character of legitimate wife of his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome—which character is the sole foun- dation for the present demand—was denied to Mdme. Paterson, as was also the character of a legitimate son de nied to Jerome Bonaparte Paterson by the first judgment of July 4, 1856; Considering that it is vainly objected that the second judgment only decided provisionally and in Oat de Wird, and that the only judgment rendered on the merits was by default ; that, on the one hand, if Y. Berryer's clients concluded to be remitted en Oat de Wire, these conclusions could not change the nature of the original demand, nor subMitute a provisional jurisdiction merely for the juris diction on the merits with which the council was invested by the conclusions put forward in the name of Prince Napoleon ; that, on the other hand, it is indifferent, as to the authority of la chow jwfie, whether a judgment be given by default or not, when the judgment has been regularly executed, and when it has not been opposed in the forms, within the time, and in the cases warranted by law ; Considering that from the matters above stated, and from the conclusions submitted to, and discussed before the family council, which led to the two judgmenta of July 4, 1856, and July 5, 1860, and from the recitals and clauses of those two judgments, it results that all the various con ditions required by Art. 1351 of the Code Napoleon to con stitute the authority of the chose jug& exist in the muse, from which it follows that a "fn de non receroir absolue" (► conclusive prejudicial objection) exists to the demand now before the tribunal ; For these reasons Declares Madame Paterson (Elizabeth) and Jerome Bonaparte her son not receivable in their demand and dismisses it. Orders that in the margin of the act of July 19,1860, containing a declaration of acceptance under benefit of inventory by Jerome Bonaparte of the succession of his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome, mention shall be made of the present judgment. Sentences the plaintiff to pay the costa, You will not fail to observe that the above judgment proceeds entirely upon the ground that the question was conclusively adjudicated upon by the Emperor's family council last year, and abstains from pronouncing any judicial opinion upon the merits of the case. Now it is a curious circum stance in the history of this cause eclebre that the Moniteur of January 19, 1801, made a merit of Prince Napoleon's submission to the ordinary courts of law. The following are the words used by the Moniker :—" H. I. H. Prince Napoleon has not wished to object to tho competence of the ordin ary tribunals by invoking the special jurisdiction of the imperial family." The case, narrowed as it is by the course taken 1 1 by the court, and the damaging admissions of the Public Minister, M. Merveilleux, as to the law of the case, will Alford a splendid field for M. Berryer when he brings it before the Court of Appeal. M. de la Guerronniere's pamphlet, copious ex tracts of which you will have received by telegraph, is considered rather disappointing, on account of the practical uncertainty of its tone. I told you, however, some days since, that it would be " with out a conclusion." • It is now admitted that when M. Fould left Paris "for the benefit of his health," he had a mission to Italy. He has lately returned to Paris, and I hear that he proposed terms of a compromise between Victor Emmanuel and the Pope, which the latter refused to swept. At the opening of the Bourse there was a further considerable fall, the Rente being quoted at one time as low as 67fr. 85c., but it became much stronger in the afternoon and closed both for cash and account at 681 r. 5c., with a fall of only 10c. and sc. Mobilier fell 6fr. 25e. Railways were rather better ; Lyons rose 3fr. 75c. ; Southern and Western, 2fr. 60c. each ; the other lines show but little alteration. COUNT PERSIONY AND THE " COURRIER DU DIMANCHE." The following is a letter which Count Persiguy has mealy addressed to a friend in this country : Paris, Feb. 6, 1861. My dear Sir,-1 have received the letter which you ad dressed to me on the subject of the measure which I have taken against the Courrier du Di uwarlie. If, as you inform me, public opinion in England has blamed this act, I greatly regret the circumstance, for you are well aware what a high value I set on the opinion of a country for which I have learned to cherish such a profound esteem. But there is something else on which I set ► still higher value, and that it the real interest of my own country. . . You are aware of the fact that in my character of Minister of the Interior I am invested by our laws with • discre tionary power analogous to that which the judges who held office under the House of Hanover wielded against the Jacobites and the Papists. Faithfully adhering to the spirit of the great imperial decree of the Zith of November, and to the principles of my own circular on the press, I have favoured, to the utmost of my ability, the right of freely discussing the acts of the government—a right which consti tutes • considerable innovation in the rfoisie of our Mean. Mons, and of which the newspapers have readily and fairly availed themselves. But from the moment that a journal, not cenfining itself, as the English newspapers do, to the reproduction of opinions, whether liberal or conservative, aristocratic or democratic, tory, whig, or radi cal, attacks the very principle of our institutions, and even the dynasty itself, I felt myself bound, if I was to remain faithful to the doctrines of my ministerial circular, to give • warning to that journal. Nor did I stop there. I .044 the opportunity furnished by the circumstance that the writer of the article was a foreigner to act with still greater severity, in order to place, in the clearest possible light, my resolution on this point ; foe I entertain the conviction, at once deeply rooted and strength ened by the example of England, that the sole mode of establishing freedom in • country where, unlike England, there seal exist faction. hostile to the existing form of government, is to separate the liberty of discussing the affairs of the country from the liberty of assailing its fun damental institutions. Now, in precisely the same way in which you in England, with your practical common sense, have never allowed the establishment of the Hours of Hanover to be called in question, I, as the faithful guardian in France of dynastic interests resembling those of the House of Hanover, will not allow myself to be turned aside from what I re gard as the sacred path of duty. In a word, I entertain the sincere belief that, in having dealt thus severely with the Coarrier din DiNGSICAC, I have been as truly serving the interests of freedom as when I invited all the journals freely to disease the acts of the edminiatratirm. Such, my dear sir, is the leagnage which I may frankly and openly employ to men who, like yourself, have bees led in perfect good faith to misapprehend the moral elm. meter of this measure, and Idoso in the belief that the most effectual mode of serving oleo's country is first faith fully to serve the dictates of one's own conscience.—Accept the assurances, &c., (Signed) F. Di PriISIONY. There is to be, we (Army and Nary Gazette) hear, • medal for China for both the wars against that empire ; and clasps far Pekin and Canton. THE ARCHBISHOPS AND •'THE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS." The Rev. W. R. Fremantle, of Claydon Rectory, has received the following reply to an address presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury Lambeth, Feb. 12. " Rev. Sir,-1 have t►ken the opportunity of meeting many of my episcopal brethren in London, to lay your ad dress before them. "They unanimously agree with me in expressing the pain it has given them that any clergyman of our church should have published such opinions as those concerning which you have addressed us. " We cannot understand how their opinions can be held consistently with an honest subscription to the forniulariee of our church, with many of the fundamental doctrines of which they appear to us essentially at variance. " Whether the language in which these views are expressed is such as to make their publication an act which could be visited in the ecclesiastical courts, or to justify the synodical condemnation of the book which con tains them, is still under our gravest consideration. But our main hope is our reliance on the blessing of God in the continued and increasing earnestness with which we trust that we ►nd the clergy of our several dioceses may be en abled to teach and preach that good deposit of sound doc trine which our church has received in its fulness, and which we limy that she may, through God's grace, ever set forth as the usoorrupted Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I remain, rev. sir, your faithful servant, •. Rev. W. Fremantle. "J. B. CANTUAR. " I am authorised to append the following names : "C. J. Eaoa " R. D. HERE/ORD. " A. C. LONDON. " J. CHiarra. " H. M. DUREX. " A. I.LANDA/7. "C. R. Wurrov. "R, J. B►TH RAD WELLS. " H. Emma. " J. Livootx. "C. PRITIRDOROUGH. "C. OLOUCIETER k BRISTOL. " C. Sr. DAVID& " W. axiom. "A. T. CHICHESTER. "R. RIPON. "J. lacerrum. "J. T. Nottmcv. " S. 0:ov. " J. C. BANGOR. " T. ELT. " J. ROCHIL4TER. " T. V. Sr. AAtre. " S. CARLISLE." " J. P. MAxcassru. THE PROPOSED COBDEN DEMONSTRATION AT BRADFORD. On Thursday afternoon a meeting of the com mittee formed in the wonted and woollen districts to do honour to Mr. Cobden, in consideration of his distinguished services in connexion with the French treaty, was held in the ofilces of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce ; the object of the meeting being to receive a report from the deputation who waited upon Messrs. Gladstone and Cobden, and to determine what further steps should be taken. Mr. H. W. Ripley, chairman of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, occupied the chair. The chairman reported that the deputation, which consisted of Messrs. F. Crossley, M.P., E Baines, M.P., H. W. Wick. ham, M.P., E. A. Leathern, M.P., J. Eitandeld, M.P., Ripley, Whitworth, Behrens, Kell, and other gentlemen from Leeds, Huddersfield, and Batley, in all about nineteen, waited upon Mesas. Gladstone and Gibson, on the 7th inst., and were introduced by Mr. F. Crossley, M.P. The invi tation having been presented to the right hoe. gentleman, Mr. Gladstone replied in a speech which occupied about twenty minutes, and began with a most eloquent re cognition of the services rendered by Mr. Cobden, whom he considered well deserving of the intended demonstration, and of all the gratitude which parliament and the nation at large could show him. He dwelt upon the treaty brought to so happy an issue, and trusted that it would realise the most sanguine expectations. All those who were associated with him (Mr. Gladstone) as labourers in the field of politica knew bow seldom even the good they could do was unmixed with evil, but all could look back upon the French ' treaty with feelings of perfect satisfaction. Coming to the special object of the deputation, Mr. Gladstone said that he bad, after mature consideration, come to the conclusion that he ought to decline the honour offered to him, although he considered it one of the greatest which could be offered to any public man. He (Mr. Gladstone) was only an indi vidual member of an united cabinet, and whatever he had done was done in common council and under common re sponsibility, and he could not separate himself from his col leagues in accepting any special honour on account of the treaty. But besidss this general objection he had a special one, which referred to him as Chancellor of the Exchequer. As such he could not separate the treaty from the other parts of his budget, which were yet open to criticism and obloquy, which the treaty itself had apparently outlived. For these reasons be must decline the invitation so unani mously given to him. Mr. Gibson, on hie part, said that whilst the reasons given by Mr. Gladstone did not perhaps apply with equal force to himself, still they did also apply to him, and he must respectfully de cline the Invitation ; but he suggested that, as the great merit of the treaty really belonged to Mr. Cobden, the banquet should be given to bins alone, other parties being invited. This report having been tendered to the committee, expressions of regret were manifested that Messrs. Gladstone and Gibson had felt themselves obliged for the reasons Mated to decline the invitation ; and it was then resolved that a deputation should be appointed to wait upon Mr. Colxlen immediately on his arrival in London, to make arrangements fur the time of the intended demonstra. tion, and that the chairnma be requested to communicate with Mr. Cobden to endeavour to ~,certain the time of his arrival. It was also resolved that when Mr. Cobden his fixed the time the French commissioners and other gentle. men be invited to meet him. Mr. Edmund Oldfield has withdrawn from the Department of Antiquities in the British Museum. The trustees have accepted his resignation. The aub-committre of the Hallam Memorial Fund, having examined the models sent in by various 'map ton for a statue to be erected in St. Paul's, have unani mously selected the design of Mr. feed, who will proceed with it at once. We (if the ma Ion) are glad to hear that the sub scriptions towanls Consul Petherick's expedition up the White Nile are likely to attain to the amount necessary fur the journey. Such a task could nut be in safer hands. The lists already show contributions ►mounting to 1,0001. The French Exhibition will open this year earlier than usual, the oth of next month being named for the private view. Mr. Wooluer's bust of Professor Sodgwick is being exhibited in the vestibule of the library of Trinity College, Cenibridgo. Madame Riaori ii expected in Paris early in March, and iotends to play iu French at the (lien Theatre, in a new play by M. Legouvi. " Years have elapsed," says the Illustrated Times, "gime there has been any theatrical sums' to equal that of The Colleen Bate* at the Adelphi. Nightly the house is crammed, and hundreds are turned away. At Easter Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault go for a month to Dublin, where this favourite piece will be played. During their absence Mr. Webster will re-appear at the Adelphi. On their re. turn, Mr. Boucicault's drama of The Octoroon will be res produced. As this piece treats of the slavery question, the principal ensue representing a slave ash) depicted by the author from actual observation), it will doubtless, at this time, create a very great impression." Shortly M. i't.chter will csaay the character of Hamlet. Green-room gossip mentions that a new and original play by Mr. Craven, in which Mr. Robson has • powertblpart, is in preparstiou at the Olympi r. We (Ainday Tiny) are very happy to hear that, on Friday last, Mr. Drew, the popular Irish comedian at the Lyceum Theatre, experienced a notable improvement in health. A refreshing sleep—the first he has enjoyed since his attack—seems considerably to have ministered to the chances of his recovery, and his friends have been encou• raged to hope that be will now be speedily enabled to make his reappearance on the stage. The General Dramatic Fund dinner will take place on the 28th proximo ; Mr. E. T. Smith in the chair. Mr. and Mrs. Kean do not go to America next year, as they originally intended, having entered into an engagement to appear at Drury-lase. The dormitory• at Westminator School ham been partitioned into separate sleeping places, and has been well lighted and ventilated. A gymnasium and a fives court, available in all states of the weather, are to be established The hour for attendance by boys who reside at a distance is now 9 a.m. At the same time a proper building or hall for the reception of home hoarders during the interval between school hours is to be built in llean'e•yard, and, when within that building, they will be under the supervision of a master specially appointed for the purpose. - - - - THE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION. —lnformation Las not hitely been received from the great explorer end his party. Favourable accounts have been incidentally for wanied of the well-being of the expedition, Dr. Livingstone being especially stout and well. They are probably about at the end of their return journey to Teti from Linyanti. ex pecting to meet the members of the University expedition, who are now in the river. Mrs. Livingstone has been stay ing atLi'imbridge, at Aubrey Villa, the residence of the Rev. William Monk, during the pest few days. Sho is a remark able person, having shared many both of her father's and of her husband's most dangerous journeys. Mrs. Livingstone yill return to Africa after the lapse of sufficient time to arrange family matters in England. Her visit to Cam bridge was, we hear, somewhat sudden ; hence, she has not had so good nu opportunity of meeting members of the Uni versity ; still, she has been introdumi to many of our met distinguished residents—at the Bev. Profemor Sedgwick'e, the Rev. Professor Browne's, the Bev. W. Monk's, and on other OCC4l,lolll.—Cambridye Indrix 'ideal. ebe Court. The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Priucesme Alice and Helena, honoured the perform ance at Her Majesty's Theatre on Thursday evening with their presence. In attendance were Lady Churchill, Hon. Horatia Stopford, Lord de Tablet', Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. D. de Rae. The Queen walked yesterday in the garden of Bucking. ham Palace. The Duch/mot Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived upon a visit to her Majesty at Buckingham Palace, at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon from her residence, Frog man. The Prince Consort presided yesterday after non at a meet ing at the Royal Caumissioa for promoting and encou. 27 ser the Fine Arta in the rebuilding the Palace of West . Hie Royal Highness arrired at the Palace at Westminster at 3 o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Res. The other commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Stanhope, Viscount EversleT, Lord Llanover. Lord John Manners, the Right Hoe. William Cowwr, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, and fler Benjamin %twee. The Secretary, Sir Charles L. &Allah*, attenstecl. . . . TM Meeting broke up soon after five o'clock. The Primers§ Alice and Helen► and Prime Leopold visited the South Kensington Museum yesterday. TM Marquis of Hresdalbene, K.T., has been selected by Mr Majesty to proceed upon • mead mission to invest his Ma*iy the King of Prussia with Order of the Garter. His lordship will be accompuded by Major-General Lord Predenc hart, C. 8., sad by Virount ilinchinbrook, of tM t:renadier Guards. Sir Charles Young, Garter King of Arms, will also pro ceed upon the mission with the Marquis of Breads!bane. A deputation of the Justices of the West Riding of York. shire, appointed to wait noon the Home Secretary, on the enbjeet of allowances to perecators and witnesses in criminal prosecutions, had an interview with Sir George C. Lewis, yesterday 'at the Haar Aim The deputation con sited of Colonel Smyth, M.P., Mr. W. B. Beaumont, H.P., Mr. H. W. Wickham, M.P., Mr. John Wells, Mr. G. Si Bescroft, H.P., Hr. William Edward Forster, ILP., Hr. T. H. Ingham, Mr. Wilson Overload, Mr. W. B. Wrightson, H.P., Mr. Osage Armitage, Mr. Siena Phillips, Mr. T. Collins, H.P., sad Lard Hodson. M.P. The Justices were acoompenied by Mr. B. Dixon, the acting Clerk of the Pesos, and Mr. Mandell, the Solicitor for the West Riding. Thu Governor of the Bank of F.ngland and the Deputy governor had ea interview with the Chanoelksr of the Ex. . &ismer yesterday. Mr. Wright had an interview with the Right Has. Themes Milan Gibson and the Right Hon. W. Hutt yea tai at the Aloe of the Board of Trade, and sulmitted a meal se • safety railway. The loggia' Committee of the Privy Council at peter ss/4mA. appeal from Madras., " Venosteawara Naicker v. Bliaoitoo-hervacaren," part beard, was concluded. Despetebee yore received yesterday at the Colonial. Aloe hos the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the Hovervor ed Canada, aed to the Lord High Commis sioner el the lonian Wanda (nor Laffxian's alarm) • - - LORD CuAliazaLsises-ornei, ram 2.—Notice is hereby given, that the quota will bold Lanes, at St. Janito's /Woos, wen tie following di" at two o'clock, via :—Wsdneaday the 90th instant, . i d Wednesday the la& of Musk .net. Lose Ciilitsiiikanes-orrice, Fa 7. — Notice is boreby gives, that the Queen will hail a Drowlez 4000 at at. Jana% Palace, upon Thunday the 214 el March auk at two o'clock. iIVITUASI PALACE, Fen. t —Tbe Queen was Ili da pleased to ceder the honour of K upon Araks: Cotton, Colonel•Ccosinandost la C h° M ' a d iesty's Moder ragimmini. Mr. JArtines PAurr , Fre. 14.—The Queen was tbie da pima to cooler the honour of Knighthood upon Bielard Charles Kirby, Fe.q., Companies of the Moot Honourable Order of the Bath, and late Accountant. Osumi of the Wm Department. Frs. 14.—The Queen him been Mitto apt Charles Marquis of Handy to be t and Sheriff-Principal of the Shire of Abadan, in the room of Dome FAH of Aberdeen, deceased. Duwmixo-arissr, Fat 11.—The Queen line been pionced to appoint William Charles Gibson, Fag., to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of Ceylon ; John Smale, Nag, to be Attorney• General for the Colony of Hong Ksz,zd it Trancis Spencer Wiglev to be one of her Ma. jest s Ormond for the Virgin Islands. a-arartr, Foe. 14.—The Queen has been tatto appoint Lieutenant•Colooel Harry St. .K, tolio Governor and Commander.in.Chief i G n . 2 3 ear theiontodss or Homan' blonds, in America. Yeeterday the Earl of Derby, who appears to bore lost all Wes of his recent severe illness, honoured Mayan, the pliotegiapher, with a visit at his studio in Regent-etreet. The weather was far from favourable to photographic nuinipuktion, but Mr. Mayan was fortunate enough to produce several remarkably suomiestui portraits, some of which, weunderstend, are to be published. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family do not intend to leave Dalkeith Palitoe for town until altar Pater. The Duchess of Norfolk and family have arrived at Norfolk Houma from Amidst Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester hare arrived in town from Atuport House, Andover, for the 111080014 The Marquis' and Marchioneas of St. Antonio and Madame Costello have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn• street, for Portugal. The Counte;s Dowager of Tankerville entertained at dinner yesterday, at her residence in Hertford-street, the Countess of Chesterfield. the Hoe. Fredenek and Lady Adelaide Cadogao, the Earl Granville, the FAH of Shel burne, Count de Jancourt, and Mr. Charles Greville. The Countess of Mouut Eiligcumbe and Lady Ernestine Edgennibe have joined the itui of Monet Edgenmbe at Farrance's Hotel, frees Mount Falgcumbe, Devooport. The Earl and Counteas of Lincoln are expected is tows early meat week from Paris. The Countess Cowley soul the Ladies Wellesley have lett tows for Paris. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly this aiming, and oa Saturday asst. Lord and Lady Chelmsford entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at their residence in Eaton square. Lord and Lady Egerton have arrived in St. James'asquare, from their seat is Cheshire, for the mama Lord Richard Grosvenor has just returned home after several years' &teepee. during which period his lord ship has travelled is America, Australia, China, and lapse. iAdy Molimworth entertained at dinner List evening Maris Marchioness of allimbury, Viscount Falkland, Lord landiellia, M.P., Mr. and the Hon. Mn. Wodehmme Currie, Lord Robert Montagu, M.P., Hon. Mrs. Dyne Sombre, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mrs. Ford. Sir Henry Rawboson, Captain de Fab., Right Hon. Colonel Forester, M.P., and Mr. Milbanke. Si; Leopold H•Clintock was preftuted on Thurs lg. at a public meeting in Dublin, with a splendid seem° of plate. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURE OF FRANCIS IL FROM GAETA. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office TERBACINA, FEB. 14. The capitulation of Gaeta was accelerated by the explosion of two powder magazines on the 13th instant. The garrison remain pri.soners of war, enjoying military honours. Another article of the capitulation stipulated that Francis 11. was to be free. Francis 11. , the Queen, the princes, and the ambass►dors, have embarked on board the Mouette. Francis 11. addressed an earnest farewell to the troops, who were deeply affected, and cheered the King. The Monetto fired a royal salute at the moment of departure. The battery of flee port fired a salute of 21 guns. _ Francis 11. and his family have disembarked here. They will go to Rome, where apartments are prepared for them in the Vatican. ROME, FRIDAY EVENING. Francis IL and his Queen arrived here to-clay, and alighted at the Quirinal. The brothers of the King and General Bosco have also arrived here. His holiness and his distinguished guests have exchanged visits. NAPLES, Frs. 14. The Sardinians occupied the ramparts of Gaeta at 6 a.w., and the interior fortifications at a later hour. The garrison of Gaeta will remain prisoners of war until the surrender of Measii.a and Civitella del Tronto. It is believed that Gaeta has suffered much by the explosion of the powder magazines. Yesterday a Spanish vessel came to Gaeta, and re ceived the diplomatic corps on board. Naples is grandly illuminated, and files are taking place on account of the capitulation of Gaeta. PARIS, fisruaDAT. Reports are current here that the proclamation of th'e kingdom of Italy will not for the present be communicated in an official manner to several governments. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNDICI. The Moniteur of to-day contains a decree, according to which raw tissues of cotton destined to be printed in France for re-exportation will be temporarily admitted free of duty. Tho Mintikur also announces that Admiral Charner has received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, FRIDAY. The pamphlet of M. de la Guerrounibre, entitled "France, Rome, and Italy," has been published. It contains an expose of the Roman question. The author says that the spiritual power of the Papacy is not endangered, but that the temporal power is now passing through a grave crisis. He explains the causes of this crisis, which he says are to be found in the antagonism between the Papacy and Italy, and the distrust between the Vatican and the Tuileries. M. de la Gnerronniere con tinues thus :—" If the Pope is isolated from Italy, whose fault is it ? Is the French policy wanting in devotedness, patience, or foresight ? It is at length necessary that it should be known where lies the responsibility." The pamphlet then gives a history of the relations of the Papacy with Italy and Franee since 1848, and continues as follows : "Italy is freed, but not yet constituted. The obstacle to her organisation is Rome. As long as the antagonism between Italy and the temporal Papacy continues, the conditions of political equilibrium will not be found. It is as difficult to imagine an Italy without the Pope as to imagine the Pope without Italy. In the mean time the Emperor will leave his sword at Rome, in order to protect the security of the Holy Father. He cannot sacrifice Italy to the Court of Rome, neither can he deliver up the Papacy to the revolution. Impassible, he will patiently await the hour when the pontifical government, at last disabused in regard to the dangerous allies who have imposed their support upon it, shall be able to distinguish between those who have done every thicg to bring about its ruin and those who have done everything for its preservation." TURKEY. OONESTANTINOPLE, Frs. 9. Great storms have raged in the Black Bea during the week. Among the vessels lost are the Sully and the Hatay IV., of the Messageries Imperialus, which were wrecked near Trebizoud. The crews were saved. News from Syria 1s to the 29th ult. Up to that data no executions had taken place. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, EIATUIDAT. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadolphia Company's steamer City of Washington, Captain Jeffrey, from New York on the 2nd ins t ant, has arrived. She brings 14 cabin and 87 steerage passengers, but neither specie nor mails. She passed the steamers Marathon and Edin burgh. She experienced strong breezes and heavy seas on the homeward voyage. News anticipated. SYRIA. Mod oul OW BEYROUT, Iris. 1. Fuad Pacha came down from the Lebanon three days ago, having done nothing whatever towards forwarding the punishment of the Druses, although he was furnished two months ago with lists of those who took part in the massacres, and has two thousand or more of them in custody. The scheme of the new government in its outline has, I understand, been approved of by the five cabinets of Europe. Here it gives great satisfac tion to men of all climes, countries, and creeds. Even the Moslems of Syria (not the Osmanli Turks) profess themselves satisfied, as the future Governor- General is to be of their creed. But fluid that I was mistaken in two items of the details. The Governor-General with his council is to have full powers even of life and death, without any refer ence to the Porte, and the revenues of the pro vince are to be used for the province alone ; no tribute whatever is to be paid to the Porte. These are as they should be. The details of the administration are to be settled by the European commissioners of the five powers, so that we may expect these will be placed on a proper footing. I have hitherto refrained from saying a word about our English commissioner, Lord Dufferin, but there can be no longer any need to keep silence regarding one of whom all wen in Syria speak so well. There can be no doubt that his lordship's nomination to this somewhat thankless office has proved to be of the very highest credit to our Foreign-office. Of his ability, energy, and seal, his thorough knowledge of Syria, and, above all, his high integrity, all his colleagues speak in the most admiring terms ; and, so far as an outsider can hear and learn, he seems certainly to be the leading man amongst the five commissioners. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PATERSON v. BONAPARTE.-JUDGMENT. (TROY OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. At the sitting of the Tribunal of the First In stance to-day, the President, M. Benoit Champy, delivered the following judgment : The tribunal judging in the first resort, Considering the demand against H. LH. Prince Napoleon by Madame E. Paterson and J. Bonaparte, her son, has for object the liquidation and distribution of the succession of li.Lll. Prince Jerome, deceased, June 24, 1060 ; That this dienuod is founded upon the quality which the plaintiffs claim of legitimate wife and son of Prince Jerome, with whom Mdme. E. Paterson is alleged to have contracted marriage at Baltimore on Dec. 24, 1803 ; Considering that among the grounds put forward as a defence to this action, is one founded upon the authority of fa chose fro.* (a previous final decision), that according to the defence this authority results from two decisions of the family council pronounced on July 4,1850, and July 5, 1860, which decisions admitted and proclaimed the nullity of the marriage of Dec. 24, and its nonefficacity even with regard to civil effects ; That it is proper, in the first place, to consider the merits of this ground of defence, because if it be well founded it establishes a peremptory exception to the pre sent demand, and relieves the tribunal front thenecessity of examining the other questions raised in the course of the argument—whether the marriage was void as tainted with claudastinity, whether Madame Paterson can claim the benefit of "good faith" in the legal acceptetion of the term, and what authority is due to the decrees of the 11 and 30 Ventose ; And finally, whether the possession d 'Etat (status) claimed by 31. Berryer's clients does not meet with • manifest, energetic, and continuous contradiction in the single fact of the second marriage contracted in 1807 by his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome and the Princess Catherine of Wurtemburg, on the faith of the legal non existence of the first union, and whether therefore the expressions importing relationship used towards Jerome Paterson in the correspondence do not find their natural explanation in the undoubted ties of blood which existed, and more especially so, seeing that the recognition of this possession d'Etat would have been, on the part of the chil dren of the second marriage, the negation of their own legitimacy ; Con►idering that by the terms of Art. 1,330 of the Code Napoleon, legal presumption is especially connected with the authority which the law attributes to the Aux jug& ; That by the terms of Art. 1,351 of the same code, the authority of the chose jugie prevails with regard to that which has been the subject of • judgment ; that the thing de manded must be the same, and the deinand must be founded upon the same cause and contested between the same parties appearing in the same character ; Considering that in order to determine whether the va rious conditions of identity exist in the present cause, it is necessary to examine minutely the circumstances which gave rise to the discussion in the family council, se well as the conclusions taken before it, and upon which the jadg mente of 4th Ju1y,18.36, and sth July,lB6o, wore rendered; Considering that the marriage of December 24, 18tH, contracted at Baltimore between J. Bonaparte, brother of the First Consul, and F.. Paterson was, it is true, celebrated according to the forms and with the publicity required by the local statutes ; but that it is proved that Jerome Bona parte was then only nineteen, and that the clauses of the Code Napoleon relative to marriage had been promulgated in the month of March preceding; That according to Art. 3 of the code the laws concern ing the data and capacity of Frenchmen govern Frenchmen abroad; and that, according to Art. 170, two conditions were imposed to validate a marriage contracted by • Frenchman in • foreign country— the publications prescribed by Article 63, and the consent of the parent., in conformity with Art. 148—neither of which conditions were complied with in the present case ; and so early as October, 1803, the French Minister in the United States notified these legal dispositions to Jerome Bonaparte, end also to Mr. Paterson, the father, and Geo. Smith, • near relation of E. Paterson, and that these notifi cations did have the effect of breaking off the marriage in I 18 W ; That, nevertheless, the project of marriage was suddenly revived and realised on Dec. 21 of the same year ; That it is even to be remarked that in the contract a sti pulation was inserted by which Jerome Bonaparte under took, in cam any doubt should ever be raised as to the va lidity of the manage either in the state of Maryland or in France, to do and complete ►ll acts necessary to remove difficulties, and to make the union a valid and perfect mar riage according to the forms and laws both of Maryland and France ; Considering that an authentic protest of Madame Mere against the aforesaid marriage, dated3Ventose, year ELM, was followed by two decrees of the Emperor Napoleon L, dated 11 and 30 Ventage of the mine year ; The first, prohibiting all officers of the (tat civil from re ceiving on their registers the transcription of the act of celebration of the pretended marriage contracted by Prince Jerome Bonaparte in a foreign country ; The second, declaring that the said marriage was null and void, that it could never produce any civil effects, and that the children born or to be born of the said marriage could never claim any right of relationship founded upon that union ; Considering that two years later, the marriage of hi. Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Bonaparte with the Prince*. Catherine of Wurtemburg wu celebrated in Frame with all the formalities prescribed by law, sod that on January 2, 1813, Madame E. Paterson claimed and obtained from the General Assembly of Maryland an act annulling the marriage which she had contracted in 1803 with Jerome Bousparte ; • That in this state of things their Imperial Highnesses Prince Napoleon and Princess Mathilde, his Oster, children of the marriage of Jerome and the Princess Ostherine of Wurtemburg, having learned that J. Paterson not only seamed the name of Bonaparte, but claimed to be a legi timate son, by virtue of the marriage of Dec. 24, brought an action for the purpose of establishing that J. Paterson was not entitled to exercise any of the rights appertaining to the legitimate issue of Pnnce Jerome and that he and his descendants might be prohibited from using the name of Bonaparte—the decree of 11 Ventoee remaining in fo l force ; That the family council, instituted by Art. 29 of the statute of Jane 21, 1853, by virtue of the Soirees Consul. teat of November 7, 1852, waa the only tribunal competent to take cognisance of this action, and that it bad sovereign jurisdiction on the question ; That Jerome Paterson, as well in his own name as in that of his son, recognising the competence of the family council, maintained that the marriage of December 24 was valid ; that the certificate of the marriage and the posxes xtoa Etat following it, established his legitimacy in the most peremptory manner ; that subsidiarily he demanded that in case the marriage should be declared void, it might produce its civil effects in virtue of Arta. 201 and 202 of the Cods Napoleon as • consequence of the "good faith " at least the presumptive good faith—of the lady ; That upon these conclusions thus taken and developed by MM. Allen and Berryer in the name of the respective parties, the family council decided on July 4, 1810, that although the defendant must be held entitled to Lear the name of Bonaparte, by which he had always been knows, he had no right to the benefit of Arts. 201 and 202 of the code ; And this, because it did not appear from the facts and - • - circumstance* of the canoe that the defendant had a right to avail himself of the aforesaid articles, and because the marriage of 1803 had been made null and void by the de crees of II and 30 Voila., year XIII., even with regard to children born and to be born ; Considering that it is manifest thit in refusing to give to the marriage of Dec. 24, 180:1, the value and effects of a putative marriage, the family council necessarily, and s fortiori, recognised and proclaimed the nullity of that mar rings Considering it is true that this judgment is not binding upon Yrs. Paterson, who was no party to it, but that a second judgment against both her and her son Jerome Pater son, Dow authorised to hearth. name of Bonaparte, was pro nounced on July 5, 1860; that an opposition to the removal of the seals after the death of Prince Jerome having been formed by them as claiming a right in the succession, the family smocil was invested with cognisance of this new difficulty—that the conclusions presented on behalf of • It is worthy of remark that the court which so con scientiously recites a mew of facts irrelevant to its judg ment, carefully abstains from stating bete that this divorce was obtained entirely for Mrs. Paterson 's benefit, sad expressly reserved her own rights and those of her sou. James street, T Colonel V suicide b Blackfria The pi Aldermai right snit be examt, upon his to the of Colon. attempt 1 motive. ninon( sane and Colons: state to g confirms you will I else. The pr was perfc In • at able.look on the a she de& Ilr. In you Q% Withe oath ? 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