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A Reform Bill is, indeed, no strange event to this generation, even though the fever and excitement of 1830-32 has never been repeated. Successive Cabinets have promised reform, and have, some of them at least, performed their promises, so far as to bring in a measure which has afterwards melted into thin air. But the accession of Lord RUSSELL to power in the autumn of last year was accepted by every one as a pledge that Parliamentry Reform should be no longer a myth but a reality. Notwithstanding his manifest indifference of late years, and the inclination of too many of his col leagues and supporters to " leave well alone," it was felt to be totally inconsistent with Earl Rus- SELL' s reputation as a statesman, as it would be derogatory to his position as Leader of the Liberal party to allow a great con stitutional question to remain any longer unsettled. It certainly does not add either to the strength of the Government, or to the dignity of the House of Representatives of the people, that there should be a confessed need of an alteration which is never made. The deficiencies have been manifest enough, and the public feeling on the sub ject sufficiently strong to obtain direct recognition on more than one occasion in the Speech from the Throne, and to induce the heads of every party in Parliament to give assent to the principle of Reform. It is therefore imperative, if we 4() not wish to become a laughing-stock for i a • eintation and inconsistency, if we do not wish the people to believe, what is certainly not the fact, that the upper classes are resolved upon excluding them. from their share of political power, that the session of igGG should see the vision as sumeadefinite shape, and Parliamentary Reform not merely used as an oratorical weapon or party war cry, but brought forward for practical consi deration, and an honest determination to produce actual results. There is reason to believe that the ittssELL R e _ form Bill will confine itself to one point, cer _ tainly the most important; as it i s the most pressing. The ballot unfortunately numbers few supporters on the Ministerial benches. The redistribution of scats is a difficult and invidious department of the subject, which any Minister, not too secure of his supporters, m ay glady avoid ; the duration of Parliaments is a mat ter of comparatively little moment. The great point of the required Reform is certainly the extension of the suffrage. It is the present narrow franchise which most loudly calls for en largement from its manifest insufficiency and injus tice ; while the condition of the question supplies a ready argument to the demagogue and agitator, giving rise to a natural feeling or irritation and (jig content in the minds of a large and intelligent clx.ss. As the extension of the suffrage, then, is nava likely to he the most p rominent, if not the only, f ea ture of the RU SSELL Reform Bill, it is worth while to examine into the opinions of one of the ans o f the Whig par t y , as recently recognised org a bl e article. express ed in a very In an essay on the Extension of the Franchise in the current number of the Edinburgh Review, the as we might have expected , by Ilvariboteurrinbegghianr°d' to remove the stigma of delay and indifference from the shield of our present Pre mier. Ile attributes a good deal of the inaction to the natural rebound of the public mind from the excitement of the last generation, to the great re milts achieved in 1832, which have left few grievous abuses unredressed or acknowledged ; and to the ill-advised efforts of those agitators who have tried to identify Par liamentary Reform with a complete disorganisa tion of our social sysicAl and a servile imitation of the political constitution of o ther countries. The Englishman, averse to change, ai:: 1 proud of his national history, feels something like an old man when taught by one of the rising generation, ano. very much inclined to believe that he can teach the schoolboy more than the schoolboy can teach him. The writer of the article before us says truly enough that the examples of America and Australia have been frequently introduced on both sides, but, in fact, they cannot actually serve as either models or warnings, since the whole constitution of things is different. "The orders and gradations of society are engrained in all our associations, bound up with our history, fixed deep in our habits and memories. No laws can root them out, no act of Parliament can supersede them. Thus it is the influence of tradition which gives so much stability to our con stitutional mechanism ; and this is the reason why it cannot be transplanted. We cannot create an old people, or old associations, or an old aristocracy, or the pride of old memories. The Reform Bill of 1832 did nothing to uproot or diminish these, but only brought back the Constitution to its ancient form, and restored to its functions their legitimate action. The extension of. the mea sure, so far as the franchise is concerned, will be simply following the same course, and without doubt with the same result." Arguing from these premises, the writer contends that the admission of a large pro portion of the working classes to the franchise would, in reality, leave the relative positions of things very much as they are. Working men, he says sensibly enough, are very much like those above them. They will not all give their votes one way any more than the men of any other rank do so. They will be Liberals or COnservatives, as their humour or their natural tendencies prompt them, and as quite as likely to favour the one side as the other In fact the Edinburgh Reviewer hints that it is quite pos sible the Conservatives may eventually gain an ac cession of strength from the votes of the working► men, owing to the preponderance of the employers of labour on the Liberal side. Unfortunately for the cause the latter have in many instances, which not only affected the interests of the workingmen, but their own interests, ranked themselves on the wrong side, as on the measures for reducing the hours of labour, excluding young children from laborious employments, &c., &c.- If these gentlemen are taught a lesson by the class whose rights they always loudly advocate when they do not interfere with themselves they will perhaps profit by it. The Ballot, to judge by the Edinburgh, finds no place in the Reform category of 1866. It is spoken of with a virulent animosity which betrays that " the wish is father to the thought," of its insigni ficance. " The bugbear of the Ballot," says the writer of the article referred to, "is no very awful phantom now. Familiarity has robbed it of its terrors, and has bred the proverb into contempt. The sooner it is discarded, from any position in the Liberal creed the better. It was a mistake from the first, and nothing will now inspire it with animation." Undoubtedly the Ballot is a " bugbear" to a good many professing Liberals, as well as to their oppo nents ; for, althoigh purity of election sounds very well in declamation, and public virtue is always rigidly upheld in the House itself, it would be very inconvenient to apply it individually to every con tested election ! But, like other Reforms, it must come sooner or later, and the more we enlarge our constituencies the more necessary it will be, be , cause if we are to allow money to be the pre ponderating influence in the boroughs, we shall by increasing greatly the number of electors throw the representation virtually into the hands of those who can afford to pay the most for it, thus restricting our members of Parliament to the wealthiest classes, and failing to secure the great object of Parliamentary Reform— the full and fair representation of all political opinions by an enlightened and independent com monwealth. Very brief has been the time which the wisdom of Ministers has thought fit to allow for the con sideration of the Electoral Statistics. This is very extraordinary, to say the least of it, and besides very inconsistent ; because, what confidence can any one have that the measure - which Mr. GLAD STONE is to submit to the House to-night has been founded upon a careful examination of the reports upon which so much stress has been laid. It is to be regretted that a different course has not been adopted, and that a week at any rate was not allowed for people to .compare notes, and form opinions upon the subject of these returns. As it is, the public Will only have formed a very hasty opinion, and jumped at conclusions, as it were, before proceeding to investigate the particu lars of the new Reform Bill of the RUSSELL Ministry. It is so far satisfactory to find'from these tables that the working classes, as matters at present stand, are more largely included among electors than has been supposed by many. This is owingto various causes, foremost among which may be men tioned the rise in rents that have gone on for some time lately, until we find a very different class now paying rents of ten pounds to that which occupied these houses at the period of the former Reform Bill. At present the number of borough electors on the register of England and Wales at ten pounds is 463,548, while in 1832 the number was only 282,398. Those, therefore, who have made no progress since the time of the first Reform Bill in the matter of admit ting the working classes to the franchise, are now convicted of their mistakes and exaggerations, which ever the case may be. Indeed, it is not likely that any one r ea lly es ti mate d h ow l arge an a dditi on h a d been Made t o th e voters o f t h e ki ng d om o f wor ki ng meninjustice until had n il they pe o r t used these accounts. It is satisfac tory in two respects, since it shows that such great and deserving classo,bnae tn e h n de doneaolnsoe that ha t n o d those t t iesy politician orulemiatecriaoa any y s s are wrong wh en , increase to the list of voters, and, on the other, talk as if striking organic changes would b e ma d e i n the constitution of the country and the administra tion of affairs if the electoral returns contained an adequate addition of the labouring classes. Talking all things into consideration, it seems impossible for a ny measure to be successful that does not go deeper and further than the one which the Ministry has promised us for this evening. Merely to add to the number of voters, without at the same time at -0-- tending to the task of redistributing the suits will ba at once absurd and inconclusive. Indeed it will leave matters in a worse state than they are at present, and produce discontent in a great degree. The small and corrupt boroughs, which ought by rights to be sacrificed, may possibly be inconvenient to part with, but not the less must they be put aside to allow a more correct wad honest representation. Another mistake that some earnest and zealous re formers make is to be one-sided in their calculation. To obtain a fair representation the claims of the counties should be considered as well as those of the boroughs, neither more nor less, but in proportion to their requirements. A measure that accurately defines the wants of the population and adjusts the balance of power is not likely to affect any particular party in the State, or to, disturb the existing state of things ; but it will be productive of general advantages, and prevent the possibility of that agitation and excite ment so injurious to the interests of the community at large, and that disaffection among classes which is above all things to be regretted. Any measure which e^lls Short of these requirements can neither obtain the 1,._ • ne of the House nor t he countr y ; and a bill confiden, • Ilete. or prejudiced, will only 'neomy ~ that is partial, .._ liat it deserves, for tampering meet with the failure (~.. -ment is an insult to with a question of so much in,... the people. It seems doubtful whether the everlasting alb.— of the Duchies will be settled without an awkward contretemps between the two great German Powers, although it is constantly being stated that this and that proposition has been made, and will most likely bring matters to a satisfactory issue. On the other hand, it is as often declared that if the Prussian statesmen do not meet with the approval of the Austrian Cabinet serious results will fol low. At present the appearances are against a fearful solution of the mystery, and it is affirmed that in Vienna persons are speculating upon the probabilities of war between the two Powers. The Generals that had to discuss the ques tion of a war with Prussia before the EMPEROR were doubtless well informed of the nature of such a struggle, and it is certainly a significant circum stance that Field-Marshal RENEDELL has been telegraphed for from service. Of course, in the event of such a catastrophe concluding the vexed affair of the Duchy question, both countries will be on the alert to secure allies of more or less value. Much as this discussion between the two allies will be rejected, it will form an admirable satire upon the conduct and character of the two kingdoms and their respective Cabinets. The chief sign of a dangerous condition of things may be seen in the fact that the Gastein Convention is now made a fertile theme of discussion, and its test is differently interpreted to meet the views of the rival powers. Ac,cording to the judgment of the nations of Europe the terms of this Treaty conferred a great privilege upon the two Powers who had made the war and retired from it as conquerors. Expe rience has shown us, however, that nothing of the sort has taken place, and that neither party can agree as to where the power of Prussia begins and the authority of Austria shall end in these coveted places. Herr Von BISMARCK has over-reached him self, and trespassed too far upon the patience and forbearance of Austria. The result has been that the Vienna Cabinet has demurred to all his recent proposals, and flatly contradicted all his asser tions as to the meaning of the convention. So far as right and reason go the Austrian authorities have the best of the argument; for, read by the light of Prussian justice, Prussia would virtually rule in Holstein, besides actually doing so in Schles wig. It is difficult to judge of the case as it now stands, but a mere unpromising condition of affairs could hardly exist than we see at present in Prussia. On the one hand there is great discontent among the people at the conduct recently pursued by the Government ; and, on the other, the ally who has been faithful so long to her interests, now threatens to prove a very troublesome, if not a very dangerous adversary. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. ~_~_____ (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. A well-informed paper, in reference to the coming Conference at Paris, says the Cabinet of Vienna is determined to maintain the Treaty of Gastein until a definitive resolution in regard to the Duchies shall have been taken. The Prussian Cabinet still decrees the annexation of the Duchies. Accounts from Berlin to the Bth of March state that in his reply to the address of the twenty members of the Equestrian Order of the Duchy of Holstein, Count Bismarck repudiated the personal union of Prussia with the Duchies, but he openly declared himself in favour of the union of the Duchies with Prussia. He even announced that he should use his renewed efforts to obtain the consent of the Austrian Go vernment to this proposal. This is the first time that the Prussian Government has officially declared itself in favour of the union of the Duchies with Prussia. The letter of the Count de Bismarck is more important from the fact that for several weeks all diplomatic and official communications between the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna had entirely ceased. The Legislative Body yesterday rejected the amendment of M. Pouyer Quertier for a 2f. duty upon corn by 192 against 37. M. Thiers resorted to his favourite tirades against free trade, and de nied the increasing abundance in the produce of corn made out by the statistics recently published. He said that France was now exporting corn to England, which was the cause of the low prices of which the French agriculturists complained. The Government said to the agricultural interest make progress, but it ruined that interest. M. Rouher, Minister of State. That is the question ; it is you who ruins it. M. Thiers-1 withdraw the word if it wounds. M. Rouher—Then I withdraw the in terruption. M. Riess proceeded to argue that neither the Credit Foncier nor the Credit Agricole could benefit agriculture. Nothing could make agri culture prosper but remunerative prices. France need not imitate the example of England in this re spect. The position was not the same, and she could not, like England, take two-thirds of her consump tion from abroad. He contended that since the re peal of the Corn Laws prices had internally declined. When England had the great temerity to open the markets she obtained a great outlet for her cereals, and she did it for great reasons not applicable to France, and this market had become the universal compensator for universal, climacteric, and political circumstances. To continue in France the system pursued in England would be to commit a great imprudence. France could not always struggle against the universal market. A good or bad har vest could not change the state of things. M. Rouher replied very briefly to M. Riess, who, he said, had spoken in the dangerous spirit that cha racterised him. (The Chevalier assented.) For many months there has been not a strike, but a want of that harmony which ought always to pre vail in the orchestra between the musicians and the director of the opera. The latter has now granted the increase of salary claimed by the band. The increase of salary granted is, for the first class, 300 f. per annum, and for the second class, 200 f. The total increase will amount to 20,000 f. The 100th representation of Meyerbeer's " Africaine" has just' taken place. The receipts of the evening amounted to 11,000 f. The total amount received for the re presentations of this opera has reached the enormous sum of 1,600,000 f. Vive la Musique. Dauton's bust of Meyerbeer has just been placed in the saloon of the theatre. The pig disease excites increased interest. In addition to the despatati of two veterinary surgeons to Gerniany and Belgium to study the disease, AL Bouley, Inspector-General of Veterinary Schools, has been charged by the Board of Agriculture to collect information upon the subject. He has sent a report, of the salient points, of which I make a summary. It states that it is only in particular parts of Germany that illness . from frichines has been traced. In France, says M. Bouley, although the attention of medical men in all parts of the country has been awakened to the subject, no case of disease has yet been met with, neither amongthe rural population, nor in the army or navy, where the use of salt pork is so general. The same is the case in Belgium, for the fact of trichinose, said to have occurred in the province of Liege, was investi.. gated by two learned professors and disproved by their investigations. The use of salt pork, coming from beyond the Rhine, is very general in France ; and the question to be investigated is why the disease has not been manifested here, particularly as it is known to be highly infectious. The reason, no doubt, is simply because the people on this side of the Rhine and the other have different habits and modes of living. In Germany the breeding of pigs, chiefly of English race, is very extensive, because the consumption of pork is indispensable to the working population, who for the most part eat it raw. Emigrants from the poorer parts of Germany go to the various othei states where there is great industrial activity, and they eat scarcely anything but pork. It is used for sausages which are not cooked, but merely dried and smoked for 24 hours. The .report then adduces various facts and argu ments. The chief argument is that pork -nlv unwholesome when it is . not properly cooked. is 0- • - says there is no cause for alarm or M. Boule z -.my, however, to repeat that some anxiety. lam Gera y -ciion exist. real grounds for appreheu..• Societ ^raphical a curious At r theousandinteresting last meeting o f the paper was I- ad describing -- the journey of M. Guillamme Re y in the mountains of the Ansanes, which form the northern prolonga tion of the chain of the mountains of the Lebanon. This region had only been traversed in 1810 by Burckhardt, and in 1812 a French traveller—Cap tain Bonton—was murdered there. Towards the end of the 10th century this territory was inhabited by some of the Mussulman sect of the Ismaeliens. The chiefs of this dreaded fraternity persuaded their followers that the taste of the hachich was so deli cious as to give a foretaste of the delights of para dise. (The kachich was the flesh of men boiled by the hache or chopper), :and during two centuries the sect of the Hachichans, fun w hence the word assassin is derived, spread terror' A nd disma y throughout the whole of the East. After two or three days of terribly cold wind, enlivened occasionally with snow, sleet, and rain, to-day has been a real day of spring. It has been warm, bright, and sunshiny. The DeclaraVou of Paris must be Rezeincled. -.).-- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. " In my mind it (the Declaration of Paris) is the most im portant subject that can engage our attention. In impprtance I put it far before the question of Parlia mentary Reform, even when that question was a reality." —Mr. Disraeli, 17th March, 1862. ST. JAMES'S HOTEL, March 9. SlR,—Having seen in your impression of yester day that you treat as a proposition to be entertained, and consequently as of the highest importance to entertain and carry the reversion of the Declara tion of Paris, which deprives England of her mari time strength, I beg leave to address to you a letter, in answer to the idea that has arisen since Mr. Gi-egory's motion of the 2d of March, that the proposed change would be invaluable to this country as well as desirable for humanity at large. I put to you the converse proposition, that the only way to make the interests of this country and of humanity at large identical is to re-establish the law as it existed from time immemorial before a few individuals in a room in Paris, possessing neither delegated nor inherent authority for that purpose, by signing a piece of paper, pretended to alter it. The danger to Eng land, which it is said would be remedied by the abolition of capture at sea, arises, according to the statement of the new Doctrinaires themselves from this : that no enemy's property is safe under a neutral flag. They certainly do not exaggerate the change that that act has made in our position; but what I have to controvert is the deductions they draw from the events of the late American wan which, if true, would also apply to the case of our exercising our full maritime rights. Those deduc tionssuperiority of ships and il superiority of power in naval sailors aarofraaar doesme. o u Becau to se notgive i s h w , e t h a a t ve more ships at sea than other nations, they say that we must lose more. But surely the measure of our loss will be the measure and no other. Our s o h f i t p h s e w ishipsll be e e e m liablepl oy t e o d c a a g p a t i u r u s e t i i i sa , proportion, not to their number, but to the num l' i tr of the enemy. If we can send out more cruizers than any other nation, and if our ships are better manned and worked, we, exercising our natural belligerent rights, will destroy the commerce . of our enemy, as we have done over and over again in former The exploits of the Alabama and Shenandoahwars. are quoted to show the facility w ith w hi c h mer chantmen may be captured. ' Is this to be used as an argument against En gland and rnea,their having maritime depredations no Pw p oo ports e s rs o ? f built and manned, and wTe entering e i no v ng e l s yE s e na l gh s lil e w s h e t r op e ocr E at r ra n g ty o l i on h t oe l o ir own. asludehc T pour ra ft; forthhe an s h e ve ssels ncgr h a a f v t have i t provedthe h atE efficacy ngiand by taerchantment into pri tethha. It att we is he eDeclarationh this av e l hearde g i t i - m v o f a a t tepee pri vateers, has as saes o t sf o h oh c r o e n v r e r sht e e r re v n e o r g y ft,h s a 'nothing new by the American struggle as to the practice ra o en f e ck w h N a or Navy v yt h l uen hi e v hr e jLec a ot;d r h ig pa h v ! nn t gd o ,onh s a p yi e dm a , k pyr o soe n brav t h h ilc i ye s had more experience in practice of searching neu tral vessels for enemy's property than any of the present officers of our Navy. In consequence of that experience I have been in the habit of saying " that the strength of England lay in her fishing boats ;" meaning, that for the purpose either of cap turing enemy's merchantmen, or neutral vessels carrying enemy's property, the smallest craft suf ficed. The capture, by the Greeks, in their war against the overwhelming force of the enemy, was effected principally by row. boats. The American war is now history. If we are to study history i n relation to this subject, let us go a little further back. The clauses of the Declaration of Paris of 1856 were, only fifty-five years before ( 1801 ) , Russia's " Armed Neutrality." • Our best modern write r on i n ternational law, Mr. D. Harcourt (Historicus), after quoting the second clause of the Declaration of Paris, " a neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contra band of war," adds—" that is establishing the doc trine for which the armed neutrality contended." That is the real state of the case. It is not merely a Russian design, and a Russian design against England, but it is the basis of her whole scheme, and upon effecting it rests her chances of domina tion over the world. It is not England only against whom the blow is directed, but against France also. She is thus made to sacrifice all means of coercion or resistance against Russia and the United States, the sole Powers from whom there is anything to apprehend. England, then, little more than half a century ago, resisted the whole world in arms against her, rather than yield up that right which was secretly given away at Paris, and afterwards justified by the mere suspicion that one Power (America) might have opposed us had we refused to do so. We have here a test of the capacity of our present pub lic men, as compared with those of the beginning of the century. We now . give away our power to make war, because we fear that the assertion of that power may involve us in war. It is a capitulation without a contest. It has made it a peace which closed what we were told was a successful war. Whether successful or not, this is certain that the experience of the war (during which had waived this right) proved, if proof were required, the powerless ness of England without the right of search. Dur ing the course of the war forty Russian merchants went to the Foreign Minister to urge him to stop the trade with Russia, because it would cripple the 2 : esources of the enemy. He refused, because he could not afford to go to war with Prussia, to whom we had given a beneficial interest in the war by not searching neutrals for enemy's property. They had thus been let into the neutral trade, making profit of the blood of the belligerents. Mr. Collier stated in the House of Commons, Feb. 21, 1855, " that at the outset of the present war, the rouble fell from 38d. to 32d., and it was calculated that a financial crisis would have ensued had it fallen much lower ; that it would bring ruin on the landed proprietor, and bankruptcy on the Czar himself." He described the actual state of things in these words " The commerce of Russia had not been injured ; ten millions of British money had gone to Russia since the commencement of the war, and the rouble was again at par." This is England in 1855 and 1856. Trembling before such a Power as Prussia, and not seeing that, if it were true that Prussia would have declared war against us if we had resumed our natural right and stopped her from carrying Rus sian produce, it would have been far better for us than the actual position ; because any injury that she could have inflicted upon us as a belligerent would have been trifling compared to her interposing to prevent us from injuring our enemy. In 1801 England not only resisted, but successfully re sisted, all the European powers when they set up the same pretension, and did so by treating them as enemies. We find in the pages of Alison, " that on the 14th January, 1801, the British Government issued an order for a general embargo on all vessels belonging to any of the Confederated Powers (armed neutrality). Letters of marque were, at the same time, issued for the capture of the numerous vessels belonging to these States which were working to tho Baltic ; and with such vigour were these proceedings fol lowed up that nearly one-half of the merchant ships belonging to the Northern Powers at sea found their way into the British harbours." It was treating the neutrals as enemies that England put down that Confederacy. B u t it was especially Russia that felt its effects. A domestic revolution was the result 9f the action of England's privateers against the commerce of Russia, and the Confederacy was at once dissolved. Russia still remains vulnerable to the same weapons. Hero is the secret of the Declaration of Paris. But it is also the solution of how we are to escape from it. A Russian manifesto, in 1828, contained the words —" The Bosphorus is closed. Our commerce is annihilated. , The armed neutrality was not only dissolved, but every single power that had joined it acted upon the old law as soon as each became a belligerent ; notably Prussia her self ? Is not this an answer to the "irrevocability" of that declaration as attested by those who propose to go further ? Sir John M'Neil lays it down that this "effec tive check on the ambition of Russia" is held by Great Britain in trust "for the common benefit of weaker nations." It is as being then a protective power with re ference to others, as well as our only defensive power for our own security, that I invoke your aid in calling for the ~4nudiation of that unauthorised declaration. The ob stacle iu the way is the delusion which some aro seeking to spread, that the new scheme is something either better in itself or more practicable. If it is not practicable, it is useless to discuss its value, 1240 French Government attempted to have some stipulations introduced into the Treaty of Amiens in this matter. The reply to which on the part of the English Government is worthy of ali our attention : "It is wholly unprecedented to stipulate in a treaty of peace any limitation of the powers which the parties may think it expedient to make use of in case of war. His Majesty will never consent to place out of his hands in a treaty of peace those means which may be necessary for the sec:Pity of his dominions in time of war." The implica tion here is :!tat the use of our strength against our enemy is`a natural right, n•nd therefore one that cannot be given away. No Government can have power either in law or in sense to do so. But the especial folly of the project is this —that it is an engagement to be fulfilled only in the case of war ; that is when the nation in whose honour you are to trust has broken faith with and wronged you. While you cannot revert to the exercise of your rights without giving occasion to all other nations to accuse you 'of faithlessness, as the whole scheme rests upon all the powers becoming parties to it. Now let us look at it in its internal applica tion. The nation would be divided into two hostile camps, the ono part becoming rich itself and enriching the very country, in fighting whom the remainder was spilling its blood. The originator of the Right of Search and Seizure gives the neutral the means of making profit out of the blood of the belligerents. The private property scheme would enable tho merchants and shipowners of a nation to make profit out of the blood of their fellow-citizens. This must happen if you are to trade with and fight a nation at the same moment. The advocates of the new code, who have not, as some do, entirely overlooked the question of how England is henceforth to make war, seeing that if rated only a military power she sinks below Prussia, or even Italy or Spain, supposing that blockades ; are still to go on. The country, therefore, should know that already they are given up by the same persons who originally im posed the scheme of Mr. Gregory. Mr. Cobden has argued that they should be abolished. Mr. Sumner, speaking for America, and M. Hautefeuille for France, have done the same. Mr. Sumner entirely threw off the mask. After the affair of the Trent, speaking in the Senate, he pro claimed the abolition of all belligerent rights ..?t sea, immunity of private property, contraband of war, to lid abolished and blockades ; using the words " The statutes o{the sea, thus refined and elevated, will be the agents of peacd instead of the agents of war. Ships and cargoes will pass znchallenged from shore to shore, and those terrible belligeren: rights under which the commerce of the world has so long suffered will cease from troubling." We must remember that it is our dyna act that has given occasion to these big words. A treaty between America and Russia on the basis of the neutral flag covering the cargo was only signed in July, 1854, that is after we had waived our maritime rights by Order in Council, and the act was avowedly our own act. " When Great Britain and France, at the commencement of the present war with Russia agreed to act upon that principle for the time being, the Government believed that a fair occasion was presented for obtaining the general consent of commercial nations to recognise it as a principle of the law of nations."* The United States is also the very Power who has not given up her natural rights. She was made the bait for us, and has been kept out of the trap herself, not having joined the Declaration of Paris. This at least is clear, that there is no alternative between a capitulation into which we were cheated, and renouncing all means of naval warfare. For by what possible arguments could we uphold the interference with private property in blockad ing the ports of a country while we protect as sacred the merchantmen on the high seas ? Blockade affects neutrals far more than the right of seaech can do, the intention of it being to prevent all trade with the onomy.—Your obe dient servant, D. URQUHART. * Mr. Marcy to Mr. Buchanan, August 7, 1851. THE " BOHEMIAN GIRL" OF MR. BALFE is to be shortly produced at the Theatre Lyrique. THE TYCOON OF JAPAN has made a present to the Emperor Napoleon of 15,000 papers of silkworms' eggs, which have arrived at Marseilles. Tier Majesty the Queen has forwarded through Colonel Sir Thomas M. Biddulph, K.C.8., to the National Lifeboat Institution her usual annual subscription of £5O. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence, Grosvenor Gate. There were present—Viscount Courtenay, Viscount Curzon, Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir John Walsh, Sir James Fergusson, Colonel BrownlowNorth, Mr. Paget, Captain Surtees, Mr. Selwin, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Baggallay, Mr. Severne, Mr. Gooch, Mr. Grant, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Stearn Miller, and Mr. Treeby., PORTRAITS OF PITT AND 6ARRICK---reputecl to be by Gainsborough.—ln a recent auotion of miscellaneous old pictures, at Messrs. Foster's, two portraits, one of Wm. Pitt and the other of Garrick, sold, the former for 195 guineas, and the latter for 160 guineas. They wore both the property of a gentleman deceased, at Hammersmith, and were believed to have been painted by Gainsborough. ALEXANDRE DUMAS' LATEST ODDITIES I—" Daniel Lambert" is the title of Alexand Dumas' new drama, now in rehearsal at one of the Paris theatres. Dumas has just signed a new contract with the New Free Press of Vienna, to give it a novel drawn from life in Paris, the price £l,OOO. Very recently he was at Pesth, where the extra ordinary costume in which he delivered a lecture was the cause of considerable laughter. The lecturer appeared in the Hungarian national costume. OUR FRENCH NAMESAKE. —The Soleil of Paris contains a letter from Victor Hugo, in which the veteran writer declines the offer made by the editor of £20,000 for his new work, "Les Travailleurs de la Mer," which he intended to publish in the shape of a feuilleton.) Victor Hugo says : " Your offer is one of the most splen did ever offered to a writer. I aditit its magnificence, but the question of art is for me above all considerations, and your offer of £20,000 cannot overcome my scruples as an artist. lam convinced that Les Travailleurs de la Mer' ought not to be cut up into feuilletons. Perhaps that mode of publication would suit the romance of Quatre-vingt- Treize,' which is the work I am at present engaged on." SILK IN LYONS.—The town of Lyons consumes annually about 1,000,000 kilogrammes (about 1,000 tons) of silk prepared or spun in different ways. It takes four cocoons to weigh a gramme of silk ; the Lynonnese consumption amounts to 4,200,000 cocoons ; counting the length of a thread of cocoon equal to 500 metres, the amount annually spun by the Lyonnese industry would make, altogether, a thread of silk 2,100,000 kilometres long, or more than 14 times the distance of the earth from the sun, and 5,494 times that of the moon from us. It would pass round the earth at the equator 52,505 times, and 200,000 times round the circumference of the moors.—Builder. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MEXICO. By the arrival at St. Nazaire of the French mail steamer Louisiane, news has been received from Mexico to the date of February 13. The Moniteur in its bulletin records several engagements between the Republicans and the Imperial troops, which have resulted to the advantage of the latter. The Emperor Maximilian had returned from Cuerna vaca to Mexico, but after :arranging some impor tant affairs in that city he again quitted it on the 12th to rejoin the Empress, and to complete his contemplated excursion. The news from the district around Vera Cruz is favourable. The garrisons of Alvarado, Medelin, and Catastla, composed exclusively of Mexican troops, were behaving well. The line of railway to Orizaba and the road leading to Mexico had ceased to be interrupted by the bandits, the rural popula tion now taking measures to protect themselves. At Barrancaseca, a small town near Solidad, the inhabitants arrested and conducted to Vera Cruz three brigands, one of whom, Marco Vela, had been one of the leaders in the attack upon the railway on the 7th of October. The situation of General Mejia at Matamoras was satisfactory. The capture of Bagdad had caused an amount of agitation in the State of Ta maulipas, and had increased the audacity of Pedro Mendez, who had made an attack upon some local depots, in which, however, he was reported to have lost his life. The interior of the Empire was tran quil, and the sanitary condition of the expeditionary force extremely satisfactory. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 10, Three o'clock.—The market closed at the following quotations :- 41 per Cents 97 80 Roman — Do. end month — Ottoman Fives — 3 per Cents. 69 60 Mexican Loan Do. end month 69 671 Do. Bonds 307 50 Credit Mobilier ... 693 75 Russian Do. end month ... G 97 50 Austrian Bank Shares 3640 Spanish Threes ... Credit Fonder . Home Debt — Italian Loan 6l 90 Do. end month 62 07* Deferred VAT& Cash. Acct. ... 881 25 ... 1130 - ~. 905 ... 557 50 ... 570 - - 547 50 137 50 ... 408 75 - ... 417 50 Orleans Northern.. 66• • 6 000000000000000 Lyons and Mediterranean. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — ... 97 50 Roman — 118 75 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tht Day. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES.—CharIes Agreton, a young man bearing the aliases of Thompsett, Clifton, &c., was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt, on a warrant, with obtaining the sum of 10s. from Mr. Reginald York; of No. 45, St. James's-place, St. James's-street. Mr. Yorke said that on the 12th February, between six and seven in the evening, he was coming out of the St James's- Club, when he saw a person standing at the cor ner of the street. When he got to his door some one said, " Well, old fellow, I must offer you a thousand apologies for stopping you, but I want to speak to you." On turn ing round he recognised the prisoner as the man he had seen standing at the corner of the street when he came out of the club. The prisoner then told him a long story to the effect that he was a gentleman, and had been an officer in a Hussar regiment, and that like many other young men he had kept a young woman, led a dissipated life, and gone "down the hill." He mentioned the name of Nellie Harrison as that of the female, said he resided in Lupres-street, Pimlico, with her, and that he had seen her that day in the Burlington arcade, but that she passed him by, and the climax of the story was that he had forged his father's name to a bill for £450. He said Cox and Co., the army agents, knew all about him, and would speak of him, and on his asking for some money he gave the prisoner 10s., Relieving his story. The prisoner again saw him, and telling him that he was going to see Mr. Woodgate, one of the Oxford boat, at Richmond, he gave him some clothes to assist him in going. The prisoner also told him that his father kept a hall in Sussex, and his mother a villa at Venice ; but, from inquiries he (Mr. Yorke) had made, he found that he was not known at Cox's, at the War-office, that no such person of the name had a hall in Sussex, and instead of his mother being at Venice, she was in prison for an omnibus robbery. He had also ascertained that the prisoner so far ingratiated himself with a gentleman, a member of a c►ub, as to be invited by the gentleman to dine at the club, and that in the course of an altercation, the waiter having said something which offended the pri soner, he went to the waiter and demanded a sovereign as compensation. - - Sergeant Shillingford, 4 0, said the prisoner was once before charged with begging of a member of a club, but discharged ; and he was also once charged with represent ing himself as a detective agent. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner. BREAKING A WOMAN'S ARM.—Thomas Ryan, of 41, King-street, described as a ship's steward, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting his wife, Ann Ryan, and breaking her arm with a poker. Robert Beales, 134 0, said that shortly after 12 o'clock on Saturday night he was called to 41, King-street, and found the wife of the prisoner with her arm bleeding, and she said the prisoner had struck her with a poker. He took the prisoner into custody, and the injured woman went to the Charing-cross Hospital, and was still there, unable to move. The constable then handed the following certificate to the magistrate : " Charing-cross Hospital, March 12. " This is to cortify that Ann-Regan is a patient of this hospital, suffering from a compound fracture of the arm, " 0. W. BERRY, House Surgeon." The prisoner said his wife was as violent as himself, and did not wish to attend. She had once stabbed him. Fanny Seal, a lodger in the same house, said that between 12 and 1 o'clock on Sunday morning she heard the prisoner come up stairs, and directly he entered his room he walked to the fireplace, and took up a poker. Directly afterwards she heard the sound of three blows, and the wife scream out, and afterwards the wife said her husband had broken her arm. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoner, and he would not take bail. THAMES. How PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN THE PUBLIC ► STREETS. — Philip Hayward, horse-keeper at the King's Arms Tavern and livery stables in the Commercial-road East, was brought before Mr. Paget on a charge of furious driving and damaging property. Mr. John Morton Cronnin, a tradesman, of No. 10, Grosvenor-street, Stepney, was driving a horse and gig down the Commercial-road towards his own home at 9 o'clock last night, and saw the prisoner coming towards him with a horse and trap in the contrary direction. The prisoner drove most rapidly towards him and endangered his life. The witness, on being asked to explain, said he was proceeling at a gentle trot, and the prisoner came towards him, driving his horse at the rate of 14 or 15 miles an hour, and ran him down. He was much hurt, and his horse and vehicle injured. The prisoner afterwards knocked down another horse. The prisoner—lt is quite true what this gentleman says. Mr. Paget—He says you were driving along a public road at 9 o'clock at the rate of 14 or 15 miles an hour and ran him down. The prisoner—Not quite so fast as that. I could not stop the horse ; quite right what he says. Mr. John Barnes, coffee roaster, of No. 13, Umbustone street, Commercial-road, St. George-in-the-East, said the first time I saw the prisoner ho was on the top of the horse, cart and all. I was in a light spring cart ; my horse will not go at tho rate of more than three miles an hour. He drove right upon me ; ho knocked down my horse. I wonder he is here. He was on the wrong side of tho road. I never saw a horso go at such a speed as he did. The prisoner—When I sung out, did you not pull up yourhorso on its hind quarters ? Witness—No ; never: Richard Beeson, police-constable 309 K, said the pri soner had been drinking heavily and scarcely knew what he was about. The people said he was going at the rate of 15 or 16 miles an hour. Mr. Wm. Uffindell, the landlord of the King's Arms, said the prisoner was in his service, and-be very much regretted that he should have been driving a horse and trap and causing the injury as he had 'done. The prisoner had no right to take out the trap. Mr. Paget said it was the old story, a drunken man driv ing furiously and endangering people's lives and property. The prisoner said he was nearly as sober as he was then when the occurrences happened, and that the horse he was driving was struck on the headby a boy. Mr. Paget said there was gross carelessness, to say the least, on the part of the prisoner, and, addressing Mr. Uffindell, said he was ans wera bl e for the acts of his ser vant, and he (Mr. Paget) would postpone the determina tion of the case, and give Mr. Uffindell an opportunity of arranging the case out of court. He did not think he should do wrong in giving the people an opportunity of coming to an arrangement, and they might do it imme diately if they pleased. All the parties retired, and it was afterwards stated that Mr. Uffindell who is a tradesman of high respectab ilit y , had compensated Mr. Cronnin and bilr. Barnes. The pri soner was then discharged. •-• (DU rt Clan Tat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 11. Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High nesses Princess Helena, Princes:: Louise, Princess Beatrice, and her Serene Highness Princess Hohen lohe, arrived at the Castle yesterday at 2 o'clock, from Buckingham Palace. The suite in attendance consisted of the Duchess, of Roxburghe, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Hon• Emily Cathcart, the Hon. Florence Seymour, Major General F. H. Seymour, Colonel H. Ponsonby, and the Master of the Household. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Miss Longley and the Duke of Roxburghe arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal family. Miss Longley had also the honour of being in vited. The Queen, Princess Helena Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenlohe, with the Ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, attended Divine service this morn ing in the private chapel. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury preached the sermon. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Princess of Wales, attended by the 1 100 . Mrs. F. Stonor, took a carriage drive on Saturday'• The Prince and Princess of Wales had a dinner party on Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam. bridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge intend to hon our Sir Ralph and Lady Howard with their company a t dinner on Tuesday, 20th inst. A select party are invited to meet their royal highnesses. _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party on Saturday evening at Gloucester house• Covers were laid for 20. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath entertained the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount and Viscountess Royston, and a select party at dinner on Saturday at their residence in 13elgrave-square. The Earl and Countess Granville received a dis tinguished circle at dinner on Saturday at their residence in Bruton-street. The Earl of Sefton's party at Croxteth Park separated on Friday. Owing to the recent death of Lis lordship's aunt, the customary hospitalities at Croxteth , during the Liverpool race meeting, were considerablY abridged. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon received a small party on Saturday at their residence in Grosvenor street. PRINCE AL/RED AND THE MERCANTILE MARINE SERVlCE.—Liverpool is to be honoured in June nest by a visit from H.R.H. Prince Alfred, who has signified his willingness to distribute the midsummer prizes on board the school frigate H.M.S. Conway. The precise day on which the ceremony is to take place has not yet been fixed, but it will be towards the end of the ifionth. Our " Sailor Prince," who has for some time past been an hone rary member of the Mercantile Marine Service Association , has most kindly complied with the earnest wish of the cow mittee of management that his royal highness should hon our their ship by a visit. It is stated that Mr. S. R.. Gravest M.P., is to have the honour of entertaining his royal high ness during his stay in Liverpool. Goldsmith's " She Stoops to Conquer." ..--- REVIEWED BY THE " TIMES" IN MARCH, 1866. Though less talked about than either of She ridan's celebrated comedies, 4i She Stoops to Con quer," brought out in 1773, two years before the " Rivals," remains one of the few works of the last century which no change of taste or fashion ca n utterly banish from the stage. At the Haymark et Theatre it is usually played several times in th o year during the intervals that separate the arriv al of successive " stars" or the production of impor tant novelties, and invariably, we believe, it 1 . 5 found attractive. Its enduring popularity stands as a monument to managerial fallibility, for Col man, who ruled Covent-garden when it was offered for acceptance, considered that it had no chance of success, and reluclantly couseutei to its production through the mere influence of Goldsmith's stanch friend, Dr. Johnson. Nor does it seem that Col man's opinion widely differed from the standard of taste acknowledged in his day, far the established actors Woodward and Smith refused to play th e leading characters of Tony bumpkin and Young Marlow, making way, by their refusal, for the early advancement of Quick and Lee Lewis, and, though there is no doubtthat the play was triumphant on th e , first night, there is on record such a full account 0/ the personal efforts made by Johnson and lil a friends, who went to Covent Garden in a body to sure its success, that we can scarcely tell whether it was legitimately admired by the audience, or far upon the public by a powerful clique. The pr e l li, dices that existed nearly a century ago against s piece which, though it reflects manners totally cii° d reent from our own, is now universally estee med has been ascribed to a transient rage fora grav e sentimental sort of comedy, the chief writer o; which was Hugh Kelly. This gentleman, great i his day, is now scarcely remembered even by 0133 0; his plays being nether represented on the stage 11 ,, studied in the closet. It is, however, just pOSSIbi; that some of our readers may recollect that in 8 ; s old school-book called " Enfield's Speaker" there a scene from " False Delicacy," extracted as a t hin , proper to be committed to memory by an ingeni o 7 youth. , The same "False Delicacy" was iltig Kelly's earliest and most celebrated work. " She Stoops to Conquer" pleaces neither bY sparkle of its dialogue, like the " School for Se 3ll ; dal," nor by the ingenuity of its combinations a° the force of its principal situations, like the " 'r e ; lous Wife." Indeed the plot is at once so s li , g n t and so improbable as to favour the conjecture ti'" some primitive farce has been worked up into a rn ; act comedy. The mistake of a country mans ion an inn, deemed a sufficient foundation for a P i y a ,' • ss considerable length, the position taken 11 1- 7 130 Hardcastle, the very marked contrast betwe en ' ll two phases in the character of Young M arl e t b; almost seem to point to some old production 0' bo Italian stage, and we can fancy that the lady Nvoid " stoops to conquer" was once a C o l u mbiliet. 4 to Tony Lumpkin an Arlecchino. Of course/ it t,ro, the plot alone that we refer. The c harge s whencesoever their functions have been derived'ich coloured by Goldsmith with a native hum our 1 / 1 1 . ` 00 .. is perhaps more telling than wit, and ders the whole one of the most thoroughly x.'" lish works to be found on the stage. firm preei" This humour in the dialogue and the sion with which the personages are drawn, clis' i t to without exaggeration, are, perhaps, sufg ei s eil oo p3 account for the lasting popularity of "Sh e 0 tho to Conquer ;" but we may also call attention as circumstances amid which the action takes pre sent especially appealing to the symimthies of line lentil day. Old-fashioned travellers not u nfreq' s _ yet . enliven their journeys by rail with lamentatiou v oriti of the joys of the " coaching days," wad the tuaJ tixaeo t Englishmen have a sort of archaeological 0 , 3 . ' 0 the ir about them which is probably unknown 4 . 0 re- American cousins, and which prompts them e w ke pt gard the time when town and country werti not wide apart as an idyllic age which they co ts, to, they indeed recall, but which, in dreamy mom ell ec i e s of fancy must have been productive of a s p_ „ j oie simple but hearty enjoyment unknow n to till: rural of the 19th century. Mr. Hardcastle, with 0 01 predilections, is a country squire whose prejudices are of the popular sort, and M 1.5. 1 :„,t re' castle, with her fancy for a London life, ls _ on o garded as the less abnormal because her 8 " rr o vy jump with modern notions o f progress. ;hot Lumpkin is country-bred to th e backbone s. .n o f a the sentimentality that belonged to always somewhat later growth, and , therefore y i which his mains a favourite, t h oug h the levity wit . tr eated undutiful conduct to a doating mother eynb the e regarded circumstances may ditlicultl • es o lose their way on the road, and the to J° travel invented by Tony Lumpkin, " Elea " r r e p P e r l e ; sent those peculiar perils that belonged b ee ril e as a thatmer moral a d rl e o f e w e t a an d htihsef cif would b ee of the olden time. The whole story 'We were we f m orally, if not mathematically, impossible 1 to suppose Mr. Hardcastle's hous e in the vl a " station." 1 Ti atcl t coup accoi capit also Ac Thre ti rm , repo] shire Ti. Inat ( ever a Dor ( D o NPer (3W NOW D o . D o . Do , i .atik in Indi a , D o . D D . Do.. Do. Do. Ar ge , 4 .1.184 tra, z i Do, „D o 'xa; Do 4 4 „ 1) 4 11 1 P.O %4 84 ()0