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Afternoon, 121. 1m To-Aloßaow.-Morning, 12h. 25m.—Afternoon, 12h. 48m Me! , 47 egg fr- 4 * 1;7V6:- P146(,14 U M I - 4 , 1 , 1 V S LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1867 The question which Mr. WYLD last night put to the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs was one which is deeply interesting to many, and indeed is important in its political significance. The hon. member inquired if it was true that the King of ABYSSINIA had refused to comply with the QUEEN'S request that he should liberate the captives, and whether, in consequence, the English engineers, who were to have entered the KING'S service, had returned to England ? and, thirdly, what further steps were to be taken by the Government to obtain the release of Mr. RASSAM, Consul CAME RON, and the other captives ? Lord STANLEY made answer that it was impossible for him to say whether the KING had signified his refusal, because they had as yet no answer from him on the subject, but it was certain that some time ago the QUEEN'S letters had reached him, and also that the prisoners were not released. As for the engineers, Colonel MEREWETHER suggested that they had better come back, and the Government consented to the pro posed arrangements, believing that under the cir eunntances it would not be safe for them to go into the interior. On the 16th of April Lord STANLEY wrote to the KING, stating that the long " detention of these prisoners caused him great regret, and say ing that unless they were liberated immediately the presents which had been prepared and sent out would not be delivered. Beyond this no further information has been received." This Abyssinian question was one of the most troublesome among the many inconvenient legacies which their predecessors in office left to the pre sent Government, and we confess it has come to a pass, at which it is much easier to dis cus the difficulties of the case, and to lament the fate of the prisoners, than to propose a plan of action, or to discover a remedy for the evil that exists. Earl RUSSELL managed as Madly as possible in offending the KING, by not sending an answer to his letter, and the unhappy prisoners themselves seem to have been guilty of great. im prudence at first, but all that does not meet the difficulty of the present position. Row are these men to be extricated, for their painful confinement has become a matter of great moment, and it seems as if we ought not much longer to have an answer delayed. The inconveniences of proceeding to extremities are too well known to need recapitula tion, and the loss of an expedition against the KING would be great, and it might even fail of attaining its immediate object of releasing the captives, be cause the irate KING might cause their destruction before the arrival of succour. But how can we go on much longer, allow this state of things to con tinue, and submit to the insults heaped upon us, and the injuries inflicted upo❑ our fellow-country men and the subjects of our Sovereign ? Besides all these considerations, there is another which is of paramount importance. Consul CAMERON is the representative of England in the place where he has suffered so much indignity and inconvenience, and it is not at all suitable that he should be thus treated with scorn and contempt. If we cannot protect our Consuls in these remote regions, we had better not send any out there ; but, at the same time, having done so, we are bound to see that they return in safety. It will never do to have a precedent established by these men pining away in captivity, and being destroyed by the fury of theirpersecutors. Lord STANLEY has displayed much discernment, and exhibited so firm a spirit of deter mination in many difficult questions already, that it is not unlikely he may see a way out of this matter, consonant with all dignity and suited to the exi gencies of the case. We hope he may succeed in effecting the liberation of these unfortunate cap tives ; but if he should fail in doing so by friendly persuasions, we feel convinced that the noble lord will see that the time has come when other expe dients must be resorted to, and that the honour of England cannot permit her to remain for ever passive when her subjects are maltreated, and all remonstrances on their behalf set at defiance. All who take an interest in American politics, whatever their particular views, will learn with satisfaction the release of JEFFERSON Davis from his long and tedious captivity. Even admitting the illegality and disloyalty of the secession of the States—an admission which a large party in this country have always been disinclined to make—it is absurd that the offence should be visited specially upon one man, however prominent his position. JEFFERSON DAVIS was indeed the most conspicuous statesman of the short-lived Southern Republic, but he was merely the representative of the feelings and wishes of his people. He was their chosen leader, their elected President. The Confederacy was never under his absolute control and guidance. He never filled the office or exercised the authority of a Dictator—in fact his Government was too constitutional for a time of trial and disturbance. The final break up of the Confederacy was mainly due to the refusal of the planters to ac cept the suggestions of JEFFERSON DAVIS and General LEE ; and, had he been the man to carry out his own convictions in defiance of other considerations, he might never have seen the inside of Fortress Monroe. Whatever his administrative capacity or his foresight as ruler, the career of JEFFERSON DAVIS is identical with the Southern cause. It was at its acme in the palmy days of the Confederacy when it was overcast with the drooping fortunes of the Southern armies. Why, then, should Mr. DAVIS alone be made to suffer for the errors, if errors they were, of millions? He rendered, no doubt, great services to the Confederacy, but Gene ral LEE rendered still greater. Another PRESIDENT might have been chosen, but after JACKSON'S death, it would not have been possible to have replaced the Southern Commander-in-Chief. Yet LEE is living in retirement, free and respected, while DAvis is the object of constant and virulent attack. Thanks to President JOHNSON, his position has, indeed, been of late considerably improved, and had it not been for the ascendancy of the ultra-Radicals, he would, no doubt, have been long since released on bail. This is what has at last been actually done after all these tedious delays and repeated disappointments. The Court of Richmond has released Mr. DAVIS on bail to appear in November next. We may hope that this is a preliminary to his being set at liberty altogether. The Government of the United States has many dangers to fear within and without, but very certainly the freedom of JEFFERSON Davis will not enhance them. The Supreme Court has discussed the appeals of Georgia and Mississippi on the ground of want of jurisdiction, the real state of the case being that Mr. CHASE has no wish to embroil himself with the Radicals in view of the approaching contest for the Presidency. To interfere with the action of the boasted Reconstruction Bill would be to identify himself with the policy of the PRESIDENT, and to forfeit the support of the Radicals. Mr. CHASE, it is pretty well known, has a mind to try his fortunes at the White House, and is therefore very glad to get rid of the troublesome petition from the South on the excuse of a point of law. According to the news brought by the Bremen from New York on the 2d, the Democratic party is steadily gaining ground, their candidates for the Mayoralty and for the city Judgeship at Baltimore having been elected by large majorities. The Judiciary Committee, we learn from the same source, were to resume the impeachment investiga tion on the 3d of May, but the interest attaching to their proceedings seems to have died out. The Mexican news is all uncertainty. The New York papers affirm that a despatch has been received from the agent of JUAREZ, which stated that MIRA MON was dead, the Imperial forces disbanded, MARQUEZ completely defeated, Queretaro c tptured, and the EMPEROR in concealment. All this must be received with reserve, but there seems little doubt that MAXIMILIAN'S brief dream of power is over. Mexico has little to hope from the triumph of JUAREZ, since it seems that ORTEGA has found ad herents, and that CANALES, who has declared in his favour, was besieging Matamoras. The pro spects of that beautiful and fertile but distracted country are as hopelessly overclouded as ever. The people have become so accustomed to a condition of chronic warfare and rebellion, of intrigue and plunder that it would be difficult for the wisest and most judicious ruler to maintain his ascendancy over them. If be tries a just and constitutional administration be will be defeated by those whose interest it is to scheme, and agitate, and conspire. If he attempts to govern with a strong hand the land is full of soldiers of fortune, who will answer the first appeal to arms. Mexico may serve as a warning to its great and powerful, but no longer united neigh bour. America is distracted by factions, and torn by the intrigues and straggles of rival place-hunters and bidders for power. She is far removed, indeed, from the anarchy and desolation of Mexico, but she is no longer what she was, and it behoves all who really have the fortunes of their country at heart to exert themselves to restore and uphold the wavering doctrines of Constititionai freedom and authority. The abuse of the power of Congress, although apparently it is an error on the side of liberty and free government, will inevitably tend, as in all former instances on record, to the assumption of irresponsible power by some daring and unscrupulous spirit. The break up of the Union, which would probably result from such an event, would be a far less evil than the overthrow of those Republican principles which the citizens of the West have always cherished. America has had enough of war and contention for this century at least. Let her turn her attention to those arts of peace and industry, without which no people can be really free, great, or prosperous. It is very satisfactory that Colonel BARTTELOT should have obtained the object of his effort last night, and that a select committee should have been agreed to to inquire into the operation of the malt tax. For many reasons it is as well that this should be done. The subject has long been one of difficulty and inconvenience to many, and nothing can be wiser or more politic than to set doubts and difficulties at rest by a full inquiry into the matter. The Government were sensible in not opposing the demand, and Mr. DISRAELI showed very good reasons for so doing, when he said that " the time during which discussions had taken place was a long one, and the extravagant views which were taken on the subject by both sides rendered it very desirable to have the matter thoroughly investi gated." The right hon. gentleman was of course in an ackward position in this matter, because many of his friends and supporters were among the enthusiastic advocates for the total abolition of this tax. He, however, showed that he had not him self been led to any extreme in the case, and had not used the expression that the tax was a burden on the agricultural interests. He said that the Malt Tax was a restriction on the industry of the producers of barley, and went on to declare that it might not be politic or expedient to remit the tax, although it mightreadily be laid down that it was a considerable restriction. Colonel BARTTELOT succeeded in showing many ad vantages might be derived from the labours of the Committee ;—among other things he cited the advisability of the Committee proving how far it was advisable to replace the tax by a tax on beer ; and, also, they might illustrate how the working classes would gain by the abolition of this tax in consequence of the adulteration in beer being checked. We do not believe that the day is near at band which will witness the repeal of this tax, but it may be modified with great advantage, and no doubt the present Chan cellor of the Exchequer will do something in this direction if he remains long enough in office to have some favourable seasons as well as unfavourable ones. At any rate, it is a gain in the cause of pro gress that this committee should havebeen appointed, and it will afford many an opportunity of under standing the subject who are confused with conflicting statements, and perhaps not sufficiently informed in the matter. To check the adulteration of beer would be a great advantage gained, and we are not without hope and expectation that the committee may be enabled to devise some means for attaining this end, which they can confidently recommend to the Government to follow. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The official communication made yesterday to the Chambers on the part of the Government, of which I sent you an account in my letter, has ex cited great satisfaction among the press and the public generally. Sime of the papers are enthu siastic in the highest degree. I see but one excep- tion to this joyous feeling at the maintenance of peace—that of the Avenir National—which seems still to have some misgivings, and insists upon the truth of a report which has been circulated, that Luxemburg will continue to form part of the Ger man Zollvereiu. The Avenir National says :—" The Customs frontiers at this time are real frontiers. To leave to Prussia the direction of the interests of national commerce would, in reality, be to leave to her the sole direction of important affairs. The Conference, in making such an arrangement, would only have finished its labour by leaving Luxemburg as Prutsian as it was before. The fortress will fall, it is true, but in its place the Powers have raised another less capable of attack, their guarantee of neutralisation." Le Temps applauds the Convention, but wishes to see the treaty followed by a general disarmament. According to the Gazette de France, Prussia had only one object in view, that of obtaining the con servation of Europe in the position which she has obtained for herself in Germany. It believes that Prussia has perfectly succeeded in the object which she had in view. The Presse says that the honour of France is maintained, but it expends a little ill temper upon the unskilfulness which, it says, has been in this stance displayed by M. Bismarck. The France is delighted that France has obtained a triumph without a sanguinary war or any pertur bation in Europe. The step taken has not even troubled the great Exhibition which now exhibits its marvels in the Champ de Mars. A serious calamity has occurred at the village of Louesmes (Cote d'Or). During service the foun dations of the church gave way. Twelve persons were seriously injured, and ten were killed. The Sub-Prefect went to the spot immediately and ren dered all the assistance in his power. Medical men were also promptly in attendance. The Empress has sent I,ooof. for the moment, and has promised to send such a further sum as may be required. There was a fair attendance at the Chantilly Races on Sunday. A melancholy and mysterious affair is in course of investigation by the authorities. The circum stances, as far as they have transpired, are these : A young man of 20, Ernest X., after an absence of a week, which he said he had passed in the country, came home to his parents, who reside in the Fau bourg St. Germain. He was pale and haggard, and saying that he was very ill he went to bed. Three days afterwards he died, and the medical attendant was unable to form any opinion upon the cause of death. Shortly before he died Ernest complained of severe internal pain, and when upon the point of death in his delirium he pronounced the names of several of his companions. He seemed to imagine that he was still in company with them, and cried out " I forgive you. You have murdered me. What a misfortune at my age." At the earnest desire of the father a post mortem examination of the body took place. The operation enabled the surgeons to pronounce that death had been caused from internal injuries in consequence of violent blows upon the stomach. This led to fur ther investigation, and it was discovered that Ernest and four friends of about his own age had made a bet with some others that on every day of a week they would inebriate themselves with various strong and rebellious liquors, and that they would finish their Bacchanalia❑ orgies on the Sunday, closing the week by drinking a large quanity of punch composed of kirch, absinthe, cognac, rhun, white brandy, and other liqueurs of peculiarly intoxicat ing character. The programme of this foolish wager was carried out to the letter, or, more strictly speak ing, to the spirit. The five young men passed the Sunday at the house where one of them resided in drinking 'and uproarious festivity. Not a drop of punch remained. The liquor had the effect of making them quarrelsome. They fought, and kicked, and danced together until, overcome by drinking and exhaustion, they all fell asleep. In the morning when they awoke they had but little recollection of what had passed, and they parted in a friendly feeling, aftqr shal;ing IHE suN, LOM)ON, WEDNESDAY EVENgiNG, NAY 15 1867 hands. It was no doubt during the drunken quarrel that Ernest received the blows which caused his death. It is said that his four foolish com panions are likely to be put upon their trial on the charge of wilful homicide. A German paper says that, according to the last census, the population of St. Petersburg amounts to 540,000 inhabitants, half of whom are unable to read and write. The number of ignorant is even supposed to be greater than this estimate. The primary schools in the capital are represented to be in the most inefficient and deplorable state. As to the provinces, there arc no establishments for in struction at all. The weather la ;t night was again very stormy, and there was abundance of rain. To-day it has rained heavily and almost continuously, and it has again become cold and cheerless. A little girl, carrying her can of milk across the Boulevard the other day, fell down and a good deal of the milk was lost. A benevolent passer-by, who heard her sobs, consoled her by telling her that she could easily repair the loss by going to the next fountain. " Oh, my good gentleman," said the child, " mamma put a good deal of water into the milk before I went out." Naval and Military Intelligence. The Danae, 4, screw sloop, 1,268 tons, 350 horse power, engines by Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow, build ing at Portsmouth dockyard, will be launched on the 21st inst. She is of the improved Amazon class, designed by Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, and promises, from the appearance of her lines, to be the fastest vessel under steam yet sent afloat from his designs, speaking comparatively with regard to tonnage and engine power. The Warrior, armoured iron frigate, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse power, is ordered by the Controller of the Navy to be completed at Portsmouth dockyard, and made ready to receive her crew on commission by the 17th inst. This frigate has now been so long in hand by the shipwright department of the yard that it was reasonably expected she would be ready to receive her crew and hoist her commission pen nant on any day after the 9th ult., the date fixed on originally for the completion of her refit. She has been so trifled with, however, from some cause or other, that now her services are required a consi derable amount of work remains yet unfinished. The result is that while the Controller himself must be somewhat astonished at such a state of things, his subordinates at Portsmouth are equally astonished at being called upon to finish work at a short notice which they have been treating as likely to last for a considerable time. All the available re sourc s of the shipwright department of the yard are now placed upon the frigate to complete her with all haste, but it will be almost impossible to do this by the 17th inst. The pres3nt system of super vision of work of this kind in her Majesty's yards is, to eay the least, most inadequate. An Admiralty order was received at Chatham yesterday announcing that volunteer A.B.'s, ordi nary seamen, cooks, and other seamen and petty officers are required for the new Indian transports just completed, and nearly ready to ue commissioned for the India transport service. The Malabar, 4,173 tons, 700 horse power, just completed at the yard of Messrs. Napier and Sons, Glasgow, is the most forward of the fleet of transports, and will be the first commissioned, the volunteers being required for this vessel. In addition to the Euphrates, the Jurnna, the Crocodile, and the Serapis, each of 4,173 tons, and 700 horse power (nominal), which, with the Malabar, will comprise the fleet of Indian transports, the Government has given instructions for the immediate construction, at the yard of Messrs. Napier and Sous, Glasgow, of two smaller iron steamers, to be named the Prompt and Hasty, together with eight iron troop barges, to be used in transporting the soldiers to and from the steamers. One of the steamers and four of the troop barges are to be employed on each side of the Isthmus of Suez, in conjunction with the steam transports run ning between Southampton and Alexandria, and Suez and the I ndian ports. Yesterday Major-Gen. Freeman Murray resumed and brought to a close his first inspection of the 2d battalion of Infantry at Chatham garrison, taking it up at the point finished on the previous day. At and aecoutremeuts of the 9.30 a.m. the whole o f the officers; and men of the ge neral parade ground, osbuiffiersc' of men composin g the werhseannGdemn.e:lTinrrawyhinspected , t fn r h oo e nm t:_ c e to w hme cmll large rs t gs h e i o n nn g eu , dm a bat talion, he was engaged for some time. The remain ing portion of the day was occupied in the inspec tion of the barrack rooms, officers' and men's quar ters, schools, hospital, and the quarters recently erected for and now occupied by the married non commissioned officers and men of the several corps attached to the 2d Battalion. The inspection of the books, accounts, and official documents of each corps, and of the depot battalion, followed, and at its termination Gen. Murray expressed to Col. Rick man his satisfaction at the highly-efficient state in which he found the battalion under his' command, as well as at the manner in which the officers and men had acquitted themselves. An order was yesterday received at Chatham from the Horse Guards directing the depot companies of the 34th Regiment to be held in readiness to pro ceed from that garris on to Portsmo uth , to await the arrival of the head - q uarters and servi ce companies relief of the regiment, now on p assa g e ho me from campaign Ca lcutta. rebels gl an from t B of Azi mg h ur, the a othe o apture of Lu c k now , 1857-59, n1w,d n includingother e t e actions at Cawnpore, siege and capture The 3 4 th Reg iment embar ked fer Calcutta on the 7th of August , 1657, and ser ved throughout the Indian gaccaatpgiteoumnrseenwotfist.hMteThheaee 34th also took a di s ti ngu i shing part in the campaign in the Crimea, and had only returned from Russia the previous year when the regiment was ordered to India, where it has since been serving. BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. —An order has been agreed to by the House of Lords to the effect that no private bill coming from the Commons shall be read a second time after the 18th of June ; that no bill confirming any provisional order of the Board of Health, nnr Enclosure Bill, nor any Bill confirming any scheme of the Charity Commissioners, shall be read a second time after the 21st of June ; and also that no bill confirming any provisional order of the Board of Trade, under the General Pier and Hartonr Act, shall be read a second time after the last-mentioned date. These orders will not apply to new bills sent up from the Commons in substitution of others which may have w hich bills shall be su b stantially the same as the orig i na l amended bills. been amended in the Lords, and TILE LATE LORD LLANTOVER.—The following ad dress, illuminated in black and silver, and sent to Lady Llanover, testifies the feelings of the vestry of St. Maryle bone, on hearing of the death of Lord Llanover:—" At the Vestry, St. Marylebone, May 2, R. Kynaston, Esq., in the chair.—Resolved, That this vestry, having heard of the lamented death of the Right Hon. Lord Llanover, is desirous of placing upon record the expressions of its heart felt regret at this sad event, and of offering to Lady Llan over, his bereaved widow, its respectful sympathy and condolence. The promptings to this act are, first, a grate ful recollection of the services rendered specially to the borough of Marylebone by the deceased nobleman as one of its Parliamentary representatives ; and, secondly, a cor dial recognition of his public services generally. During the 22 years he represented Marylebone in the House of Commons as Sir Benjamin Hall, he was ever most vigilant and earnest in all that concerned the welfare of his consti ' tuents. On all legislative questions affecting their local interests he brought to bear the ready application of his large experi ence, sound judgment, an d em i nen tly practical mind, and wa s ever ready by his vote an d influence to up hold local right s an d pr i vileges. A mong the most agree able reminisc ences o f h is connexion w ith Marylebone, his urbanity, courtesy, and habitual kindness of manner will be long cherished. Of his public services generally the passing of the Metropolis Local Management Act testifies to the sincrity of his professions as a friend of local self government, while the great improvements carried out by him in the public parks of the metropolis, when bolding the office of Chief Commissioner of Works, show the warm interest he felt in all that concerns the health, comfort, and social enjoyment of the people,. For these acts alone he is entitled to the gratitude of posterity." CONSEQUENCES orislEoLEcT.—There is, perhaps, no part of the body that ought to be more interesting to us than the teeth. and yet there is also none which is more generally neglected. Were a little ordinary attention devoted to these organs, we should n o l o n ge r find toothache and otter dis cases of the mo u th so preva l e nt ; n or would our s uses be affected by offensi ve b rea th, and simi'ar disagreeable -con comitants. Art, however, is here ilea ssary to .ssist nature ; and in such case-, it is that a preparation like How lAr.ds' 0 low() becomes peculiarly advantageous as an infal libl preservative of those indispensible attributes of beauty, the teeth and gums, in balmy fragrance, freshness, and s34uty. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) HUNGARY. PESTH, May 14. Baron Von Beust bas submitted to the Emperor the draft of the speech to be delivered by his Ma jesty at the opening of the Reichsrath. It is said that the speech is characterised both by forbearance and frankness. It promises liberal measures, and dwells upon the fact that the Hungarian Diet has greatly contributed by its attitude to the reconcilia tion of Austria with Hungary. ITALY. FLORENCE, May 15. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Ferrara, the Minister of Finance, brought in the Ecclesiastical Property Bill. He stated that 600 millions will be levied for the use of the State on the ecclesiastical property. This amount will be made up partly by the public Rentes inscribed in the Great Book, and appropriated to the Depart ment of Public Worship, and 12 millions of lire from the ecclesiastical establishments. The re mainder will be obtained by an extraordinary tax on the ecclesiastical property, in the proportion of 25 per cent. of the capital. The payment of the extraordinary tax will be effected in eight half yearly instalments, the first commencing January 1,1867. The amount remaining after deduction of the extraordinary tax will be applied to ecclesias tical pensions, and to defray the expenses of public worship. The financial operations sanctioned by this law will be contracted to a commercial com pany, which will receive a maximum commission of 30 per cent. SPAIN. MADRID, May 14. The printers and editors of Spain are signing a petition to the Cortes against a bill brought in the Chamber of Deputies by the Catalonian members increasing the import duty on paper. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HECLA. QUEENSTOWN, May 15 The Cunard steamer Hecla arrived here at 12.30 a.m. to-day, with 88 passengers. She landed 18 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1 a.m. All well. ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. SOUTHAMPTON, May 14. The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, from New York on the 2nd, has arrived. She brings 25 sacks of mails for London, also for London $5,820 in specie. NEW YORK, May 2, Morning. The Democratic candidates for the mayoralty and the city judgeship at Baltimore were yesterday elected by large majorities. Mr. Wilson addressed the negroes at Wilmington yesterday, and was enthusiastically received. The Japanese Commissioners were presented to Mr. Seward yesterday, and will be presented to the President to-morrow. The Judiciary Committee will resume the im peachment investigation to-morrow. The New York papers publish the following Mexican news :—A despatch from the agent of Juarez has arrived at New Orleans, and been tele graphed to Signor Romero at Washington, in which it was stated that Miramon was dead, the Imperial forces disbanded, Marquez completely defeated, Queretaro captured, and the Emperor Maximilian in concealment. It is reported that Canales had declared in favour of Ortega, and was besieging Matamoras. Ile was expected to capture the city so soon as he should receive reinforcements under Cortinas. Advices reeeive3 here from Jap.tn to April 3, via San Francisco, state that the British Minister had demanded and received an apology from the Japanese Government for insults offered to British officers. The Tycoon had invited all foreign Ministers to meet him at Osaka on the 30th April. Another disastrous fire has occurred at Yoko- hama. ARRIVAL OF THE CIMBRIA. SOUTHAMPTON, May 14. The Hamburg and Arnerican ! Company's steam ship Cirnbria, from New York on the 4th inst., has arrived here with 383 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 33 bags of mails for London, $2,000 in specie, and 800 tons measurement of cargo for Hamburg. On the 13th she spoke the English schooner Q. D. 8., 6,079 ; the Oldenberg barque, No. 151; and a French screw steamer, barque-rigged, with double topsail yards, steering west. On the 14th, off Start Point, the English barque Gang° and the Hamburg brig, No. 259, steering west. She experienced strong easterly winds through out the voyage, or would have arrived yesterday. NEW YORK, May 4. The Supreme Court heard yesterday the argu ment of Mr. Robert J. Walker on behalf of the Mississippi injunction. He declared the jurisdiction of- the Court unquestionable, and cited, in proof, numerous cases involving the same point decided by the Court. He stigmatised the Reconstruction Act as despotic, oppressive, and unconstitutional. The ordinances of secession were nullities, the re l•ellion failing, and the rights of the States were the same as before the insurrection. He urged the Court to defend the Constitution, notwithstanding that the Attorney-General had asked it to shrink from its sworn duty. • Mr. Davis has petitioned the Circuit Court o.f Virginia, setting forth his continued imprisonment and his readiness and anxiety for trial, and praying the Court to issue a habeas corpus writ to bring the petitioner before the Court for trial. Judge Un derwood has issued a writ, returnable on the 13th, requiring the Marshal of Virginia to bring Mr. Davis before the Court. It is reported that the Government has instructed the commander of Fortress Monroe to obey the writ. The garrison of Lynchburg, Virginia, has been increased, in consequence of reported evidence of disloyalty among the population. The Georgia and Alabama papers urge General Pope to issue an order similar to that issued by General Sickles for the relief of debtors. General Pope has received a subpoena from the Supreme Court in the Georgia injunction case. It is stated that he will appear. General Ord has announced that, pending the decision of the Attorney-General, the disfranchis ing clause of the Reconstruction Act will be strictly construed. Outrages by negroes in North Carolina are re ported as becoming frequent. Senator Wilson addressed a large assemblage of whites and negroes at Charleston yesterday. He urged his hearers to support the Republican party, and advocated harmony between the two races. lie expressed a belief that concurrence in the Re construction Act would secure the South immediate representation in Congress. _ _ The Negro Radical Convention at Mobile on Thursday adopted resolutions promising to support the Republican party, and claiming the right of social and political equality with the whites. The President yesterday received the Japanese Commissioners, when reciprocal hops for the pros perity and friendly intercourse of the two countries were expressed. The working men of Chicago have struck for a limitation of the day's work to eight hours. A riot was apprehended. The New York papers publish Mexican news from Matamoras to the 29th ult., stating that Gomez was at Tampico, and had pronounced against Juarez and in favour of Ortega. The yellow fever was raging at Vera Cruz. The revolution at Hayti was renewed, and anarchy prevailed. Several aspirants to the Pre sidency were effecting a military organisation of ttNir Adherents, APLAREN, ALP., AND THE REFORM I3ILL. A letter from Mr. M'Laren, brother-in-law to Mr. Bright, to the chairman of his committee, is published in the Edinburgh Courant. The hon. member, in defending his vote last week in favour of the Government, says :—" The arguments for and against the two sides of the question occupy seventeen columns of the ?blies of this morning, and I leave them there for the consideration of all concerned. The result of the debate on my own mind was that I considered it my duty to vote with the Government. In the way in which the bill will now be adjusted, no working man in England, being a householder, who is willing to take a little trouble to obtain' the franchise, need go without it. The degree of trouble is this—Government provides at every post-office within a burgh blank printed forms of claim to be sent by the compound householder to the parish officers, claiming 'to be rated, and personally to pay his rates ; and when the parish officer gets the notice properly filled up, he is bound to enter the claimant on • the roll. This printed form costs nothing, and when put in the post-office the postmaster is bound to send it to the parish officer also free of postage. That officer writes to the claimant if any arrears of rates are dne, and if so, they must be pail before his name is put on the roll, and this letter also goes free. These matters being thus attended to by the working man, he remains on the roll of electors as long as he pays his poor-rates. I admit that there is thus a little trouble imposed upon the working man which I would rather see done away with ; but as it was well understoood on both sides of the house that the defeat of the Government would occasion the withdrawal of the bill for the present session, I felt impelled by a sense of duty, acting on my own responsibility (for no one knew how I was to vote an hour before the division took place), to support the Government amendment. Another point of much importance to us, although subordinate to the greater question of a good bill for England, is, that the burgh franchise which the present Government bas promised to Scotland is more liberal than any Government has ever pro posed ; and if the other parts of their bill shall be conceived in the sane spirit—of which, however, I know nothing—we may hope to get a good bill for Scotland passed during the present session. Iu the views which I have thus expressed I know that many ' good men and true' of the Liberal party concur, and many of those who voted against us, for special reasons, have privately expressed their gratification at our success." Billingsgate Market. Yesterday, at a meeting of the city magistrates held at the Guildhall, including the Lord Mayor, a report was brought up from the General Purposes Committee of the Court of Aldermen by Mr. Alder man Rose, with suggestions for facilitating the traffic in connection with Billingsgate Market, which has long been in an unsatisfactory state from over crowding, and had at length become intolerably vexatious to all persons concerned in taking fish to and from the market. When the Thames was the only highway for conveying fish to Billingsgate the approaches to the market by water were compara tively easy, as, indeed, they still are, but of late years enormous quantities of fish have been brought to the market from places all along the sea coast by railway, and especially by the Great Northern Railway. These, on their arrival at the railway termini, are conveyed in vans to Billingsgate early in the morning by way of Lower Thames-street, a narrow old-fashioned thoroughfare, as most Londoners know, and on every !market day great delay and confusion take place in the approaches to the market, consequent upon the tardy manner in which the fish is unloaded, and upon much of it never being unloaded at all, the fish salesmen there having fallen into the habit of selling fish by sample, and so detaining the vans containing it and the men and horses for often as much as four hours at a time. The confusion is vastly increased by the simultaneous rush of carts and trucks to the market to convey away the fish when sold. The existing state of things was recently brought to a crisis by the city magistrates fining some of the great railway carriers for obstructing the approaches to the market. That, however, did not remedy the evil, and lately Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the railway carriers, Mr. Thorne, the traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway Company, and many of the principal inhabitants of the Ward of Billingsgate, memorialised the Court of Alder men on the subject. Yesterday, accordingly, the Court was occupied with the consideration of the matter. The report of their committee, presented by Mr. Alderman Rose, stated that they had been attended by the memorialists, and also by Colo nel Fraser, the Commissioner of City Police, with the latter of whom th e y h a d con f erred as to the practicability of carrying out certain sug gestions for facilitating the traffic, without inter fering with other branches of trade conducted in the neighbourhood of Billingsgate. The result was that yesterday, on the recommendation of the com mittee and of the City Commissioner of Police, the Court of Aldermen adopted a regulation for the future management of the market traffic, to the effect that vans arriving at Billingsgate before half-past 7 in the morning will not be permitted to remain in the street after 8 o'clock, but at that hour, whether ;hey will be unloaded or not, they will be removed by the police ; and that vans with fish arriving after 8, and between that hour and 9, shall be allowed half an hour for unloading, at the expiration of which they will likewise be removed by the police, notice in each case being first given to the consignee of the fish. The Court also passed some subsidiary regu lations with the same view, and empowered the City Commissioner of Police to carry them into practical effect. It was stated incidentally by Alderman Rose that much of the present confusion and delay in approaches to the market was attributable to the practice of keeping back the inferior kinds of fish on their arrival at Billingsgate in order to enhance the price of the better sorts, and especially was it attributable to the practice, adopted of late years by fish salesmen in the m ar k e t o f se lling their fish by samples, and thus, instead of emptying the vans of the fish consigned to them, converting them for hours into depots for the sale of it. PARLIAMENTARY REGISTERS.—Lord Amberley has laid before the House of Commons a bill declaring that no person shall be entitled to have his name inserted more than once upon a register of persons entitled to vote for members of Parliament ; and that if from any cause the name of any voter shall appear more than once the revis ing barrister, upon proof of notice having been sent to such voter by some person on the list requiring him to attend and elect in respect of which qualification he will be upon the register, shall, unless such voter attend before him and make his election, strike off from the register every repeti tion of the name after the first entry of it. But if he at tends ho may make his election. DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE.--0a Friday Dr. Lan kester held inquests upon two persons who died very sud denly without apparent reason. The first was hel dat Horn sey on the body of a police-constable of the N division, who, after having been exposed to the sun the whole of the pre vious day, suddenly fell dead upon his beat. It was found that death resulted from sunstroke. A constable's hat was weighed anel found to b 3 10 ounces in weight. The jury expressed an opinion that this was too heavy. The second inquest was held at the T wyford Arms, T wyford-street, Islington, on the body of Josiah. Butternattt, aged 25. The deceased was engaged at the Imperial Gasworks to convey coals by means of a hand-waggon from the store to the retort. In doing this he repeatedly passed under a skylight through which the sun came very power fully. Suddenly he became very giddy, and reeled about like a drunken man. As he was being led from the top of the building where he was working he attempted to jump over the rails, but he was restrained. Before a doctor could be fetched he expired. Death in this case also was caused by sunstroke. The juries returned verdicts accordingly. —Express. GREAT NORTHERN llosmAL, Caledonian-road. —Her Grace the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland and the Right Hon. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., have just en rolled their names amongst the patronesses and vice-pre sidents of this charity, and sent liberal donations. Two thousand pounds is all that is now due for the purchase of the new hospital, with treble the number of beds for the sick poor. - THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—At the meeting of the members of this body yesterday the pre sident, Mr. John Fowler, announced that the late Mrs. Locke, the widow of Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., past presi dent, had bequeathed to the Institution of Civil Engineers the full-length portrait, by Grant, of her late husband, to ether with a §thu 91 42,000, foo of legacy duty. Onlll/11: t Toll/a HER MAJESTY, &c• OSBORNE, May 14. The Queen drove out ydsterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Prince Leopold. Princess Louise drove out this morning, attended by the lion. Mrs. Gordon. Princess Beatrice went out aLo. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visited her Majesty yesterday, and remained to luncheon. The Rev. George Prothero had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal family yester day. Colonel Maude left Osborne to-day. The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the lion. Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in Waiting. The marriage of the King of Bavaria has just been fixed for the 12th October, the anniversary of that of his father, Maximilian 1., in 1842, and of his grandfather , Louis 1., in 1810. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAX 14. At a meeting of the Hebdomadal Council in the dele gates' room on Monday, May 13, it was agreed that the proctors forthe year 1868-69 be admitted to office on Wed nesday, Aprills, and that the Encmaia of the year 1868 do take place on Wednesday, June 17. In a Convocation to be holden on Tuesday, the 21st inst.' at 2 o'clock, the forms of statute on the subject of the Poetry Professorship and of Professors' Fees, which were accepted by Congregation on Tuesday, the 7th inst., will be submitted to the House. In a Congregation to be held immediately after, the sta tute on tho subject of " The Parks," which was promul gated in Congregation on Tuesday, May 7, will be sub mitted to the house in two votes. The Professor of Music (Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley) will give his terminal lecture in the Music School, on Wednes day, June 5, at 2 o'clock. The Public Examination of Candidates for degrees in music will be held on Thursday, June 6, in the Music School. Candidate! are to be there at 10 a.m. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14. The Board of Classical Studies give notice that the sub jects appointed by them for the previous examination in the Michaelmas Term, 1868, are—St. Matthew's Gospel, Iso crates ad Demonicum and Panegyrieus, Virgil's "Georgics,' books 111. and IV.; and that the subjects appointed by. them for the general examination to be held in 1868 for ordinary degrees are—Plato's " Protagoras ;" Horace, "Epistles," book I. HONOURS IN LAW. The viva voce examination of candidates for Honours in Law will be held on Tuesday, October 22, and the follow ing days, at 10 a.m., in the Law Schools. Each candidate will have to prepare a short written explanation in Eng lish of the particular maxim or principle he may select for a viva voce discussion. For those discussions candidates are recommended to select each his subject from the fol lowing maxims and principles : 1. Equity.-1. Equity follows the law. 2. Where there is equal equity the law must prevail. 3. Equity looks upon that as done which ought to be dons.—See story's "Equity Jurisprudence," secs. 56-64. 11. Conflict of Laws.-1. The .law of a place where a contract is made ought to prevail. 2. Foreign laws must be proved as facts to the Court. 3. Crimes are local, and by common law exclusively punishable where committed. —See Story's "Conflict of Laws," 2d edition, secs. 241 and 620-638. 111. General Principles.-1. In jure non remota, and proxima causa spectatur. 2. Actus non facit roum nisi mans sit rea. 3. Volenti non fit injuria.—See Broom's " Legal Maxims.' IV. Contracts.-1. Ex nudo pacto non oritur actio. 2. Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. 3. Caveat emptor. 4. Re spondeat superior.— See Broom's "Legal Maxims." V. Evidence.-1. Derivative or second-hand proofs are not receivable as evidence. '2. The opinion of witnesses are not receivable as evidence. 3. Res inter alios acts. alteri nocere non debet.—See Best on "Evidence," and Broom's "Legal Maxims." In addition to tt viva voce discussion of one of the selected maxims or principles each candidate will be examined viva voce in a common special subject, which, on the present occasion, will be "Foreign Enlistment Acts ;" See " Kent's International Law," by J. T. Abdy, chapter 7, and " Wheaton's Elements of International Law," second anno tated edition, by W. B. Lawrdnce, Part IV., chapter 3, sections 15-17. N.B. It is requested that notice be given by candidates to the Regius Professor of Laws, at 35, Sydney-street, of their intention to appear at the examination, and of the question for discussion selected by each of them, on or before Friday, the 11th of October. The order in which they will be examined will be published on the door of the Law Schools a few days before the examination. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. G. W. QUALLETT.---Th e members of the Westminster Club, Albemarle-street, as sembled last night in'considerable numbers in the draw ing room of that institution for the purpose of testifying their warm appreciation of the excellent qualities which chdrae terise that gentleman, and in acknowledgment of his valu able and prolonged services in. a secretarial capacity. Mr. Quallett was entertained at dinner during the evening by the testimonial committee, after which the presentation , consisting of a purse of gold and a handsome silver salver , was made, Dr. Evan B. Jones convoying the sentiments of the donors in a speech of the happiest kind, which was responded to with much feeling by the recipient of the testimonial. The salver, a large and elegantly chased piece of plate, was supplied by M r. Thomas, of Bond-street, and bears the following inscription :—" Presented, with a purse of 120 sovereigns, by the Members of the Westminster Club, to George Watts Quallett, Esq., as a mark of their esteem, and in 'acknow ledgment of his valuable services as their IlonorarY Secretary." THE STRIKE OF ENGINE-DRIVERS ON THE NORTH EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, at the Darlington Police court, the adjourned case against eight of the engine" drivers who left their work on the 10th April last came on for hearing. The railway company, contrary to the practice pursued in the earlier stages of the strike, did n ot appear to wish to press the prosecutions. The solicitor fat the prosecution, Mr. Richardson, of York, stated that if the men pleaded guilty the company did not wish further to press the case, beyond asking what the contract with the men had stipulated, that their wages, if they left work without propor notice, should be forfeited. This course was adopted, the men consenting to plead guilty. Th e , wages of all but two of the men summoned averaged a t the least £5, in some cases over £6 being due. It w as stated on the part of the company that they would not re ceive the men back. The men who were summoned wer e the first to strike, and in response to the call of whom the men on the other parts of the line also turned out. Al l the arrangements on the line are now perfected, though two or three passenger trains are still kept off. A FENIAN RISING.—Yes, there is life. A mi le away behind the house they are burning furze upon Knockrea. The huntsmen will not thank those W il° destroy the cover. Yet these are not furze-burners, no that I look again. The light is too steady and too r e d ' It must be just above the ledge on which the police-sta tion can be discerned, white above its own dark shadovr• It is extinguished, and flashes out again. Once more I tnY to fix the spot where it appeared, once more it blazes oat and stronger than before. Is that an electric flash, m ark ing out a path of light among the trees, and glancing ° the red-barked pine ? Signal answers signal, as I live; They speak to each other across the gorge, those me n °P° the hill and somo around my homestead. All is still as death, but near me there are others awake, and watching like myself. The stealthy drawing of a bolt, the rattling of a chain, the creak of a hinge upon the gate , and se denly the clank of hoofs on the hard roadway. My h°r6B ? are away ! Have they broken loose, or are they ridclent, I shout, and in reply hear from the skirt of the wo od, h i c k rible in the night's quite, that demoniac war -whoop wit James Fitzpatrick learned of the Indians—a succession c j , yells ending in chuckling laughter. It is Fit zpatrielc-; „ has thrown off the mask at last ! Distant, even more e:', taut, is the clatter of the hoofs, now ringing more cl ly r'; as they mount the hills, now dying away in the 11 011° 00 At last it is heard only at distant intervals, and the° - more.—Dickens's "All the Year found." ting THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEER VISIT.--A. In ee inci of the Court of Common Council will be he ld to- ll rr o °,, at which Mr. Crescent Robinson will propo se the fo f th ing resolution:—" That on the occasion of the visit ? le Belgian riflemen to this country in July next, it is desir o ' fier that this corporation should in some fitting mann er t he to them a public entertainment, in acknowledgment to enthusiastic reception and great hospital it y extenciter our countrymen and fellow-citizens on the occasion of toectiai visit to Brussels last year. That it be r eferred to a sP the ward committee to consider the best mode of carrying same into effect, and report thereon to this court." C. Y ACHTI NG INTELLIGENCE. -- The - wto n, schooner Sappho, 104 tons, the property of Mr. -L.'a Cape which made the successful voyage round the Nort a h:_ li ' v er last summer, is being put into commission fo r raptt e_" t o northern cruise. As tho Rollo canoe, which acc(i)t Id) the yacht to Norway, is going to the Paris Exhib is Mr. Macgregor's Rob Roy, a new boat (the La dy . 1 1: 01 being built, with a centre board, and supplied Iran o u p i )40Ny FrinQioo, t v .