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Our severe and protracted winter, the keen winds which followed so closely on a few balmy and genial days of early spring, played sad havoc with the aged, the infirm, and the very young. No sooner does the temperature show a change for the better than a corresponding alteration is percep tible in the returns of the Registrar-General. The 23d of March was cold and wintry, with falling snow and piercing winds. The deaths rose to 1,731. The three following weeks kept pace withtheimprove ment of the thermometer, and they are respectively 1,601, 1,453, and 1,372. It will thus be seen that last week's return indicates a greatly improved con dition of the public health, bAng indeed less by 109 than the estimated number. The depressing effect of severe cold has often been commented upon by the Registrar-General in opposition to the popular belief that extreme cold is healthy. No doubt some degree of frost is more generally beneficial than an unseasonably warm winter ; but we must always expect in severe weather to see the list of deaths rise in proportion. If every individual was in robust health and living in favourable sanitary conditions we might see less reason to regret the visitation of King Frost, but so many are feeble or poorly-fed or ill-clothed, or compelled, by the necessities of their occupation, to undergo prolonged exposure or ex treme exertion, that the practical test is very diffe rent from the theoretical. Well-dressed, well-fed people, hurrying from well-aired offices to comfort able firesides, may talk stoically of " fine seasonable weather," when the wind is piercing through half clad children and feeble old age cowering by an empty grate. Those whose employments, heal► by enough in themselves in ordinary weather call them continually out of doors, suffer severely from the extremities of the season, and must no doubt include among the unfavourable agencies of the winter the depressed condition of trade and business generally. With the return of spring we may hope for a better state of affairs, and there is reason also to look for ward to a favourable agricultural season. There are some points in the Registrar's return which deserve attention, and prominent among these are the deaths from smallpox and typhus. During last week the deaths from these diseases were re spectively 45 and 50. The old prejudice against vaccination still lingers among the poorer classes,and we can hardly► hope to see it rooted out until we have less ignorance to contend against. Those wbo foster this prejudice are very much to blame, since the fact is patent to all that smallpox has declined with wonderful rapidity since the discovery of Dr. JENNER, and no arguments or denunciations can contradict it. It is difficult now to realise the truth that, in the last century, one-eighth of the population died of this terrible disease, though every book and record of the time abundantly confirms the statistics. It is a question for our social re formers whether further steps may not be taken to secure the vaccination of infants who too often suffer through life from the ignorance or negligence of their parents. The prevalence of typhus is another point which demands attention. The overcrowding of our streets and lanes, the evils attending the thronging of our courts and byeways, are multiplying every day. We cannot expect fever to keep aloof when small rooms are tenanted by two or three families, when an ordinary eight or nine-roomed house is inhabited by 40 or 50 people. When we remember that the water supply in such places is extremely limited, and the drainage often deficient, we shall only be surprised that typhus does not demand still heavier toll. The accommodation of the labour ing classes in this busy metropolis is one of the most p.Aplexing of modern puzzles, but there are some sanitary reforms which might be carried out without waiting for the building of model lodging-houses or the construction of railways. The immediate removal of a person attacked by fever from one of these overcrowded houses is a measure dictated alike by common sense and humanity, yet it is very seldom attempted for want of proper and sufficient accommodation. To carry fever into the crowded wards of a London Workhouse is manifestly to in crease rather than diminish the risk of infec tion, while the general mode of conveyance—street cabs—is highly unsuitable and dangerous. Many persons shrink from performing necessary duties, and put themselves to great inconvenience and ex pense to avoid all possible risk of contagion, while quite unawares they are often in positions of great danger in the moit ordinary pursuits of life. No one can guarantee that the cab which they may call in the streets may not have just returned from conveying a fever-stricken patient to the hospital. Medical men have often insisted upon the great danger and absurdity of this practice, but until there is some regularly organised system for the conveyance of patients to the hospi tals we shall have one fruitful source of danger. The water supply, too, is a very important question, which will, we hope, be definitely considered this year. The cession ought not to be allowed to pass without some measures being taken to compel land lords to make proper provision for the reception and storing of water. The plan of every one in the house rushing with tubs and bowls to catch suffi cient till the next day is more fitted for some out-of • the-way village than a great metropolis. It is no wonder that cleanliness of every kind is at a discount in such places. The deaths of five persons killed by horses or carriages were registered in the week. They in clude two young children, two middle-aged men, and one old woman. Some short time since a good deal was said about providing for the safety of foot-passengers at our large crossings, but nothing has as yet been effected. Accidents occurring to children, however lamentable, must rather be at tributed to the negligence of their parents than to any avoidable cause in the traffic ; but when we find accidents s) constantly occurring to persons in the full possession of their faculties, we may feel sure that there is something wrong. The dangers of London streets are increasing rather than diminishing, and the loss of time itself becomes in these high-pressure days a serious in convenience. Of course, there must be many places where the plan of foot-bridges would be im practicable, but we should like to see it tried at least at some of the grand rendezvous of traffic, where, if it was found to answer the purpose in tended, it could be easily extended to the less frequented parts. In his ill-judged attempt to get the Government into difficulties, or at all events to place them at a disadvantage, Mr. OSBORNE has contrived to en tangle himself and his friends in such a manner that it takes a long time for them to extricate them selves. The whole affair was by no means worthy of the importance which Mr. OSBORNE affected to attach to it, and had it not been for the peculiar circumstances that surrounded its recital- 7 -the house being on the point of coming to a division—it would very likely have elicited neither comment nor inquiry. As it is, however, some of themembers of the Opposition side of the House appeared to have made themselves unnecessarily busy in the matter. There was no occasion for the meddling of Mr. OsBo RNE in the matter, and he has done himself no credit thereby. The conversation between Colonel TAY LOR and Mr. DILLWYN was private, and the account which Mr. OSBORNE gave was taken from an inac curate copy of 31r. DILLWYN'S note. There was no decided plan, as he would have made the House believe, between Colonel TAYLOR and hon. mem bers on the Opposition side, and still less any engagement on the subject of Mr. HOBERT'S amendment relating to the Compound Householders. On the part of the Government Lord STANLEY ccertainly disclaimed any knowledge of the matter, which statement was received with cheers from all parts of the House. Any one who knows anything of Parliamentary life is perfectly well aware of the frequent occurrence of such conversations as that held by COL TAYLOR and Mr. DILLWYN, and there was nothing in it to excite surprise, or give rise to explanations. Had, Colonel TAILoz been present on Friday he could have settled the matter in a minute ; and it does not improve the position of those who made such a fuss about the affair that they did not find out that the gallant member for Dublin could not take part in the proceedings of the House. The extreme anxiety testified that the House should understand the facts of the case came very ill from those who evidently did not or could not understand them for themselves, and the language used by Mr. OSBORNE at the time referred to showed very plainly the mean ing of the affair. Had there been a definite arrange ment made between any member of the Govern ment and members on the Opposition side it would have been very different, but as it is Mr. OsBoRNE has only shown his great readiness to interpose in a very uncalled-for manner, and to show his too ready disposition to make impertinent remarks on those whose conduct he has not given hi►nself the time and trouble to judge, and much the same may be said of those who approved of his proceedings. Count BISMARCK has already met with a decisive check, which will be all the more mortifying on ac count of his former great successes, and the sudden change is well calculated to dishearten him and to dispirit his followers. To make bad worse, the de feat followed upon the urgent request of the Minis ter to the House that it would adopt the views of the Government. The point at issue was the Fede ral military system—a very awkward subject to debate upon, and upon which differences were very much to be deprecated. Two amendments were proposed, the one by Count STOLBERG, and the other by Duke UJEST. Count BISMARCK favoured the adoption of the former one, which proposed that the strength of the Federal army should re main unaltered on a peace footing until after the promulgation of " a common Federal code of laws." Duke UJEST, on the other hand, de sired that the next five years should be looked upon as a period of transition, and that after that time the maintenance of the Army on a peace-footing, should be the same as hitherto, until after the promulgation of a code of general laws, and that even then the expenses of the army should be fixed by a special law, on the basis of the existing organisation. This scheme was evi dently a well-considered one in every respect, and well calculated to meet the end in view, but Count BISMARCK made a decided stand against it, and sought by every means in his power to circumvent it, but all to no avail ; for the good sense of the House triumphed over the plausible arguments and eager solicitations of the Minister. The Count said that this amendment would leave open the possi bility of a Parliamentary conflict on the subject of the army ; and certainly his recollections on this point cannot be very agreeable, but the question to decide was one of national importance, and consi derations of expediency were very properly banished from it. It would be better to run the risk of having ever so fierce and ever so many conflicts be tween the authorities and the representatives than to allow all prudent considerations to be sacrificed to the idea of settling things at once and for ever. Although Count BISMARCK refused to say if the Government would reject the whole draught, if the amendment of Duke UJEST were carried, the House was not daunted, and did not swerve from its pre conceived notion, but adopted the proposal by a majority of one hundred and twenty-two, which was, indeed, a defeat of a most significant character for BISMARCK. The amendment of Count STOLBERG was rejected, and yet another mortifica tion was in store for the imperious Premier of Prussia. He earnestly requested the house before the decision was taken upon the amendment of the Duke, to adopt instead a second proposition of Count STOLBERG'S to the effect that the Govern ment should have the choice of the time for pro mulgating a common Federal Code of Laws. He even went so far as to intimate that if this were not agreed to the Federal Governments would not agree to the draught, and it would very possiby happen that the task of drawing up the constitution would be frustrated at the last moment. Another awk ward episode in this sitting was the attitude assumed by the Polish Deputies, who, after voting against the whole draught, declared that they resigned their seats, as their last attempt to prevent the act of violence had failed; the said act, meaning their incorporation in the North German Confederation. To-day a sitting will be held to receive from the Federal Government communications on the subject of the amendments being adopted. At any rate dis union has shown itself very plainly in this attempt to lay down laws for the regulation of united Ger many ; and discord seems more likely to be the ruling spirit than harmony. Count BISMARCK is not likely to prove a very amiable auxiliary in the work of constructing the new constitution, now that he has been so signally defeated on a point of importance. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The 2lloniteur has re P c A ei ß v l e s d , despatches fronteni n g* the Havannah to the 22d March, announcing the almost simultaneous entry to the port of the ironclad squad ron commanded by Vice-Ad • miral Baron de la Ron ciere le Noury, and the Imperial vessel the Souvc rain, having on board Marshal Bazaine and his family. These vessels were immediately followed by the transport Navarin, Captain Clone, who has left the harbour of Sacrificios, after having given up the fort of St. Jean to the Mexican authorities. The Themis and the ships of war of the naval division of the Antilles were also at Havannah. From the ex cellent arrangements made no accident whatever occurred, notwithstanding the large number of vessels concentrated ; no less than 16 ships of war, carrying 200 guns, and crews amounting to 4,000 men. The bast understanding prevailed between the French and the authorities. The Souverain put to sea again on the 27th of March. Proceedings are about to be taken by the Govern ment against the Avenir National for having given false information of military preparations in pro gress at Lyons, and respecting the measures adopted by the War Department. On Sunday evening the Princess Mathilde gave a splendid entertainment, at which the King of the Belgians, Ministers, and persons of great distinction were present. Marshal Valliant, the Minister of the Fine Arts, Vice-President of the International Exhibition, has given a splendid official dinner to the members of the Foreign Commissions and Ambassadors of foreign countries. Lord Cowley, the English Am bassador, was among the guests. The hand of the Gendarmerie of the Imperial Guard played the National French air after dinner amidst enthusiastic acclamations. Persons of note from almost every country attended the evening party after dinner. Fabrications, or at all events suppositions, still abound upon the subject of Luxembourg. Perhaps the most trustworthy account of the day is that the three Great Powers, parties to the treaty of 1839, are engaged in official communication upon this im portant question, and that their object is to seek a solution of it in the first place irrespectively of France, Prussia, and Holland. When their exami nation of some intricate details shall be concluded, the Governments of England, Russia, and Austria will make known their views to France, Prussia, and Holland, and in concert with those Powers will endeavour to make an amicable arrangement which will be mutually satisfactory. In the meantime a report gains ground that the French btinistrT yiU make another communication THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN upon the subject to the Chambers, but probably not till after the Easter holidays. It is stated in a well-informed channel that Gen. Chazel, who is studying the state of military orga nisation in various countries was about to proceed to Berlin to prosecute this object. The Prussian Cabinet, however, made a communication to the Belgian Government expressing a desire that the General should postpone his visit to Prussia for the present, in order to prevent the idea that is con nected with political considerations which might engender alarm. The Constitutionne/ contradicts the report given by one of your contemporaries that there had been a Cabinet Council, which sat till a late hour in the night. I have mentioned all the Cabinet Councils which have lately taken place, and I have reason to believe upon inquiry that the time occupied at the last Council did not exceed two hours. Letters from Rome state that some degree of ex• citement has prevailed in that city for some two or three days. Letters from Garibaldi, and proclama tions from the Insurrectional Committee, had been profusely circulated of an exciting character, not o❑ly upon political matters, but calculated to excite uneasiness in regard to the Pope. The respectable portion of the population has no sympathy with those agitators, but their manoeuvres have some effect upon the lower classes. it is not, however, to a serious extent, as the influence of Garibaldi is almost entirely destroyed. An extraordinary case of a trance has just oc curred. A few nights ago a Monsieur R-, a merchant, residing in the Rue de Rivoli, gave a dinner in honour of the approaching marriage of his son. Among the guests was Adrienne L--, a young girl of 16. The family , fete having been pro longed till a late hour, and Adrienne being rather indisposed, it was arranged that she should sleep at the house. The next morning the merchant's wife, finding that the lady did not come downstairs, went up to her room, and finding she was asleep did not disturb her. Madame R--- again went up to her room at midday, and seeing the young girl in the same attitude she touched her. On placing her hand on the girl's face Madame R-- was horror struck at finding that it was as cold as marble, and she fully believed that she was dead. The body was rigid. A doctor was, of course, immediately sent for, and by his advice the formality of sending notice of the decease to the authorities was delayed. He believed she was only in a trance, and made some experiments usually practised in such cases. Having touched her even with a heated iron the symptom that life was not extinct was manifested. For some hours the girl remained in the same state, —that is to say, she did not breathe, and was quite inanimate. Oth er measures were r esorted to, a n d the girl soon gave signs of animation. The next day she was sufficiently recovered to go home. The English Protestant chape: at the entrance of the English garden of the Exhibition is now com pleted, and our countrymen may now attend reli gious worship without leaving the precincts of the Champs de Mars. The storm which has prevailed for the last few days has rendered it necessary to remove the covering of the gallery leading to the grand entrance from the Pont de Yena. Some of theornaments have been blown down. Only the two British lions have been able to withstand the storm. The weather was still cold and disagree able to-day, with frequent showers, and the at tendance at the Palace has been rather limited. The workmen seem to have taken advantage of the comparatively free circulation, for they have been more busy to-day than ever. Boards, ropes, lad ders, and the various appliances of the building are scattered in all directions, and give an idea of a more unfinished state than ever. They, however, completed their work very rapidly, and probably only a few days more will elapse before all is finished in the interior. There is, however, mach to finish in regard to the many surrounding build ings. Even the vestibule which forms the principal entry has been filled with workmen. It is a noble construction of grand and elegant proportions. It is 91 metre long, 15 metres wide, and"lB in height. cin e t e b ny Crank, This entry leads th e v i s i tor to t h e var i ous splendid representing of two beautifullrictor Victory galleries. The ar c hi tect, M. Alfred Leroux, has statues, j‘lst sti on Pr dhe placing crowning the French flag ; the other, by W W. Va lette, is an illustration from Scripture • The Ti juries have again been pursuing their labours. The task will probably not be finished for some days. MR. ROBERT BELL.—There departed from among us at 4 p.m. on Friday a gentleman whose name was well known to all men of letters in London, though it was not as common to the e ars of the world at l arge es are those of many oth ers who h ave, perhaps, done les s for literature. At that hour Mr. Robert Bell died, after an ill ness which had kept him to his bed for about three months, and left behind him few men who at their going will b e more deplored by loving friends. The work h e h as d one has been chiefly of that sort which operates most widely without receiving any impetus from the name or fame of the man who does it. For more than 30 years, we believe for more than 40 years, Mr. Bell has been a contributor t o per i o di ca l lit e r a ture, working both as a writer and as an e di tor. Dur ing that long professional life he has al ways k ept h i s head well above the wate r s by his own exertions, and has afforded ono of the few instances we have that literature taken in early life as a profession, and as an only profession, may be made the means and the solo means of maintaining an honour able career. Mr. Bell, however, did not work only as a contri butor of the periodical press. He wrote a novel called "The Ladder of Gold," which was well known a few years since, and may be well known again; he wrote a life of Can ning; ho wrote and p roduced on the stage, ns we think, three plays ; and he edited an edition of the British poets, which is, perhaps, at t he p resent moment his best-known contribution to English literature. But the peculiarity of Mr. Robert Bell's life has been this, that though by no means a pre-eminently successful man, though not enjoy_ seemed to justify his friends in expecting for ing that public success which his undoubted talents and acquirements hiinhehas through a long life been always helping others, and ' never wanting others to help him. Whether as a tuein ber of a public corporation at the committee of the Lite rary Fund, or as private individual who knew personally most of those who were successful in literature, and nearly all of those who were unsuccessful, he has ever been giving assistance. We who knew him well admired him for his wit, his genial kindness, his affection, his great social virtues ; but very many who did not and could not know him socially were bound to admire him for the constant support given by him to his literary brethren, and for his manly adherence to the interests of the profession which he had adopted.—Pall-mall Gazette. [We are requested to state that the funeral of the late Mr. Robert Bell will take place at Kensal-green to - morrow(Thursday), at 12 o'clock.] Loss OF TIIE STONEWALL JACKSON AND ALL ON BOARD.—The fate of the barque Stonewall Jack- . son, which sailed from Liverpool, via Cardiff, for the Cape of Good Hope, on the 22d of January, has been cleared up by a report from Captain Jones, of the Inman Company's I steamer City of Manchester. On the 18th.of March, when the City of Manchester was on her outward voyage to New York, and when off Kinsale about 3.30 p.m., a barque with the British ens i gn ho i sted, un i on d o wn, was sighted, and Capt. Jones at once b ore up for h er . I n reply to a signal of what was requir e d , th e captain ( R usse ll) of the barque said his vessel was the Stonewall Jackson, of Liverpool, and that she was sinking. An offer was made to take the distressed crew on board the steamer, but it was declined. Capt. Jones then asked if ho should take the vessel in tow. To this Capt. Russell consented, but refused to send his own boat for the tow-line. Under the circumstances No. 4 boat of the steamer was launched, and the chief officer and six men pulled alongside the barque, and succeeded in making fast a cable. The vessel was then taken in tow, but some time afterwards the line parted, and a fresh Manilla repo was put on board the barque, together with an extra cable. The steamer then proceeded at half-speed, the night coming on very dark, though the Old Head of Kinsale light was vis ible. When off Kinsale Harbour it was noticed that both the tow-ropes were rather slack, and on a test being put to them it was found that they were loose. They were then hauled in, and on being examined it was found that they had not snapped the eye-holes being perfect, and Capt. Jones and his officers thinking that the barque required no further assistance, as the ropes had been clearly cast loose by those on board the Stonewall Jackson, proceeded on his voyage. With the exception of a piece of wreck washed ashore near Kinsale, Ct to p t. save lt us salvages el l and whi c h h as b een identified as having been a p or t i on of the barque, no thi ng h as s i nce b e en heard of her, and there can be no doubt ,frommoney, cast off the tow ropes motives of his own, probably a desire when off the mouth of Kinsale Harbour, attempted to enter, and in doing so came to grief, with all on board. The boat and men belonging to the City of Manchester had a narrow escape. When coming alongside..the steamer from the barque the boat was swamped, but the men were saved. The Stonewall Jackson was 468 tons register, was built at Liverpool on the composite principle, and had a crew of 22 men. FEMALE OVERSEERS IN ENGLAND.—At the Barn staple Petty Sessions, held on Wednesday week, two ladies were elected overseers; Mrs. Slocombe for the parish of Bittadon, auk firs. Craug fur like palish of Bratton NG, APRIL 17, 1867. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, April 17. An imperial ukase has been published to-day, placing the financial administration of Poland under the control of the Russian Minister of Fi- nance. The official journals Northern Post and Invalide continue to discuss the Luxemburg question in a sense favourable to the maintenance of peace. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, April 17. It is not yet known whether the King will go this year to Carlsbad. Ilis Majesty will in any case re main in Berlin during the sitting of the Prussian Chambers. The projected visit of the King to the Paris Exhibition has not been relinquished. An official declaration has been published here with regard to various rumours current as to Prus sian armaments. The declaration states that, with the exception of the inreased organisation in the line and Landwehr begun last autumn and now completed, rendered necessary by the new acquisitions territory, no special military measures have been at present adopted. The Rhenish fortresses are not yet armed. No unusual demands have been made upon the fire-Arm fac'ories. The stock of needle-guns in the depots was already sufficient to furnish the arms required without further examination. In to-day's sitting of the North German Parlia ment Count Bismarck announced that the Federal Government have resolved to adhere to the consti tution as voted by Parliament. He therefore for mally declared the constitution of the North Ger man Confederation adopted both by the Parliament and by the Governments, and read a royal message stating that his Majesty would close the Parliament in person at noon in the White Saloon of the Royal Castle. PORTUGAL. LISBON, April 16. The tumults in Oporto on account of the new taxes have been suppressed by the military without loss of life. Count Aguilar, President of the Cabinet, is seri ously ill. A change in the Ministry is considered imminent. The King will set out for Paris in Easter week. ENGLAND AND SPAIN. MADRID, April 16 (Evening). The Prize Court at Cadiz has declared the cap ture of the Queen Victoria by the Spanish cruiser to have been illegal. The Epoca considers that by this decision the dif ference between England and Spain in this matter is terminated. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 16, Two o'clock.—Considerable agitation prevails in the market to-day, and quota tions are undergoing almost the same violent fluctua tions which were the consequence of the war ru mours of the past week. Italian Fives, which of all stocks appear to be the most susceptible to ad verse influences, are again distinguished by a fall of 1. per cent., the price at this hour being 48f. 25c. French Threes, too, are quoted at a decline of 50c., viz., at 66f. 43c., and miscellaneous securities are all Icing offered at sensibly lower quotations. Credit Foncier have fallen to the extent of 30f.--to 1,320 f. Credit Mobilier have receded 15f. 75c.—to 363 ; and Comptoir d'Escompte 13f.—to 727 f. The railway market is likewise heavy, with a similar downward tendency in quotations. Three o'clock. The market has closed as follows : per Cents 96 10 Do. end month ....•: 3 per Cents. 66 70 Do. and month 66 57i Credit 111obilior 367 50 Do. end month 370 Credit Foneier — Do. end month 1320 RAIL' Bank Shares Italian Loan 4B Do. end month 4B Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Art.ll3. For Account. Orleans Northern 1122 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 876 25 Southern _ Western Eastern 520 Sardinian Austrian — Lombard 375 North of Spain — __. SaragosEa 9O Ditto to Barcelona _ _ Roman . PUNCH'S CARTOON To-DAT—meaning John Tenniel's—might set the London Charivari up (if it wanted setting up, which it doesn't !) for a month to come. It is delicious ! The title of it is—" They're Saved ! They're Saved!" Derby and Disraeli—muffled up in furs against the unseasonable weather—the Earl driving helter-skelter the Sledge" Reform"—the member for Bucks sitting by him with the propitia tory bantlings by the sacrifice of which the hungry pack of wolves careering in the track are to to be got rid of little by little. Two of them have already been abandoned to fate—and you see in the perspective a cluster of wolves wrangling over the bones of each—here, the "Resolutions," there " Dual Voting !" Dizzy has still, cuddled up in his arms, two others of these sacrificial bantlings, ono labelled " Residence," the other " Personal Rating." Hungrily, still, upon the track pant, side by side with the flying Trave lers, such leading wolves of the pack as Gladstone and Bright ! The world of comic significance thrown into the features of Dizzy and Derby being just simply indescribable. They must be looked at—and, looked at, they are safe to be roared over ! Bravo Punch! Vive la Bagatelle ! FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Volunteer Arms, Wantage-road, before Mr. W. D. Wasbrough, coroner for that division of Berk shire, on the body of Mr. William Ireson, a contractor, who met with a frightful death on Monday afternoon. For a considerable period the deceased bad held the post of " ganger" on the line, but relinquished it recently, and provided the company with the horse labour required .at the above station. On Monday afternoon ho had charge of one of his horses on the siding, and incautiously led it across the down line at the moment the express which leaves Paddington at 4.50 approached at full speed, the train not being timed to stop at Wantage-road. The un fortunate man and his horse wore both struck down with fearful force and instantly killed, and ono of the company's porters, being knocked down by the horse, was injured, but not seriously. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci dental death." HORRIBLE SCENE AT AN EXECUTlON.—Yester day morning the young man, James Longhurst, who was recently convicted before Mr. Baron Bramwell, on the Home Circuit, of a most aggravated murder of a child named Harriet Sax, was hanged in front of Horsemonger lane Gaol, in which he had been confined since his convic tion. Yesterday morning, the appointed hour having ar rived, he was conducted from his cell to be pinioned, upon which a shocking scene occurred. At sight of the executioner he was terror-stricken and resisted violently. The chaplain addressed a few words to him, which for the moment appeared to pacify him, but when the executioner attempted to pinion him he struggled frightfully, and it took four or five warders to restrain him. He was at length thrown upon the ground, upon which another struggle ensued, and he kicked severely the warders who were Irving to gain the mastery over him. As he lay in that position, exhausted, his arms were strapped, and i.e was then raised to his feet. He walked towards the scaf fold, attended by the chaplain, but at the sight of it he appeared to be again seized with a feeling of horror, and he struggled with all his might and main to release him self, but in vain. He was dragged up the steps by the warders, and held under the beam until the rope was ad justed. In that state of things the rest of the preparations were hastily made, the bolt was drawn, and the convict soon ceased to liva. PROLIFIC RABBITS.—Eight years ago 14 rabbits were turned out in Mr. Austin's estate of Barwon Park. The number of their progeny shot last year on this estate was 14,253 ; and in spite of this destruction, and what goes on outside the estate, they have swarmed over the neigh bouring country, and have been futtud at considerable dis • tances arQuclo—Melbourne LITERATURE. La Liberte de la Presse et le Suffrage Universe!. Par M. Dupont-White. Pp. 79. Charles Douniol, Paris. A remarkable paper appears in the current number of Blackwood's Magazine—a paper entitled " Universal Suffrage and the Ballot." It takes into consideration those two great principles as they are known to operate in the United States of America. It is the result, manifestly, of mature deliberation on the part of a philosophic observer, on the part of one who has clearly thought the matter out thoroughly for himself, who has made his own calculations, who has drawn his own conclusions, who has scrutinised facts and figures with his own eyes, and weighed the whole matter quite indepen dently in the balance of his own individual judg ment. Whoever he may be—for this contributor to Maga, of course, writes there quite anonymously, affording us not even the clue to his recognition afforded by one of those half-masks of a nom-de plume placing within our reach the chance of a just possible detection of his identity—Whoever, we say, the writer of this able and vigorous disquisition upon Universal Suffrage and the Ballot may be, would, or we are indeed mistaken, be among the first to appreciate the importance of this other political treatise (upon a kindred subject and having a kindred title) produced some time previously, not as an anonymous contribu tion to a periodical as eminent as Blackwood, but in the form of a separate and distinct brochure, having its author's name frankly affixed to it, and setting forth his arguments therein with all due emphasis and deliberation, in reference to the political situation in France, not in America —in regard to a Despotism, not to a Democracy. " La Libert6 de la Presse et le Suffrage Universel" is the succinct title of this last indicated, though in point of publication this much earlier-issued dis quisition ! M. Dupont-White—a name well-known and highly appreciated among Parisian politicians —is the author of it. Its appearance was by a significant, and we can hardly help calling it by a really impressive coincidence immediately anterior to the imperial foreshadowing of those constitutional changes in the Governmental machinery of France by which the Emperor Napoleon 111. recently affected at least to take the initiative (at last) in the long delayed work of—it is his own phrase—Crowning the Edifice. Whether sooner or later—through the agency or operation of these just-named constitutional changes—the Edifice is in very deed to be Crowned, or not—certain it is that the announcement of them by the Em peror himself, was immediately preceded by the publication (chez M. Charles Douniol, Rue de Tournon, 29) of M. Dupont-White's searching and remarkable disquisition Sur la Liberte de la Presse et le Suffrage Universel. As significantly it was so —as that M. de Lamartine's " Histoire des Giron dins," directly preceded the events of February, 1 848. It being, here, in neither instance, implied by us, of course, that the connection between the two was as that between cause and effect—the coincidence in each case being in this place simply pointed out as a coincidence. Yet even so regarded—that is purely as a coincidence—each has obviously its significance. Directing attention, however, more particularly in the present instance to the eloquent brochure of M. Dupont-White, in respect to " Liberty of the Press and Universal Suffrage," it may be as well to remark at once that he enters into an examination of those two vitally important themes—themes of more especially vital importance to the forty odd millions of the French population —as a friend of one and (almost) as a foe of the other ! As a champion or vindicator at any rate of that 2Egis of all Liberty among civilised communities, nobly entitled, here in England, by Edmund Burke, " the Fourth Estate !" As the avowed adversary, at any rate, of the in discriminate and wholesale application to all such results, of that potent " popular right," according to some (teste Bright), that mere " political privilege," according to others (teste Disraeli), the right or privilege to vote for the election of legislative representatives. In other words—M. Dupont-White is heartily and en thusiastically for Freedom of the Press, and, if not against, certainly very cold-bloodedly in favour si", Universal Suffrage ! For the one, and, almost avow edly as we have said, against the other with the fervour, devotion, and enthusiasm of a publicist who, though in intellect a philosopher, is in heart and soul intensely and essentially a patriot. Perhaps, for that matter, we should rather here have said that, strictly speaking, M. Dupont-White is with enthusiasm in favour of Liberty of the Press ; while, on the other hand, he is abso lutely indifferent to, if not actually contemptuous of, Universal Suffrage. Nor can his comparative dis dain for the latter be very much marvelled at if on ly it be borne in mind, for example, that out of the furnace of Universal Suffrage, out of the crucible of the Ballot-box, there have come, on the one hand, a pure Democracy as in America, and, on the other, a pure Despotism as in France. Give me—that is France (our pamphleteer almost seems to say in so many words) Liberty of the Press, and I care not for Universal Suffrage ! At any rate, by comparison ! That is, to all intents and pur poses, the gist, that is &e gravamen, of M. Dupont-White's whole argument : that is the back bone of his entire disquisition. Fletcher of Saltoun spoke not more sententiously or more emphatically of the primordial value of the gift of song inspiring the popular ballad-monger, as compared with the authority devolving upon those legislators and a dministrators among whom so little wisdom is said to be in any way an essential qualification, accord ing to the cynical dictum of Oxenstiern. Freedom of the Press, M. Dupont-White does not, it is true, regard as an absolute political panacea. But— short of that—he is its eulogist to the very utter most. He regards it as the first essential. He is apparently content to restrict his demands to that and to that alone—as a commencement. Liberty of the Press first and foremost. Anything else you please afterwards. The exordium of his pamphlet —for the brochure is essentially oratorical in its tone—the exordium of his pamphlet is perhaps the very best part of it all. In it he descants upon—how shall we better designate it than by the very word itself ?—the decline of the national esprit of France—that esprit which is the arch indication of the genius and of the aggregate idiosyncrasy, so to speak, of the people—of the whole race of Frenchmen. Public Affairs he regards as having sunk almost inde scribably in value in the national estimation-'—as having dwindled into utter insignificance as com pared with matters of the most frivolous character. At the first turn of the leaf, by the way, on opening this pamphlet, we find disdain for Universal Suffrage in the words " qu'une base toute materielle ne suffit pas a fonder les gouvernements." And, confronting this on the opposite page—under the axiomatic assertion " l'esprit baisse en France"— we encounter this most sorrowful reflection on the part of a philosophic politician like M. Dupont- White--" h faut "litre bien jeune pour n'avair pas menzoire d'un temps ou la chose publique tenait plus de place dans les esprits, et trouvait des esprits plus eclaires, plus informes, plus curieux d'un avenir par dela fin courant." Now, on the other hand, as the s Client signs of the general decadence, to what does he point ?—" an the'atre, la desuetude du sijflet: le gout, c'est le digora," and so forth—while, around him, he recognises—"popularite croissante des journaux creux, des spectacles sus, des romans trousses, de tout un art enfin qui s'appele realisnze et que j'appelle cynisme, pour le choix qu'il fait de certaines re'alite's. la witness of all which he ap peals to the unanimous testimony of those hommes ((esprit et ('experience, who have passed their whole time in directing the public journals—such as they are—men whose testimony, he says, cannot be dis dsined, adding (as he says this), very finely, " sont a l'egard du public comme le cavalier qui a la tongue habitude d'une monture et qui la sent mollir, delaillir sous sa main etentre ses jambes." Referring to the ancien regime—in one sense almost wistfully— he regrets in regard to it what he calls " the nobility of taste, the elevation, and the intellectual culture distinguishing an epoch—formal sometimes, but passionate and sensitive to great things. . . In those days," he says, "you might speak of thQ corn merce des bus like Galiani ; you might even be A foundling or the son of a cutler without its being of any consequence or any obstacle whatever to your ad vance. Art and talent saved all ; les yens d'esprit, les chose: d'esprit were both esteemed, pleasures d'esprit being, moreover, eagerly sought after. . . That epoch had, at least, this advantage over us, that each man then invented his own esprit, his own judgments, his own mots. People did not care to repeat or to adopt them, to take them ready made (so to speak) from infinitely small litterateurs and comtesses de lansquenet, as they were called for merly, or from the representatives of commerce as they are termed nowad iys." Nothing could well be more felicitous than the terseness with which our pamphleteer not only comments, but in commenting illustrates, and by illustrating goes so far as to de monstrate, if we [night so express it, the cogency of his reasoning. Hear him, by way of exemplar, where he takes occasion to remark " La science aujourd'hui senzble dire que la lunziere est chaleur, et que la chaleur est force. Or, l'histoire nous raconte un esprit jrancais tout semblable a ce cosmos, tut esprit dont la clarte fait I'ardeur et dont l'ardeur fait le proselytisme, la propagande a main arrne'e." The eclecticism, so to speak, of his sympathies, one could hardly better illustrate than by refer ence to what he says in the way of intellectual vindication, so to speak, of the First Empire, which, as he remarks, if it had not a great living literature of its own, left behind it at least the theme for it and the inspiration , the fruits of which are destined to appear later on. Besides which, as he observes, 11 caused the name of France to reverberate throughout the world—of itself matter for epical, for lyrical, above all, for tragical celebration, being for that matter for a whole people an addi tional reason of itself for aspiring to be free ! And now —as the culminating point of his whole argument—he remarks elsewhere (as sententiously as emphatically)—" The only thing this country wants in order to be free is—the Liberty of the Press." La settle chose qui manque ace pays pour etre libre, c'est la liberte de la presse. Having said which all that need, here at any rate, be observed in regard to M. D apont- White's masterly pamphlet on the " Liberty of the Press and 'Uni versal Suffrage" has been already remarked. It is- - or rather let us say at once, it was—as the clarion trumpet-note giving the signal, we are almost tempted to assert, for those constitutional conces sions in regard, among other things, to the accord ing somewhat more of freedom to journalism 10 France, which have, at least, marked one addi tional step towards the Crowning of the Edifice by the Emperor Napoleon 111., as chief of the State and head of the Government. That already, to A considerable extent, France actually at this moment does possess the priceless boon, aegis, palladium , right, privilege (call it what you will) of Liberty of the Press, this very brochure by M. Dupont-Whit e affords of itself a very signal attestation. An d so long as the journalism of France can find Bue ll vindicators as the author of this philosophic argu ment on " The Liberty of the Press and Universa l Suffrage," his countrymen need have no apprehen sion but that sooner or later there must come, 3$ come there will assuredly, that Crowning of th e Edifice which has already been foreshadowed -- when the political pyramid in France, the pyrami d based already upon the broad material foundation s of Universal Suffrage, will be perfected by th e completion at last of its still unfinished apex! Con spicuously fluttering from the summit of which--o ur pamphleteer would seemingly suggest—will eventw ally be a banner not unworthy of being placed ther e side by side with the glorious gonfauon of France' here the banner of a Free Press, there that of the imperial eagle and the golden bees. tonal tirtraar• lIER MAJESTY, &c• WINDSOR CASTLE, April 16. The Queen and Princess Beatrice rode on pool° in the Home-park this morning. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, went out walking. Prince Leop old also went out walking, attended by Mr. Legg. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline J 33 1", rington, the Hon. Flora Alacdonald, and Lord Alfren, Page, went to London last evening, and hono ur .l the performance at the Haymarket Theatre lot, her presence. Her royal highness afterwards r° turned to Windsor Castle. Lord Skelmersdale has succeeded Lord Raglan AS Lord in Waiting. The hincess Christian. Her Royal Highness the Princess Christian's 1 1: covert' goes on favourably, and the infant prince quite well. • Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridg°' accompanied by the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, left St. James's Palace, on Monday, for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the Easter holidays. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary and tit° Prince de 'Peck leave town to-morrow to join their 013' tives at Kew. T The Duchess of Somerset has left Brown's M ote for Bulstrode Park. The Duchess (Eleanor) of Northumberland I' ll : arrived at her residence in Whitehall-gardens, from v isiti t the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield, at Sherborne Cast.- Oxfordshire. The Earl and Countess Percy left town yestcrdsl for Albury Park, Surrey, to pass the Easter recess. Pt The Earl Granville will entertain a large par t i r Walmer Castle for the great Volunteer Review at D°l/6,-(i His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl e io Countess Spencer, and a large party are expected t° among the guests. The Countess of Granville was confined on St ill' day last, and gave birth to a daughter. (er The Rev. Thomas Claughton, vicar of K icl- dl ie minster, has been appointed by Lord Derby i° Bishopric of Rochester. THE DISPUTE WITH SPAIN.—The belief is g ai f ing ground that, at the eleventh hour, the Spanish Ge Ve- t ment will make the concessions required of them in cases of the Tornado and Victoria ; and some o f our el; temporaries have gone so far as to assert that co ncilint° 4 o overtures to that effect have already been receive d by "tio Foreign Office. We are sorry to weaken this favull ts o impression, but we believe that up to this moment, 01 communications from Madrid, in reply to Lord Stanley demands, though not couched in unfriendly or defiant /$0 guage, have been of an evasive and unsatisfactory clu' lle , - 00 and are far from warranting the sanguine expectat'", which in some quarters have been founded on the Herald. 0 0 0 We learn by telegraph that at a nuo 3 e r- r e meeting of the Norwich Political Union last night °Lie test and remonstrance against the Governme nt Ite' of Bill was adopted. A copy will be sent to every niciul)c the House of Commons. , 0 00 MR. GLADSTONE AND REFORM.—Mr. Glacl3-0, has sent the following letter, in reply to a vot e of Co-01 dance which had been passed in the right hon. gentlerli,,f;lo, leadership by the Guildford Reform Association 11, Carlton-house-terrace, April 14.—Sir, —I bog t° knowledge with gratitude the letter and resoluti oll l : o ig e have been good enough to address to me. You wil l 0 41 observed the division last night, and it will probabli : j ot/ you to an altered estimate of any power possessed bi.)Deg' to improve the Reform Bill of the Government. 400 however, to assure you that my attachment to the d xO4 end in view is unaltered.—l have the honour to V W. E. GLADSTONE.—Mr. E. W. Brooks." - A 1\ Annow ESCAPE.—On Wednesday after'vel as Messrs. Parton and Page were driving down g ill- :0 01 in a dog-cart, a little girl about four 'years 0 1 d , - :fee l ; M'Nulty, ran from behind a cart standing in th e be She was knocked down, and the wheel passed O.Vr 4o lY: chest, grazing her chin slightly. She was take° Fry's immediately, but on examination it wa s foul'''. she had not been in the least injured, the wheel it were, given a sort of jump over her.—. l / a idsta ne THE NEW NOVEL, " RAYMOND'S it be "If this book," says The Examiner, "be a first no,ren one of the best first novels published of late ye'l l ' e , 60 1 ' story is original, and constructed with a ma sterl y otic; The development of character is natural, though Afi:ll and the main character, 'Raymond's Hero ine' is (iO/ fine touches. Another merit of the work is thatittefl to rue is natural, and its narrative always well Wrio'i°; The book is one of those which are worth reading pe There will ba as many smiles over it as tears, i : 3 4 llll merit is at the close of the last chapter, in a th cl : happy end."