The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

Will be published on March 30 , Cd , "T H E cIIR O N I C E." A WEEKLY REVIEW. Containing— ]. A Critical Summary of Events. 2. Volitical and Literary A rticiee. 3. Notices of English and Foreign Books. Office-24, Tavistotek-street, Covent-garden. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chutterton. TEAS t,VENING, FAUST. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. E. Fhelps, F. Barsby, Fitzjames. C. II treourt, W. 3l'lutyre, C. Warner; Mesdauies Hermann Ytz n, H. Vandeuhuff, and Isabel Adams. To emmlude with, 'WANTED. HUSBANDS FOR SIX. Mesdames Lydia Thompson, H. Broughton ; Messrs. Barrett and E. Cliiton. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, dole Lebsee and Manager, Mr. Bucks one, TI IS }WEN DAVI , ) GARB K. 3lessrs. Sothern, Buckston,-, Chopp •hdale, itolzers, Claris, Coe, .vc ; Musdamcs Titoore, Chippendale, Frtz~cillia~u, &o. Alter whict, TUE SKRIOUS I A3IILY. Mess , s. Buck stone, HoA e, Faire,), Vihmnt, &c.; 3lesdamcs L.hippendale, Moore, Hill, Sidney, Burke, &c. 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Not his speech alone, but his general tone and bearing' seemed to herald the approach of bitter and un compromising hostility to the Ministerial mea- sure. This was the more dangerous, because his words were not uttered hastily, and he did not take a cursory view of the matter, so we could not put down his eagerness to condemn to any mistaken notion he had imbibed and ex pressed on the spur of the moment ; on the con trary, his language was premeditated, and his lan guage could in no way be considered an extempore reply to the speech of the Chancellor of the Exche quer, for all who commented upon it styled it a prepared one. What are we to infer from this ? Is there to be another party struggle, another of those combinations, coalitions, or confede- rations, such as have twice before driven Lord DERBY from office at the time when his Government was winning golden opinions from the country, and scattering to the winds the absurd notion that the Conservatives were the enemies of all progress, and could never be of any use as statesmen ? This may not be the case, bu all we can say is that it looks very like it, and we hope that the house and the country will be on the alert, and watch how and in what manner the new measure of Reform is treated. Mr. GLADSTONE is a master of words, and can always make anything appear as he likes the way he puts it, but it wilire quire more dexterity than he possesses to show us why it is politic and patriotic to do this session - - what it was most unlawful to do the last one. We all remember his virtuous indignation, and his fiery declamation about the opposition he and his friends met with in the task of introducing their Reform Bill ; and now, from all we can gather, he seems contemplating how to go still further, and take more comprehensive steps to impede the course, if not to stop altogether the progress, of the present scheme submitted to the House. The bill of last year was allowed to go into committee, but if either party carry out their supposed intentions the bill of the present year will not reach that enviable goal. Is it too late to hope that the Opposition will re consider their ways, and try to follow a more patriotic course? We really believe that a great many members, who blindly follow their leader, would take quite a different way of thinking if they paused to reflect upon the consequences of their actions. How will it appear to the country at large if they again witness the spectacle of a wasted session? if they see anew the cause of Re form at a standstill, and are told to wait for a more convenient season ? 'Will not the general verdict be against them, and will it not be said,with truth, that through party prejudices and mean jealousies a chance has been thrown away and a good opportunity lost? What has been the conse quence of the bitter hostility which was shown by the Liberal leaders to the Conservative Reform measure of 1859 ? Has it not more than verified all that was predicted by impartial observers and far-sighted lookers-on? Nothing has been done to settle the matter, though it was attempted to be dis posed of several times, and the best proof of the unfair treatment which it met with may be found in the fact that, since that time, it has be come the fashion to praise the provisions of a mea sure they denounced in toto. If, after the lapse of eight years, we are to have a repetition of such a policy, it is, indeed, much to be regretted, and nothing can possibly excuse those who commit themselves to such a course. We may well ask what it is that offends these opponents of the Ministerial scheme so much ? Is it that the bill is too good for them ? Does it go too far in the right direction, or what is it they cavil at? For the sake of consistency they can hardly say it is not sufficiently liberal, when it goes much further than the Liberal scheme of last year. At any rate, we would warn Mr. GLADSTONE and his immediate followers that they are playing a dangerous game, and one in which to win will be the worst that can befall them. The loss of their opponents will not be their own gain, but the blow will rebound on themselves, and they will bear the consequences of the ill-advised opposition themselves. Be fore the excitement of a great debate comes on it will be well for people to collect themselves a little, and to look the future in the face. The present Government have come forward with no niggard hand ; they offer Reform iu no stinted and no sparing fashion. Are they to be badgered and baited? is their attempt to settle the question to be frustrated, and the year to be wasted ? For what ? To please the vain desires of disappointed statesmen, to satisfy the morbid jealousy of those who have had their opportunity and fallen short of success ? The answer to these queries can hardly be in favour of the souse which is presaged of the chief members of the Opposition, but we do not believe that the fate of Reform is in their hands. We hope that the House will refuse to sanction their desire of obstructing the scheme now proposed, and if it fail in this, its manifest duty, an appeal to the judgment of the country will show them their mistake. The attention of the House of Commons was yesterday given to the consideration of Church Rates, and no less than three bills were on the paper—Mr. HARDCASTLE'S for Total Abolition, Mr. NEWDEGATE'S Commutation Bill, and Mr. HUBBARD'S Regulation Bill. The second reading of the Total Abolition Bill was carried by a ma jority of 76, but the discussion which took place was not at all an animated one. Mr. WALPOLE'S definition of the Government policy was the most important feature in the debate. The right hon. gentleman explained that they were ready to keep to the compromise which they had proposed in 1857 —namely, to exempt Llie Dissenters after the manner proposed in Mr, HuBBARD's Bill and in other ways, but that THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, _MARCH 21, 1867. they could not consent to the unconditional aboli tion of the Church Rates. Mr. GLADSTONE was in favour of the Bill, intimating that in committee he would wish to see inserted the machinery for voluntary rating. It was a fact that the right hon. gentleman's scheme of last year for settling this question was not carried out, for it seemed to offer a very satisfactory mode of dealing with the matter. Mr. NEWDEGATE'S Bill was thrown out, and Mr. HUBBARD'S measure was postponed till next Wednesday. We should be very glad to see some settlement of this vexed ques tion, which has too long been made a subject of dis cussion and - a fruitful source of religious contro versy. It would be better for all parties if some compromise was made, and at a future period the question of total abolition could be disposed of. It is to be hoped that some consideration will be given to Mr. HuBBARD's scheme next week; and it really has a great chance of success, if hon. members could once forget to be so extreme in their views. The consequence of both sides being so arbitrary has been that nothing effectual has been done for years, but if they would but consider a little they must see the propriety of doing something to meet the wishes of the people in this matter, which has so long been a source of confusion and controversy. The telegrams from Bombay give us a more en couraging account of the general aspect of affairs. Money, indeed, is said to be scarce ; but the public health is good, and we may hope that this year, as it advances, may prove more favourable for India as fur England. The disastrous famine has, of course, made itself felt in regions where it never actually penetrated; and its indirect as well as its direct effect upon the industry and the fortunes of the whole country must be taken into account in surveying Indian affairs. We earnestly hope that at least it may be productive of definite and lasting good, and that the hundreds and thousands who suffered and perished will not have suffered in vain. The authorities are bound by every consideration of duty, as well as of hu manity, thoroughly to investigate the whole matter, and to ascertain what are the best and surest means of preventing the recurrence of such a tragedy. It is idle, if not wicked, to talk about the uncontrollable nature of the calamity, when it is absolutely im possible that it can steal upon us unawares, with a pestilence, au inundation, or an earthquake. Such ca tastrophes are not only out of our ken, but if weknew of their approach there is little we could do to avert them or to mitigate their severity. But the gradual failure of the crops can not only be foreseen but provided against, since our resources are boundless, and we have all the appliances of skill and science at our command. Surely then it is a lasting re proach to English rulers that so many should have died of actual want of food. The Government seem anxious to encourage the progress of public works, and we are glad to see that it is expected the East India Railway from Mir zapore to Jubbulpore will be opened before the next monsoon. The establishment of a thorough system of communication throughont India will be an in valuable assistance in guarding against famine as against other dangers and catastrophes to which India is liable. Had we done our duty years ago in this matter the suppression of the mutiny of '57 would have been a very different task. Sir SEYMOUR FITZGERALD, the new Governor of Bombay, was hourly expected (Feb. 28), and will, we hope, fulfil the anticipations which have been formed respect ing his career as an Anglo-Indian administrator. The scenes which attended the closing of the thirty-ninth American Congress and the opening of the fortieth were of a character that would not a little surprise an English Parliament. Just now, when there is so much criticism and censure of our own representative assembly, it is not without profit to examine the accounts given by eye-witnesses, and familar with the whole history of the political situa- tioa across the Atlantic. As is usually the case the last days of the Session were overcrowded with , business. Ili e need not wonder that this year found a great accumulation of neglected measures, since ,here has been so much disputing and disagreement .hat there has been little time for any thing. It is customary for the PRESIDENT to go down to his private room in the capitol to sign the bills hurried through their last stages at the close of a session, in order to save time ; and some idea may be gained of the general confusion and hurry from the fact that Congress continued sitting all Satur day night, breaking up on Sunday morning about 9 o'clock, to re-assemble in the evening. The Radicals, never at a loss for a political manoeuvre, took advantage of this state of things to hurry through the Army Appropriation Bill with two new and startling clauses. They knew very well that such clauses, if introduced openly, would never obtain the PRESIDENT'S sanction, since they were in direct opposition to the old constitutional forms, and invaded the prerogative of the PRESIDENT himself. Hurried as he was, Mr. JOHNSON, watchful, no doubt, for any manoeuvres of his adversaries, de tected the obnoxious clauses, and found himself in au awkward position. To refuse to sign the Appro priation Bill was to keep the army without pay for a whole year—a manifest impossibility. To sign it was practically to hand over the command of the army to the general in charge, and to take away from the States the right to defend themselves by calling out the militia. Under these circumstances Mr. JOHNSON probably followed the wisest course by signing the bill under protest, stating his rea sons for signing the bill, but indicating the provi sions against which he protested. The new Congress was not likely to be very dif ferent from the old one, and if we are to accept the division on the vote for Speaker as a test of the strength of parties there is not much chance of the Democrats influencing the legislation. The votes for the Radical candidate, Mr. COLFAX, were 127, for the Democratic 30. It is true that Mr. COL FAX'S chance was naturally improved by his tenure of the office during the last Congress, but there can be no doubt that the extreme party have still a very large preponderance. The position of the Southern States is, of course, the question uppermost in men's minds, and it is one which there seems little or no chance of settling. Seventeen States excluded from representation in Congress, seven of them actually belonging to the world-famous thirteen, seems anachronism too great to be continued. Nevertheless there seems no doubt that the Radicals are determined to maintain their policy of exclusion coute qui conic, and it is currently believed that the new Congress will be more violent and vindictive iu its policy than the old. A scheme for a confis cation of rebel property in the South is talked of as well as the impeachment of the PRESIDENT, which has been under discussion for some tune. Thus one-half the States are to legislate on the most im portant matters for the other half, and this is called a Union. The only hope is that the extravagance of the party may thoroughly disgust the quiet and reflective part of the communtiy, who will recognise the danger which threatens the country through their intolerance. Should the Radicals bring about, as it is most likely they will do, a disturbance of the finances, both North and South will suffer for their recless folly, and they may find too late that, by their abuse of the opportunities of peace, they have damaged the national credit and destroyed public confidence in the speedy restoration of their fortunes. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, I PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, March 21. The Emperor has addressed an autograph letter to the Committee for the Control of the Public Debt, expressing his complete satisfaction at the manner in which they have conducted their labours, and conferring upon each of the members the Cross of Knight of the Order of Leopold. The rumour published by the New Free Press of the concentration of a corps of observation upon the Turkish frontier, and the reports circulated at Agram of sanguinary conflicts having taken place between the people and the authorities in Dalmatia, arc officially denied. HUNGARY. PESTH, March 21. The Austrian Ministers, at present staying in this city, are expected to leave to-morrow evening, for Vienna. CROATIA. FIUME, March 21. Herr Smaich, the Civil Captain of this town, has prevented the departure of the deputation to Pesth. THE ELECTIONS IN BOHEMIA. PRAGUE, March 20. The new elections to the Bohemian Diet have re sulted in the almost unanimous return of the former Deputies. SPAIN. MADRID, March 20 (Evening). The Official Gazette publishes addresses from various State bodies concurring in the recent cir culars of the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs relative to the attacks made by the foreign press upon the Spanish Government. A Royal decree has been issued appointing the Marquis of Miraflores President of the Senate. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, March 20. The Nyanza and Tanjore left at 5 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 26th inst., and the latter at Southampton about the 2d April. SUEZ, March 20. The Nubia, for Calcutta, &c., and the Salsette, extra steamer for Bombay, sail this evening. CHINA AND JAPAN. NEW YORK, March 20. The Pacific Mail Company's steamship Colorado has arrived at San Francisco with dates from China to the 17th and Japan to the 27th February. The Japanese Embassy to Washington are among her passengers. Her cargo includes 270 chests of tea. The American Minister at Pekin was in high favour with the Imperial Court. The Chinese Government resisted all efforts made to obtain authority to construct a railroad through Mongolia. The French were about to make a short road from Shanghae to Leichow. The Russian fleet was to sail for the Mediter- ranean. Piece goods were firm at Hongkong. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 20, Two o'clock.—A somewhat better feeling is displayed to-day, and the down ward tendency of quotations would appear for the present to have been arrested. Transatlantic shares are at 445 f., or 2f. 50e. better, and Imtno biliere at 325 f., an improvement of Bf. 75c. Three per Cents., Italian Fives, and Credit Mobilier shares show no appreciable variation, the respective prices being 69f., 53f. 90c., and 470 f. Credit Foncier have advanced 10f., to 1,490 f. There ii no feature of interest in the Railway market. Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fo] Lows : 44 per Cents 9B Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 Do. end month 69 02i Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Fonder — Do. end month 1482 50 RAIL' Bank Shares 3560 Italian Loan 53 80 Do. end month 53 90 Mexican Loan 22 50 Do. Bonds lB2 50 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred 'ATh. For Account. Orleans Northern 1202 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 926 25 Southern 578 75 Western. — Eastern r 548 75 Sardinian B5 405 Austrian — Lombard 412 50 North of Spain lO5 SaragosEa ll6 25 Ditto to Barcelona Roman. — The Government Land Measures for Ireland, Lord Naas has shown a laudable anxiety to im prove the condition of the Irish farmer by enabling him to borrow money from the. Board of Works for land improvement, payable, principal and inte- rest, i n 35 years, at 5 per cent.; or, if he prefers using his own capital and labour, to do so—both being the first charges on the land, which the proprietor must pay in case of eviction. To protect the land lord the tenant without his consent cannot obtain such loans for house or offices, as he might otherwise expend too much, to the injury of the owner. Such is, we believe, the outline of the improve ment Bill. But he has brought in a second, to enable landlords tied up by entail and family settlements, where they are strict tenants for life, to grant 41 years' leases where the tenants build houses, and as long as 31 where they do not, thus giving the power to proprietors and tenants to make voluntary arrangements. This bill should be extended to ena ble the London companies in the north of Ire land, the Ecclesiastical Company, and other public bodies, to grant similar leases for agricultural pur poses, and 99 for building sites, factories, villas, &c. We cannot see on what grounds the Irish farmer can oppose such reasonable terms. Our English farmers, who generally hold at will and on custom, would be delighted with such an offer. Yet we hear the misnamed farmers' friends, the Irish agitators, will oppose it; but such factious opposi tion will be put down by the good sense of the house. There are more leases in Ireland than in England or Scotland, many of them for ever—for 999 years —for lives renewable for ever—for 61 years and 31 years, with three lives or a life in reversion. Yet these leases at low rents have not improved the farming or agriculture of the country, the owners of such becoming gentlemen, and not farmers. Ten million acres of the best lands in Ireland are in permanent pasture, giving no employment, instead of being tilled and cultivated as in Scotland and England. In Ireland the great proprietors have not raised their rents during the last 30 years, though stock, butter, and grain have advanced. Beef, mutton, and butter being up 50 per cent. in the same period a great rise has taken place in Great Britain, so that the Irish farmer, on the score of rent, has little to complain of. Uutil the system of tillage be introduced on the large farms and good lands there will be little em ployment for the people. In Berwickshire, East Lothian, Fifeshire, Northumberland, Lincoln, and Norfolk, on farms of 700 acres, there will be paid in wages £1,300 to £1,400 a year, while on the same extent in Roscommon, Meath, Limerick, and Tippe rary about £5O to £6O ; hence the emigration from want of employment. Subscriptions to the amount of £2,000 have already been remitted. REPORTED RIOTS AT NEW YORK.—A telegram from New York, dated Monday last, says : —" Several riots have taken place, and collisions between the Irish and the police haye occurred. Many person ta hayo been injured." HOUSE OF COMMONS—MARCH 20. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. Order for Second Reading read; motion made and question proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months." Question put, " That the word now' stand part of the question." The House divided Ayes, 263 ; Noes, 187. AYES-263. Acland, T. D. Foley, 11. Morris, W. Adair, H. E. Foijambe, F. J. S. Morrison, W. Adam, W.V. Purdy, e, W. Murphy, N. I). Agar-Ellis, L. G. Forster, C. Nicholson, W. Agnew, Sir A. Forster, IV. E. Norwo ,d, C. Amberley, N is. Foster, W. 0. O'Beirne, J. Anatrutht.r, Sir R. Fortescue, C. P. O'Brien, air P. Antrobus, E. Fortescue, D. F. O'Conor Don, The A yrton, A. S. Gaseiee, S. O'Donoghue, The Aytoun, It. S. Gaskell, J. M. Oliphant, L. Baraiy, A. C. Gavin, Major 0 Loghlen, Sir C. Barnes, T. Gibson, T. M. Onslow, G Barron, air H W. Gilpin, C. 0' i.eilly, .)1. W. Barry, C. it. Gladstone, W. E. Osborne, it. B. Bass, A. Gladstoae, IV. H. Otway, A. Bass, M. T. Glyn, G. G. Owen, Sir H. Baxter, W. E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Padmore, It. Bazley, T. Goldsmid, J. Parry, T. Beaumont, 11. F. Gower, F. L. Pea,c, J. Beaumont, W. B. Goschen, aJ. Peel, A. W. Berkeley, 11. P. Graham, W. Pelham, Lord Biddulph, Col. Gregory, W. Peto, Sir M. liiodulph, M. Greville, Col. F. Phillips, it. N. Blake, J. Gray, Sir J. Pim, J. Blennerhassett, R. Grey, Sir°. Platt, J. Brand, H. Gridley, H. Pollard Urquhart W Bright, Sir C.T. Grosvenor, Lord R. Potter, E. Bright, J. Grove, T. Potter, T. B. Briscoe, J. Gurney, S. Price, W. P. Bruce, Lord C. Hadfield, a Pugh, D. Bruce, H. A. Hamilton, E. W. T.Rawlioson, Sir H. Bryan, G. L. Ilankey, T. Rebow, J. G. Buller, A. W. Ilanmer, Sir J. Robertson, D. Butler, C S. Harris, J D Rothschild,BaronM Buxton, C. Hartington,Marqula Rothschild, BaronN Buxton, Sir T. F. Hartley, J. Russell, A. Caleraft, J flay, Lord J. Russell, 11. Candlish, J. Hayter, Capt.A.D. St. Aubyn, J. Cardwell, E. R. Headlam, T. E. Samuda, J. (Arington, C. Henderson, J. Samuelson, B. Carnegie, C. Henley, Lord Scholefield, W. Cave, T. liibbert, J. T. bcott, Sit W. Cavendish, Lord F. Hodgkinson, G. Scrope, G. P. Cavendish, Lord G Holden, I. Seely, C. Cha a: bers, T. Holland, E. Seymour, H. D. Cheethain, J. Horsman, E. Sheriff, A. Childers, 11. C. E. Howard, C. W. G. Simeon. Sir J. Cholme.ley, Sir M. Hutt, air W. Smith, J. A. Clay, J. Inuliam, Robert Smith, J. B. Clement, W. J. Jervoise, Sir J. Speirs, A. Clinton, Lord E. T. Johnstone, Sir J. Stacpoole,; w. Clive, G. Hunt, G. Stanley, W. Cogan, W. H. King, J. L. Stansteld, J. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kinglake, A. W. Steel, J. Collier, Sir It. P. Kingecote, Col. Stock, 0. Colvile, C. R. Knatchbull-Hugess Stuart, Col. C. Cowen, J Lacon, Sir E. Sullivan. E. Cowper, H. F. Layard, A. H. Sykes, Col. W. H. t owper, W F Lamont, J. bynan, E. Craufurd, E. 11. J. Lawrence, W. Taylor, P. A. Crawford, R. W. Lawson, J. A. Tomline, G. Cremorne, Lord Leathern, W. Torrens, IV. T. M. Crossley, Sir F. Leeman, G. Tracy, 11. Davey, H. Lefevre, G. J. S. Trevelyan, G. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lewis, H. Vandelenr, Cl.o De La Poer, E. Lowe, R. Vanderbyl, P. Dent, J. D. • Lusk, A. Verney, Sir H. Dering, Sir E. Mackie, J. Villiers, C. P. Dilke, Sir W. Mackinnon (Rye) Vivian, J. Dillwyn, L. L. Mackinnon, kLym.) Warner, E. Dodson, J. G. 111`Lagan, F. Watkin, E. W. Doulton, F. 31'Laren, D. Weguelin, T. M. Duff, It. W. Marjoribanks, D. C. Western, Sir T. Dundas, F. Marsh, M. H. Whalley, a H. Dunda,-, Sir D. Martin, C. W. Whatrnan, J Dunlop, A. M. Martin, P. W. Whitbread, S. Edwards, C. Matheson, A. White, J. Eliot, Lord Merry, J. Whitworth, B. Ellice, E. MI illbank F. Williamson, Sir H. Enfield, Viscount Mill, J. S. Winnington, Sir E. Erskine, J. E. Miller, W. Woods, H. Evans, T. W. Mills, J. It. Wyld, J. Ewart, W. Mitchell, A. Wyvill, M. Ewing, 11. E. C. Mitchell, T. A. Young, G. Eykyn, R. Moffatt, G. Young it. Fawcett, H. Monk, C. Elides, J. Monsell, W. Finlay, A. S. Moore, C. Fitz Gerald, Lord 0. More, R. J. NOES-187. Akroyd, E. Forester. Gen. Newdegate, C. Archdall, Capt Freshfleld, C. K. Newport, Vie. Arkwright, It. Garth, ft, Noel, G.. 1. Baggallay, R. Gilpin, Col. North, Col. Ba_ge, W. Goddard, A. L. Northcote, Sir S. H. Bagnall, C. Goodson, J. O'Neill, E. Bailey, air J. Gore, J. It. 0. Packe, C. W. Baillie, H. J. Gore, W. K. O. Paget, R. H. Barnett, H. Graves, S. It. Palk, Sir L. Bailey, C. Greenall, G. Parker, Major W. Barrow, W. H. Greene, E. Patten, Colonel...W. Barttelot, Col. Gray, Lt-Col. Bateson, Sir T. Grey T Paull, H. Powell, F. S. Bathurst, A. A. Gritith, C. D. Read, C. S. Beach, Sir M. Beach, W. Beecroft, G. S. H H a a m m il l t t o o n n: L i o . ! r d . C.J. it R jedpiteoyn: Sir . M. 1, 3 y.. Hartopp, E. B. Robertson, I. F. Bentinck, G. C. Harvey, it. B. Russell, air C. Benyon, tr. Hay, Sir J Schreiber, C. Bernard, Col. Fleatlmote, G. H. Sclater-Booth, G. Bingham, Lord Heathhcote, Sir IV. Scourfield, J. H, Bourne, Col. Henley, J. W. Selwyn, H. J. Bowen, J. B. Henniker, Lord Selw y n, C. J. Bridges, Sir B. W. Herbert, P. E. Severne, J. E. Bromley. W. D. Dilityard, T Seymour, G. H. Brooks, It. Hodgson, W. N. Shumate, W. B. Bruce, Major C. Hogg, Lt-Col. Smith, A. Bruce, Sir H. Holford, R. S. Stanhope, J. B. nudtley, E. Holmesdale, Vie. Stanley, Lord Burrell, Sir P. Ii them. Lord Stokford, S. G. Cartwright, Col. Hubbard, J. G. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Cave, S. Hunt, G. W. Stucley, Sir G. S. chatterton, H. Innes, A. C. Surtees, F. Clive, Capt. G. W. Jervis, Captain Surtees, H. E. Cobbold, J. C. Jolliffe, IL Sykes, C. Cochrane, ic A. D. B. Kerslake, Sir J. B. Taylor, Colonel Cole, lion. H. ~,,,i,,,ke je . K. Then o.d. J. IL Cole, lion. J. L. I{..vetta4h, A. Tollemaclie, J. Corrance, F. Kekewich, S. T. Tottenham,Lt.-Col. Cooper. E. 11. li,ndal I, N. Treeby..J. W. Cox, W. King, J. G. Vance, J. Cranborne, Vist. King, P. J. L. Verner, Sir W. Cubitt, G. Knight, F. Walcott, Admiral Dawson, It. P. Wwaalicipeorie,,bsl.aj, H. o U. Dick, F. L lC a n n ig gton le , y vv . S . l G r . ft. Dickson, Major Leo mere, Sir E. Walrond, J. W. Dims late. it. Legh, Major C. Walsh, A. Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord G. G. Walsh, Sir J. Dovvdeswell, W. E. Lennox, Lord H. G. Waterhouse, S. Du Cane, C. Lindsay, Cot. R. Welby, W. E. Duncombe, A. Lowther, J. Whitmore, 11. Duncombe, W. E. Mainwaring, T. Wise, H. C. Dn I're, C. G. Malcolm, J. W. J. Woodd, B. T. Dutton, R. 11. Manners, Lord Wyndham, H. Dyke, W. 11. Manners, Lord G. Wyndham, P. Dyott, Colonel Metier, W. Wynn, C. W. W. Edwards, H. Bovill, W. Wynne, W. R. M. Egerton, A. F. Mord flint, Sir C. I orke, J. It. Egerton, E. C. Morgan, 0. Egerton, W. Morgan, Major Pane, Col. Mowbray, J. K. Feilden, J. Naas, Lord Hope, Beresford Fellowes, E. Neeld, Sir J. Gorst, J. Floyer, J. Neville-Grenville,R TELLERS.. Hardcastle, J. A. Baines, E. TELI.ERB. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. The great debate on the interpellations termi nated by a vote of 215 to 44 in favour of passing to the order of the day —that is to say, the Chamber was of opinion that there was no ground for found ing any specific resolutions upon the discursive and rambling objections made to the foreign policy of the Government. M. Thiers made another speech, which most of the journals describe as a rehash of his first long address. M. Rouher, the Minister of State, disposed of all the opposition objections eloquently and triumph antly. The effect was such that, when he con cluded, many members left their seats and earnestly expressed their congratulations. The conclusion of this speech merits literal translation. The Minister said---" France will never have any exclusive alli ance. We wish to remain in harmony with all nations. We will treat with them in regard to all the important interests which may successively be brought into question, and we will defend them. We will defend our national alliances by compro mises, by diplomacy, in order to overcome diffi culties. Positions will change. To-day we will ally with Austria, to-morrow with Prussia, not to seek for conquests, but to arrive at an amicable solution of questions which may be agitated between us, in order to attain a great pacific position after great storms. (Much applause.) Here is the thought which dominates over us. Here is the motive by which we are directed. It is the pro found feeling to support the interests of the country. This is the realisation of the end marked out for man for the nation—progress ! And our work being accomplished we will say to our descendants, Do like us. Allow violent aggressions to pass away, as well as bold and bitter reproaches, and posterity • will judge you." M. Gueroult said—We have too few opportuni ties of calling the attention of the Government to foreign affairs not to avail ourselves of the present. It must be well understood that I decline, on my own account, all responsibility in the signification which is attached to the demand made by M. Thiers to refer the various questions back to the Govern ment. (M. Gueroult is the chief editor of the Opinion Nationale). The Chambers met again to-day, but merely to discuss matters of local interest. The Moniteur contains a letter from Madrid, dated the 17th of March, which states that all the inhabitants attended the funeral of Monseigneur Puente, Cardinal Archbishop of Burgos, on the previous day. The cardinal, who like Cardinal Wise man, was born at Seville, and commencedhis studies i❑ England with the late eminent Archbishop of Westminster, had become eminent for his virtues and enlightened principles. After having occupied the See of Salamanca he was translated to Old Castelle, and it was there that he was chosen to direct the studies of the heir presumptive to the hrone. Independently of the treaty of commerce signed with Morocco, Spain has just made an engagement with England, France, Austria, and several other nations, to assist in maintaining the beautiful light house which the Emperor Mohammed has erected, at his own expense, on Cape Espartel, not far from Tangiers. For vessels coming from the west this light indicates to the south the entrance to Gibraltar, and will therefore be of incontestable utility. Since the formation of railways in Algiers the port of Carthagena has attracted the particular attention of persons who have frequent relations with Africa, and who hope that Oran and Algiers will speedily be connected. The shortest route from Paris to Algiers is now by way of Carthagena. That town is united to Paris by an uninterrupted railway of 2,000 kilometres in length, and it is only 115 nautical miles from Oran—that is to say, the distance is performed in 52 hours by railway and 13 hours by cea. For persons who do not like a sea voyage the journey by Bayonne and Madrid for Algeria offers various advantages, and the same may be said in regard to travellers to America by Cadiz, as they thus avoid the dangers and annoy ances of the Gulf of Gascony. A Prince of Ilesse has just died in his seventy eighth year. It appears by letters from Roubaix that the riots arising out of the strike of the cotton and silk weavers in that town have been more serious than was at first supposed. It was necessary to call out the troops garrisoned in the town. The workmen broke into the factories, destroyed the materials, and set fire to the workshops. The origin of the dissatisfaction of the workmen was the introduction of a newly-invented loom, two of which can be con ducted by one workman. Another cause of dis satisfaction was a fine imposed upon workmen of a centime per minute when absent from their work. This fine, however, was modified by the masters, who published a notice to that effect. The notice, however, was considered as an indication that the masters intended to persevere in the employment of the new machines which created so much excite ment among the workmen that they assembled in the streets to the number of more than 25,000, uttering terrific shouts and menaces. They attacked the workshops of several manufacturers and destroyed the looms and materials and broke the windows. They then proceeded to the resithnces of some of their employers, and broke, cut, and then destroyed the furniture. The tocsin was sounded, the troops arrived, and there was a scene of confusion and alarm. The mob, however, dispersed on the arrival of the soldiers. There does not appear to have been any loss of life, but Roubaix was never before subjected to such commotion and violence. In Belgium, also, there is great excitement among the working classes. On Sunday last about 1,600 workmen assembled to protest against some words inconsiderately uttered by one of the Belgian ministers. Deputations from Antwerp, Verviers, and Liege attended the meeting, and unanimously agreed to the following resolution :—" This meet ing protests with all the energy of the national dignity against the accusation made against the Belgian people by a minister of Belgium, who re presented them as capable of selling their electoral rights for a barrel of beer or gin. The meeting protests against the declaration of the same minister, which is in direct opposition to natural right, and with the spirit and letter of the constitu tion, and which tends to nothing less than to con demn the people to perpetual ostracism. The meeting declares that the League of the people was constituted with the object of pursuing the object assigned to it by the foundation committee ap pointed by the meeting of the 22d of December, 1866." The Belgian " League of the People" is a society, the object of which is to obtain and insure for the people the right of suffrage, education, and to promote their general welfare. The ktusc-Hall Sick Fund.- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your report of the meeting of this society, held at Weston's Music Hall on the 19th inst., you have attri buted to me the speech which was in fact spoken by the chairman, Dion Boucicault, Esq.; and, in particular, I beg to draw your attention to the following sentence :—" To music-halls personally he was under a deep debt of grati tude, because no inconsiderable portion of the fortune he had accumulated was owing to the audience they had sent to him ;" which would have been absurd as coming from me, as I have only been for a twelvemonth connected with a music-hall. Trusting that you will be kind enough to correct this error, I am, yours truly, W. HOLLAND. Weston's Music-hall, 242, High Holborn, March 20, 1867. THE LATE TRIAL OF M. DE GIRARDIN.—M. Emile de Giiardin announces in the Liberte that he desists from the appeal which he had made against the sentence condemning him for a press offence to 5,000 f. fine, the maximum of the pecuniary penalty allowed by the law. His reasons are—first, that as, in presence of the new bill on the pre:-s, imprisonment is impossible, he has no peril to encounter; and next, that a trial on the amount of the rule appears to him without importance and undignified. MARKETS.- This day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with boasts, yet all breeds moved off slowly at Monday's cur rency. The top figure was 5s 2d per 81b. Prime Down and half-bred sheep were in fair request, at full quotations ; but heavy breeds were a dull inquiry, at late rates. The best Downs, in the wool, sold at 6s 4d ; out of the wool, 5s per 81b. The transactions in calves were limited, on former terms, viz., from 4s 6d to 5s 6d per 81b. Pigs were a slow sale ; nevertheless, prices were supported. Per 81b to sink the offal. s el e el i d s d Crse & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 6 Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 6 5 0 Second quality do ..3 8 4 4 Prime s'thdown on 6 0 6 4 Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 10 Large coarse calvcs.4 6 4 10 Prime Scots, &c.... 5 0 5 2 Prime small do 5 0 5 6 Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 10 4 2 Large hogs .3 2 3 6 Second quality do L ..4 amb.s 4 0s Od . 2 Small 0 porkers 3 8 4 2 .. to Od. Suckling calves, 201 to 228 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 23s 327 s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. _ 1 Foreign supply. Beasts 312 Cows. Sheep snd 1 ,inbs 1 240 Oa •es ... 94 Pigs 3O Beasts 7Ol Cows. Sheep .nd lambs 3,450 Calves llO 140 Jigs MEAT. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows :—Beef, 33 2(1 to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; veal, 48 Od to 5s Od;• pork, 3s 2d to 4s 4d per 81b8 by the carcase. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs; clover, £4 Os to 45 lOs; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load. A moderate demand. CUMBERLAYD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 12s; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load Supply tolerably good. WIIITECHAPEL.—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover, £4 Os to £5 12s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 68 per load Trade inactive. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (This Day.) The Market opens with a quiet tone. Sales pro bably 5,000 or 6,000 bales. DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Some further information has transpired which affords the hope that this dis tinguished traveller is not dead, as reported. Dr. Seward writes as follows to Sir R. Murchison :—" I have person ally made inquiries among the traders of Keelwa Koinga, and have gathered information there which tends to throw discredit on the statement of the Johanna men, who allege that they saw their leader dead. The evidence of the Nyassa traders strengthens the suspicion that these men abandoned the traveller when he was about to traverse a Mazite-haunted district, and for aught they know to the contrary Dr. Livingstone may yet be alive. I purpose sending details by the next mail." Sir Roderick, however, says that " the whole case must rest in painful suspense until some one of his faithful negro attendants who, it is said, escaped the slaughter, shall return to confirm the tale of the Johanna men." SEVERE GALES IN THE ATLANTIC. —LOSSES OF SHIPPING.—The fearful south-easterly gales which have this week proved so disastrous round our own coasts have caused serious disasters in the Atlantic. By the arrival of the African mail steamship Ethiopo at Liverpool yesterday we learn that on the Bth and 9th inst. a terrific gale from the south suddenly broke over the island of Teneriffe, doing immense damage to shipping. The American barque J. C. Nickels broke her anchor chains, and drove ashore, becoming a total wreck ; and the same fate befel the Pele guna and Joven Harreta, two Spanish ships. In each case the crows were fortunately saved. The barque Britannia, of Glasgow, was abandoned at sea, with rudder gone and in a sinking state, in lat. 47 N. long. 18 W. On the 17th February the British barque Royal Mint was totally lost on the Carpenter Rocks, near Sierra Leone. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.— This event has been definitely fixed to come off from Putney to Mortlake on Saturday, April 13. The time of starting has not yet boon settled, but it is thought it will be about half-past nine. ,arl o r - an l e t 9.4 11." sttfir HER MAJESTY, &c• WINDSOR CASTLE, March 20. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, arrived at the Castle last evening at 20 minutes before 7 o'clock, from London, attended by the Countess of Caledon, Major-General A. N. Hood, Hon. Col. A. llardinge, and Mr. Legg. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh and the Maharanee arrived at the Castle yesterday, and dined with the, Queen and Royal Family. His Highness was attended by Col. Oliphant. The ceremony of christening the Shahazadah, the infant son of his Highness the Maharajah and the Maharanee, took place in the private chapel of the Castle this morning, her Majesty the Queen stand ing in person as one of the sponsors, the others being the Maharajah and the Rev. William Jay. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor performed the ceremony. The Shahazadah received the names of Victor Albert. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold were present. The Duchess of Roxburghe and the Countess of Caledon were in attendance on her Majesty. There were also present the Earl and Countess of Leven and Melville, Lady Sophia Melville, Major- General Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, and the Ladies and Gen tlemen in Waiting. His Highness the Maharajah and the Maharanee, attended by Col. Oliphant, left the Castle this afternoon. Wo aro authorised to state that her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales, having passed ever the fourth week from her confinement, Dr. Arthur Parra will cease attendance. Her Royal Highness is now suffering only from inflammation of the knee joint and its consequences, requiring especially surgical aid. The marriage of the Count of Flanders with the Princess of Hohenzollern is to be celebrated on the 25th of April at Berlin. _ The marriage of the youngest son of King Victor Emmanuel, Prince Amadeus of Savoy, with Madlle. de la Cisterna, is fixed to take place during this month. it will be celebrated with no groat solemnity in the chapel of the royal palace. The nuptial benediction will be pronounced by Mgr. Casablanca, the new Archbishop of Milan. King Victor Emmanuel has just conferred upon the young fiancée and her mother the title of highness. The Duke of St. Alban's had a dinner party yes terday evening at his residence at Princes-gate. The Earl and Countess of Fife entertained at dinner last night—his Excellency the French Ambassador, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and Marquise di San Germano, Earl of Abingdon, Countess of Jersey, Lady Caroline Villiers, Mr. Brandling, Viscount Sudley, Viscount Hyde, Lady Agnes Murray, and Mr. John Lumley. The Earl and Countess Percy had a dinner party last evening at Northumberland House. The Earl and Countess of Southampton have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Rosalyn have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Skeffington Yale, Leicester. The Countess of Malmesbury is going on very favourably, considering the extreme weakness from which her ladyship is still suffering. The Countess Clare, the Hon. Gerald Normanby Dillon, Lady Louisa Dillon and family, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Loss of the Brig Benton. OFFICIAL REPORT. To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade. My Lords,—We, the undersigned, two of her Majesty's justices of the peace for the borough of South Shields, have, in accordance with your in struction, held an inquiry into the stranding and subsequent loss of the brig Benton upon the Whit burn Steel Rocks, off the coast of Durham, between Sunderland and Shieldss, on the morningof the 24th January last, at about 1 o'clock a.m. We have been assisted in this inquiry by Captains Harris and Baker, as nautical assessors appointed by your Lordships' Board. The brig Benton was built of wood at Sunderland in 1828, and was registered at South Shields. She was of 166 tons burthen, and was owned solely by Mr. George Foreman, of that port. The vessel left London on Saturday, Jan. 12, having on board chalk ballast, under the command of Mr. William Foreman, who holds a certificate of competency as Master, dated March 6, 1856, and she had a crew of six hands, all told. The Benton had a fair wind on leaving the Thames, and she reached off Lowestoft, where, the wind failing, she anchored, and remained there until the 22d, being windbound. On that day she weighed anchor and proceeded on her voyage, passing Flamborough Head about three miles distant. She arrived safely off the Hartle pool Light, and at 9 p.m. on the 23d she bad that light bearing W. by S. four miles distant, and was abreast the Seaham Lights at midnight. At this time the wind was moderate from the S.W., and the weather fine, the ship heading about N.N.W. to N. by W. About midnight, or soon after, the course was altered to N. by E. to N.N.E., and about 40 minutes past that hour a buoy was seen on the starboard bow, which was taken for one of the ballast buoys. The ship's course was at this time N.E., upon which course the vessel took the ground at about 1 o'clock a.m., and in a few hours was l ull of water. Efforts were made when she first struck to back her off with the sails, without success, 8 0 she was too firmly fixed upon the rocks t° be moved. The brig was subsequently aban doned as a total wreck. The Court, having given due attention to the evidence in this ease , came to the conclusion that the Benton was lost, like many other vessels on this part of the coast, by hugging the land too closely. In this case there does not appear to have been any reason for . 8 0 doing, as the vessel had a fair and moderate win d from the S.W., and the night was sufficiently clear to see all the lights. If, as the Master states th e weather was thick so that he could not see the land —which is often caused by the smoke from Sun derland obscuring the land about Souter Point a cast of the lead would have warned him of In° proximity to the coast. This, however, was ne: glected. Under the circumstances, the Court ha d no alternative but to pronounce that the brig Ben ton was lost by the default of her Master. We have therefore, with the concurrence of t he Nautical Assessors, suspended the certificate of Mr. William Foreman for six calendar months from this date. The certificate is herewith returned. We have the honour to be, my Lo rds, Your obedient servants, JAMES ANDERSON, Mayor. THOMAS MOFFETT. We concur in this report, I-IY. HARRIS, 1 Nautical Asses sors• R. B. BAKER, Town-hall, South Shields, March 15, 1867• ALLEGED MURDER.—At the New Bailey , ford, on Tuesday, an Irishman, named Daniel geoa rth it 'l was charged with murder. It appeared that Henry Nl r ".; a man in the service of a coaldealer in Levenshuhnet returning home on Friday evening, when the prisone" who was drunk, stopped and spoke to him. 313c9ftill? asked Willis if he was a Fenian, and receiv in g 3 dee'S- No" for answer, he said, " Then I a m," and at onth c; stabbed 'Willis with a knife. Willis was carried to i n firmary, where he died on Sunday. When the PrisTien wa s arrested, the knife, stained with blood, w as fouL. e o ne pocket, and a piece of jagged brick in another. '- was committed for trial at the Liverpool assizes. A FARMER COMMITTED FOR SIIEEPSTEALIN". Yesterday, at the North Riding Petty Sessions at S2e b o rough, Mr. Jonathan Smith, a farmer at Allerton, '013" charged with stealing a sheep, the property of gr' j :,„et Thomson, also a farmer. Th e prosecutor an d Pr's- ad were tenants under Mr. Loyd, of Lincroft, occuff iDg bet joining farms at Cross Cliff, Allerston, and between Oct ° . s e last and the 5,h o f M arc h inst. prosecu t o r had lost n o te at. than:2B sheep,which induced him to keep a sharp loolc-4 r Something caused him to have suspicion of his neighb.°g" Smith, and on the last-named day he saw him " 119 ' caile W:its something up in his fold-yard, and im mediately the police, who, on examining his premises , found tale to 0 and skin of a sheep, which, by its marks, was Pr o. wh ich belong to Thomson. Two other heads of sheep to had been slaughtered some time, were also found, b ut s Vo ears having been cut off, they could n ot be identifie d. ilio g prisoner was committed to take his tr ial at the O assizes at York.— lorkAire FQQf. 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