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MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any tra ♦ellers or agents, and that their only Establishments are the above-mentioned. Slitt LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1868. It seems that we are not to have any peace this Session, for as fast as one difficulty is surmounted another starts up. The chief regret that this Oc casions is the great loss of time it causes, and, of course, each day makes the chance of passing the necessary measures more and more remote. Ser geant ARMSTRONG last night gave notice that on Monday week he should move " that the position of her MAJESTY'S Government is opposed to the principles of representative government, subver sive of constitutional administration, and incom patible with the character and dignity of Parlia ment." When critically examined these grand soundiniphrases resolve themselves into nothing, or at best must be regarded in the light of one of those acrimonious attacks which of late have been so unhappily frequent. What possible object but that of faction can such a scheme be meant to attain. Every one who is qualified to judge must see that in reality there is nothing at all unsuitable in the position of the Government, and the unusual part of the affair rests with Mr. GLADSTONE, who has thought fit to act in defiance of all established forms and usages, and to do his best to delay the meeting of the Reformed Parliament beyond the time fixed for it, and looked forward to by the country. It remains to be seen whether Mr. GLAD STONE will support this motion of the 25th instant, or if he will act the more spirited course of letting it alone. If he throw in his aid and induce his im mediate followers to lend their assistance, all we can say is that he will damage himself irreparably in the opinion of the country, and show that he is guided by factious motives, and not inspired, as his more ardent admirers would have us believe, by the desire to effect the change in the Irish Church Establishment. Let us hope until the event proves the contrary that the right hon. gentleman will have more sense than to act such a part, and that this motion will meet with as little support and encouragement as it deserves. It is idle to suppose tnat Mr. DISRAELI will change his mind in conse quence of it, and that the policy he has indicated to the House will be departed from. If not altogether blinded by faction, we should think that hon. mem bers must perceive the fallacy of the course they indicated, and comprehend that, by supporting the proposition thus put forth, they will be exhibiting a spectacle of factious opposition such as the House of Commons has rarely witnessed. Mr. BOUVERIE was kind enough to tell Mr. DISRAELI that he need not have taken the trouble to go down to Osborne to consult the QUEEN, in order to procure a more early dissolution, because, under any circumstances, the new Parliament can not meet until December. The Solicitor-General very truly said that Mr, BOOVERIE had been most ingenious in discovering obstacles in the way of the early dissolution, and he seemed anxious to procure time for the delays he threatened in respect to the process of legislation, but he showed that these were not impossible to surmount. The electoral list can be fully made up by the 10th of October if the staff of revising barristers be increased, and ten days' publication of the list instead of twenty-five were sufficient he declared. No doubt the most is made of all this by those anxious to show that an autum nal session is out of the question ; but, when care fully examined,the obje c ti ons do not prove valid, nor are the obstacles seen to be insuperable. Sir C. O'LOGIJLEN called the attention of the House to the want of a permanent Royal residence in Ireland, and went into long details to carry outhisobject. Mr. IhsRA.ELI agreed that the influence of the Sovereign was most beneficial, but the Lord-Lieutenant was more than was made out by the hon. baronet. Mr. GLADSTONE concurred with Mr. DISRAELI in order ing the notice to be withdrawn, while he sympa thised with its meaning. It will be evident at a glance that the present time is not a suitable one THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1868. for the consideration of this matter, which may nevertheless be appropriately regarded at a future period. The intelligence which reaches us from Wash ington by the cable shows that the Radicals are anxious to strengthen their ranks in Congress. On Thursday the House of Representatives passed a bill, admitting five of the Southern States to repre sentation, on condition that they should have rati fied the constitutional amendment, and further that they should never deprive of the suffrage those persons who are now entitled to vote. That is to say, the States are only allowed to send their Representatives . to the national assembly so long as the Radicals and negroes are allowed the pre ponderance in the constituencies. Such conditional legislation, pledging the future by the action of the present, is neither reasonable nor reliable. The Congress of next year will not abide by the de cisions of the Congress now in existence any more than the Commons of 1869 will be bound by the vagaries of their predecessors in 1868. If the Southern States are entitled by the Constitution of the country to a share in the representation, there can be no reason for making their exercise of that right conditional on the number or character of their voters. This is, applying Lord RUSSELL'S favourite " finality " doctrine on a wholesale scale, but the march of events and the progress of time are usually too strong for such stationary theories. The five States honoured by this conditional ad mission are the two Carolinas, Georgia, Ala bama, and Louisiana, the very strongholds of the Confederacy, and consequently the least likely, if unfettered and unbiassed, to return Radical members to the national councils. We learn by the telegram, what we might easily have guessed with out its assistance, that the bill in question was passed by a strict party vote, all the Republicans voting for it. If it were possible to introduce a few new members into the Senate in time for the final vote on the Impeachment the political consequence of the measure would have been very much greater. As it is, however, the acts of the House of Repre sentatives as at present constituted can hardly affect the future legislation of the country. The arrival of the Java, from New York on the 6th, bring us further details of the progress of the trial, although, of coarse, the actual news is con siderably in arrears of that brought by the tele graph. Mr. BINGHAM, in his closing argument against the PRESIDENT, which he com menced on May 4th, went over the old ground, and declared that the life or death of the nation depended upon the decision of the Senate. He laid down in plain terms a doctrine that is suffi ciently startling to the impartial observer, and would certainly not have been accepted by the original founders of the Constitution of the United States. The Senate, and not the Supreme Court, according to Mr. BINGHAM, is the final arbiter in constitu tional questions, and is the supreme final judicial tribunal of the country. If so, the name of " Supreme Court" is a contradiction in terms, and should belong to the Senate. All the paraphernalia of Chief Justice and forms of law are worse than useless, since they only assume powers which do not exist. Coming to the popular argument, Mr. BINGHAM affirmed that it was a fallacy to pretend that the PRESIDENT was bound to protect the people from unconstitutional laws, as the people were the guardians of their own honour, and Congress was directly responsible to them. To judge from the results of recent elections, the people are not very well satisfied with the manner in which their Representatives have discharged their respon sibilities, and we find that the legal opinions of the country are equally opposed to the convenient con stitutional doctrines of the Managers of the trial. According to the IVeto York Herald, Mr. FESSEN DEN has prepared a legal opinion that the evidence and arguments of the Managers do not justify a conviction, and that STANTON'S case is not within the Tenure-of-Office Law. What makes this:more noticeable is that several Republican Senators are reported to concur in it. Here lies the weakness of the Radtpal cause. Men who are above the influence of faction, and are in dependent in their social and political posi tion, will not yield to the arrogant dictation of such men as STEVENS and SUMNER. In the House of Representatives the Radicals are not only numerically stronger, but the politicians are of a different stamp, and the adventurers and soldiers of :fortune always go to the winning side. The Senators have, many of them, other interests to consider beyond the temporary influence of the moment, and thus it is not improbable that the elaborately concocted scheme of the PRESIDENT'S reckless antagonists may rebound upon themselves, and the Radical party, " hoist by its own petard," may owe its final disruption and discomfiture to the long-talked of Impeachment. Following up the remarks which we laid before the public on the death of HENRY Lord BROUGIUM, the far-famed HENRY BROUGHAM of days of yore, we cannot help observing that it is not a little singular that he should have passed away from us just at the present crisis. We are in the last year of the old Reform Bill of 1832, and all readers of the history of the last thirty years know full well the interest and part he took in that great measure; and, as it was not long ago remarked to us by our correspondent," A Lover and Observer of Historical Dates and Facts," Lord BROUGHAM, Lord DERBY, Lord RUSSELL, and the present Lord GREY, were a few weeks, not to say days, ago the only remains of that old and time-worn Whiggery which carried us through all the struggles of that awful crisis and drama of 1831-32. Another string of the harp is now broken—another stone of the house has fallen. It is an old remark that every string of an old harp which breaks shows that the harp is fast wearing out, and has seen the best of its days. And this is the case with the twilight of that brilliant mid-day sun which, with the names of BROUGHAM, GREY, MELBOURNE, ALTIIORP, RUSSELL, STANLEY, and HOWICK ruled this nation between November, 1830, and May, 1834. We then held a position which we had never before attained, and certainly no Whig Ministry has ever been able to aspire to since. Unless we except the twelve years of the Commonwealth, there never was a time, certainly there never was an Administration which so much commanded the esteem, respect, we might oven say the dread and fear, of more than one party in the State, as did that Ministry, in which the great man, whose loss we are now lamenting, for four years held the Great Seal, and of which he was so illustrious and conspicuous a member. Now let us turn from the days of this great man's prosperity to the days of his comparative adversity. For all statesmen in opposition are, comparatively speaking, in adversity. They are like a surgeon be fore he obtains practice, a barrister before he ob tains briefs, or a solicitor before he gets into practice. A Statesman in Opposition is, in one sense of the word at any rate, down in the world, and being anxious to raise himself sets his energies and wits to work. And this was the case with HENRY . BROUGHAM,—speaking in round numbers, from the year 1800, when he was little more than 30 years of age, that is, while still a young man, down to 1830, when he became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain : in other words, during the first 30 years of the present century. And now, last not least, another important point forces itself upon our consideration, namely, the wonderful contrast which exists between the Whig Opposition when it was headed by HENRY BROUGHAM and Lord GREY, and the so-called Liberal Opposition of the present time. We were then ruled by a Ministry which, though entitled to merit in many respects, nevertheless re sisted reform and progress in a most unfair and shameful manner, and which, in consequence, was not unjustly an unpopular Government. We then had an Opposition which was worth something, such as the present is no muro to be compared to than is a deformed child with a comely ancestor. Had the question of the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church been brought forward at any time prior to the Emancipation Act of 1829, no oue could have wondered at or condemned the movement ; that is, no one at all desirous of civil or religious liberty. The Ireland of the present thy is no more to be compared to the Ireland of fifty, or even twenty years ago, than summer is to be compared to winter, or rain to sunshine. Where are the awful accounts of the murders which crowded our newspapers but a few years ago ; where are those agrarian outrages since the death of The Liberator, in the days of SMITH O'BantN, and of the last French Revolu tion ? But even at that period Ireland was by no means in the disturbed state and condition she was in during the years 1833 and 1831, or, when O'CONNELL was fighting hard for a Repeal of the Union. Referring, again, to the present Opposition, however, we would reiterate our re mark that were we now in 1828 instead of 1868, there might be some excuse for pressing forward so very expeditiously the abolition of the Protestant Established Church in Ireland, even at the fag end of a moribund Parliament, considering the state and condition of Ireland at that time. The perpetuation of the State Church in Ireland we have now for many years resolutely opposed. But we do decidedly object to the conduct of Mr. GLADSTONE and his colleagues in having brought the subject forward at such a time, and in such a manner as they have done, considering that during all the years they were in office they never thought of mooting the question. It could therefore have been brought forward from no other motive than that of faction and place-hunting. Reverting , however, to the lamented death of Lord BROUGHAM, we would recall to mind the fact that he was Lord Chancellor in the only strong and really respectable Whig Government England was ever governed by, and that there his Whig career may be said to have ended. For never, daring any one of the Ministries that ruled us from 1835, when the late Lord MELBOURNE re tained to office, and for the second time in his life became Premier, down to the dissolution of Lord RUSSELL'S Ministry in the summer of 1866, could Lord BROUGHAM be called anything more than a most qualified supporter of the Government. During the five years of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administration, Lord BROUGHAM was far oftener to be found voting with the Government than with the Opposition. And it is a remarkable fact that the old income-tax, which was so strenu ously opposed by HENRY BROUGHAM in 1816, when Lord LIVERPOOL'S Government proposed to make it a perpetual tax at £5 per cent.' so streuously opposed by him that upon the motion of HENRY BROUGHAM every paper connected with the tax was burned, that same individual a quarter of a century afterwards was the first to uphold its reimposition by the Ministry of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL. He voluntarily gave his support, in fact, to many, if not to most, of the admirable measures brought forward by that illustrious states man. We have cause, therefore, to recall to mind, with grateful admiration, the memory of HENRY Lord BROUGHAM and VAUX, as a leading member of the Whig party governing Great Britain, both in Opposition and in office, from 1800 to 1834, but as no member of the Whig or Liberal party in any subsequent date, from the last-named year downwards. INDIA, CIIINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, May 16. 'The Delta arrived at 5 a.m. to-day. The mails leave by the 11.30 train. SOUTHAMPTON, May 16. The Hamburg and American Co.'s steamer Germania, from New York, arrived off the Needles at 9.35 a.m. to-day. NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (Via Panama.) The Rakaia, with advices from Sydney to the Ist April, and New Zealand to the Bth instant, and 50 passengers, arrived at Panama on the 4th inst. (one day early). The mails are due by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamer Douro, expected to arrive at Plymouth on the 28th inst. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, May 16. The Royal mail steamer, M'Gregor Laird, arrived in the Mersey this morning from the West Coast of Africa and Madeira. Her dates are—Fernando Po, April 11 ; Cameroons, 12 ; Brass River, 15 ; Bonny, 15 ; Benin, 17 ; Lagos, 19 ; Accia, 21 ; Cape Palmas, 24 ; Sierra Leone, 28 ; Teneriffe, May 7 ; Madena, 9. Health and trade on the coast were generally good. No news of import ance. The M'Gregor Laird brings £420 and $2,000 in specie. THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRON, April 24. Two Paraguayan steamers have been sunk by the Brazilians. A heavy bombardment of Humaita is going on, and the assault will shortly follow. It is reported that the British war steamer Linnet, was fired upon, and damaged, while pass ing Humaita. The Deputy Senor Joas Selveira de Sonza has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Senor Pereira de Andrade has been nominated Secretary of Legation at London ; the Chevalier de Albugnergue at Lisbon, and Senor Mill e Aldine at Washington. Senor Soubragy has been charged with the mis sion of arranging the Pernambuco and San Paulo Railway question. The Sarrazinto (Sarmiento ?) ticket has been voted in Buenos Ayres for the Presidency of the Argentine Confederation. Specie payments will be resumed at Montevideo on June 1. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen haying been elected Fellows of the College at previous meetings of the Council wore admitted as such on the 14th inst., viz.—Messrs. Robert Pilkington Linton, of her Majesty's Indian Army, diploma of membership dated November 16, 1832, and George Woods, of South port, near Liver/poi, May 25, 1810. At this meeting Messrs. C. Heath and Johnson Smith, Follows of the Col lege, attended and received from the President the Jack sonian prizes recently awarded to them for their essays on professional subjects. CORRESPONDENCE FRO (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, May 1,::` No one believes the statement of the Opinion Nationale, that our Government is preparing a new expedition to Rome. There is no doubt, however, that the relations between France and Italy are very far from cordial. The marked unfriendly reception given to Prince Napoleon, and the enthusiasm shewn for the Prince of Prussia, has produced an unfavourable impression here. It is believed also that the Tunisian imbroglio has been caused by the intrigues of the Italian Consul at Tunis. A. long interview on this subject took place yesterday between the Marquis de Moustier, Lord Lyons, Baron von Goltz, S. Nigra, and Djemit Pasha. It was time that the consultation took place, for, if we are to believe the evening papers, the French Consul at Tunis has already presented an ultimatum. The failure of the Chemin de Fer de l'Est Company to purchase the Luxemburg Railway has, I hear, caused con siderable chagrin to Marshal Niel, who had counted upon acquiring that line for strategical purposes. Now that the matter has fallen through, the Paris journals are beginning to take note of the fact that the Dutch Govern ment has not yet begun to demolish the fortifications at Luxemburg. The SiMe states that your Government has made representations on the matter. Prince Napoleon's next visit is giving rise to much speculation. He is going to Vienna, and thence into Aus trian Poland, where he will meet Prince Czartoryski and Prince Sapicha. This interview seems to confirm the impression that the Polish question will shortly be re vived, and that Austria and France have common views respecting it. The black spots just now are blackest and largest in Central and Eastern Europe. The debate on free trade was resumed this afternoon by M. Pouyer Quertier. He contended that the commercial treaty between France and England was agreed upon by the Government and Mr. Cobden without taking into account the adverse advice given by the Superior Council of Commerce. He declared that all the promises of cheap manufactures and food, and of French agriculture raised to the foremost rank, had been falsified. The only sub ject of congratulation was that in February 1870 the treaty would be binding only from year to year, and that France would resume her liberty of action. For once the Government is supported almost unanimously by the Parisian press. M. Thiers finds scarcely a single supporter. Opposition papers, no less than Government organs, denounce the idea of returning to protection. The Debots is astonished at the blindness of the historian of the Revolution to the changes which have taken place, sud at his belief in the possibility of a retrogressive ITt, :)ia, which would be as absurd as the re-establishment of the 355 petty principalities and bishoprics of eighteenth century Germany. The Pressc announced that there would be an amnesty to persons suffering imprisonment for press offences. But the Monitcur has nothing about it, and I fear Saint I'6lagie is not going to open its doors just yet. In connection with this matter, M. Baudrillart, the new editor of the Constitsstionnel, has written a very good article in that paper advising the Government offi cials to use lightly the powers conferred upon them by the new press law, so that journalists may not be turned into martyrs, and reminding editors of their duties and responsibilities. He says that if French journalism is to obtain that consideration which is due to it, the press must be an instrument of progress, not of disorder, and that a journal should be a tribune, not a 1 o One of the first fruits of the new Press Law is a weekly review, which is to be started under the editorship of Messrs. Jules Favre, Picard, and Marie. It is to be entitled L'Elccteur, and is to be devoted to the advocacy of principles of parliamentary government. Wonderful to relate, an appeal against a press convic tion has been admitted. The proprietors of the Mar seilles Sentai hone and the Gcz'tte du Illidi had been con demned for publishing an unauthorised account of a trial, but, on appealing, the sentence has been reversed. The case of the Courrier Francais was to have come on to-day, but it has been postponed and transferred to another court, it is said at the request of the president of the court in which these cases have usually been tried, and who is notorious for his severity. Let us hope we are about to see a milder regime. The monitor Rochambeau, which our Government bought of the United States about a year ago for about £300,000, has just come out of dock at Cherbourg, afterbeing in there for nine months, and having about £120,000 spent upon her.. This costly vessel will, it is said, be unable to keep the sea for more than four or five years, on account of the wretchedly bad wood of which she is constructed. Our journals are writing a good deal about your political crisis, for it gives them an opportunity of declaiming against " personal " government, which, they say, Mr. Disraeli is seeking to introduce at the expense of the par liamentary system. The Etendard has a notable leader on the Jr:sh Church question, and, taking for granted that Jr. Disraeli represents the English nation, laments that you should, when all the world, except Russia, is becoming liberal in matters of religion, be adhering to the old intolerant system. This is how the Etendard's article concludes : " Singular spectacle Of the four chiefs of religion who divide the world, there are two, the Pope and the Sultan, who are really tolerant ; and two, Queen Victoria and the Czar, who are intolerant." I hope you will duly take to limit this cutting rebuke. correspondent of the Times at Pesth, whose letters are always worth reading, writes a column and a half about Turkey, Servia, and Roumania. He says that Turkey has always looked upon Austria as her chief ally, and that in proportion as that country was strong Russia's intrigues might be defied. There was lamentation at Constantinople when the Hapsburgs were beaten at Sadowa, no less than at Rome when they were beaten at Solferino. Now there is rejoicing at the renewed strength which the Imperial House has gained by its concessions. At the same time these concessions have somewhat startled the Turk, because they will inevitably lead to like changes in his own country. There is, too, some little uneasiness as to whether Austria will not be looking for compensations on the Danube, to snake up for those which she lost on the Po. Nevertheless, the Austrian archdukes who have just been visiting Constan tinople have been received with truly imperial magnifi cence, to the chagrin o: General Ignatieff, who sees his master, the Czar, flouted more and more every day. The recall of Baron Budberg from Paris coincides with, if it does not result from, the failure of France to establish an alliance with Russia. For this alliance the Baron has long laboured bard, but in vain. Russia will not detach herself from Prussia, and this Power absolutely refuses to enter into any arrangement with France. A letter from Vilna, dated May 11, speaks in strong terms of the persecutions to which the Poles are exposed on account of their religion. The Roman Catholic bishop has been suddenly sent into exile, and a large number of priests have followed him. But while the ministers of the Church are openly persecuted, it is sought to win over the laity. It is tacitly understood that if a layman will renounce Catholicism and join the " Orthodox" Church, he will find favour with the judges and the magistrates in any case in which he may he interested. Another means of propagandism is the remission of taxes to all those who forsake the old faith for the new. The open way in which the German, Austrian, and Polish papers, inspired by the Vienna Cabinet, are dis cussing the probability of war, is exciting considerable notice. The ex-King of Hanover a few days ago drank a toast to speedy war tetween France and Prussia, and he has just issued an crder to these of his troops who remain faithful to him, and are self-banished at Nancy, in France, in which he promises them a speedy invasion of Prussia at the side of the French. It is mentioned that the Dutch have not begun to demolish the fortifications of Luxemburg, as they were bound to do by last year's Treaty of London. Prince Napoleon is, it is said, to be one of the sponsors to the new Auotrian princess, though, as his Imperial Highness is avowedly an unbeliever in Christianity, it seems difficult to believe the rumour. He is thought to be very sore at his reception in Italy, and the papers say that he left the country in order to avoid the insults to which he was daily exposed. On the other hand, his rival, the Prince of Prussia, was forced to leave off his inspection of the works at Mont Cenis to avoid the ovations to which he was exposed. According to the Ccrrespondance Bullier there is little fear of war, for France would not venture to commence hostilities without the co-operation of Austria, and Bismarck has taken effectual steps to prevent that. The newspaper:3 which lately azsignecl the Crown Princo of Denmark to our Princess Lonice have now found another wife for him, the only Child of the King of Sweden. This match has been talked of repeatedly, and would he an important diplomatic move tending to the realisation of the Scandinavian idea. But we require better authority than the Paris journals for believing that it is to take place. llerr Van Rynen has failed to form a Ministry, and so Holland is still in the midst of its serious political crisis, which has lasted far too long. There is now fear of another dissolution. According to the John Bull, the consecration of the new Bishop of Hereford will take pace. if the legal formalities allow, on the Feast of St. John the Baptist. The scene of the ceremony will most likely be Hereford Cathedral. The assistant prelates are to be the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, Ripon, and perhaps Oxford. The sermon is to be preached by the Deau of Chichester. THE QUEEN VERSUS EY.RE. Mr. J. S. Mill, chairman of the Jamaica Committee, las received from Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., the following etter " 7, Grosvenor•crescent, S.W., April 20, 1868. "Dear Mr. Mill,—l see by the newspapers that the famaica Committee have applied for a summons against Eyre, upon a charge of his having committed misde neanours in his capacity as Governor of Jamaica, under he Act of 11th and 12th William 111., cap. 12, to the 'ffect that if any Governor should be guilty of oppressing tny of his Majest's subjects in the plantations, he might )e indicted and punished in England, and also under he 42nd George 111., cap. 85, and 11th and 12th Victoria, :ap. 42. " Now, when the Jamaica Committee decided to prose ;nth Mr. Eyre on a charge of murder, I withdrew from it ?artly on the ground that I did not consider that Mr. Eyre's acts, however outrageous, amounted to murder; md, secondly, because I thought it would tend to reinstate NIL.. Eyre in public opinion, and have in every way a lisastrous effect if an unsuccessful attempt were made to bring him to trial on such a charge. " Neither of those objections apply to the course now taken by the committee, and though I deeply regret that Such a long time should have elapsed before this step is taken, yet I am decidedly of opinion that Mr. Eyre mght not to escape due punishment for the awful cruelties that were committed with hisexpress sanction in Jamaica. trust, therefore, that the committee will permit me to 3o•operate with them in their present attempt, and as it will no doubt involve a large expenditure, I shall be happy to subscribe £3OO towards it.—l am, dear Mr. Mill, yours very truly, " CHARLES BUXTON. " J. S. Mill, Esq., M.P." THE STATE BALL. By command of the Queen, a State Ball was given on Friday evening at Buckingham Palace, to which a party of upwards of 1,700 was invited. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, Lord Harris, Lord Alfred Hervey, the Hon. C. L. Wood, and Major Teesdale, and escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, arrived at the garden entrance of the Palace about ten o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian arrived, attended by Lady Susan Melville, Mrs. G. G. Gordon, and Colonel G. G. Gordon. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise arrived, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. His Serene Highness the Prince and her Royal Highness the Princess of Teck also arrived. The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in the Palace under the command of Earl Cadogan, the captain, Lieut.-Col. Sir John H. Cooke, the lieutenant of the corps, also attended. A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards, with the band of the regiment, was mounted in the court of the palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, his Serene Highness the Prince and her Royal Highness the Princess of Teck, conducted by the Earl of Bradford (Lord Chamberlain), and attended by their ladies and gentlemen in waiting, entered the ball-room at a quarter past ten o'clock, and the dancing sriortly afterwards com menced. The Princess of Wales wore a blue satin dress, trimmed with Irish lace ; bouffons of tulle, and bouquets of pink roses and silver shamrocks. Head-dress, a tiara of diamonds. Ornaments, pearls and diamonds. Orders, Victoria and Albert, Catherine of Russia, and the Danish order. Princess Christian wore a dress of rich silver tulle over white glace, trimmed with wreaths and bouquets of narcissus and grass. Head-dress, a tiara of diamonds. Necklace and ornaments, opals and diamonds. Orders, Victoria and Albert, and St. Isabel. Princess Louise wore a dress of silver blonde and green satin, trimmed with narcissus and silver braid. Head dress, diamonds and narcissus. Ornaments, diamonds. Orders, Victoria and Albert, and St. Isabel. Coote and Tinney's full band was in attendance, conducted by Mr. Coote, and performed a selection of music. RAILWAY REFORM. An important deputation from the National Conference of Railway Shareholders, held in Manchester on the 14th and 15th ultimo, has waited upon the President of the Board of Trade, for the purpose of urging the adoption of some of the measures advocated at that conference, and their incorporation in the railway bills now before Parlia ment. The deputation consisted of members of the Council of the Railway Shareholders' Association, and several members of Parliament. Mr. T. BAZLEY, M.P., introduced the deputation. He referred to the causes which led to the late conference at Manchester, and the resolutions which were then adopted, and explained to the Duke of Richmond that the object of the deputation's visit to his grace was to urge the accep tance and adoption of the suggestions embodied in those resolutions. Mr. T. WRIGLEY (Bury) urged the desirableness or separating railway management so that there should be two boards—one to control capital, and the other to take charge of revenue. He believed that the adoption of such a system of management would be a great improvement on the present state of things, and would be the means of averting many causes for disappointment and discontent. Mr. WATXIN, M.P., suggested, as a matter of much importance, that existing companies should in some way be relic ved of their obligations. His principal reason for thinking that some such relief should he given was that there still existed an amount of authorised but unraised capital exceeding £100,000,000, a great proportion of which was required for competitive and unremunerative lines. He thought it desirable that rail way boards of directors who desired to take powers to abandon the construction of such lines should have their hands strengthened: by relieving them from the obligations which at present bind them. He also thought it very de sirable that railway shareholders should have more power to discharge existing boards of directors when they found such a thing necessary, and of electing others in their places. Mr. DARBY GRIFFITH, M.P., drew attention to the voting by proxy system which prevails at railway meetings, and urged that, if the system is to be continued, instead of voting by anticipation, the absent shareholders should have a right of voting after a general meeting, when the merits of each side of the question under discus. sion would be properly known. Mr. Davi (representing the Western Railway Share holders' Association of Exeter) supported the sug gestion respecting proxy voting made by Mr. Griffith, and urged the necessity of its immediate adoption. Mr. JOSHUA FIELDEN urged the importance of passing an enactment which would prevent in future the possi bility of railway directors paying interest out of capital, or, in other words, that no interest should be allowed on railways during their construction, or until such lines came into operation and were earning revenue. Mr. HULSE (Manchester) drew attention to the impor tance of having a uniformity of accounts for railway management, and pointed out what he looked upon as defects in the system proposed by the Government. He believed that these defects would be remedied by adopting the model system of accounts introduced at the Man chester conference. Mr. lIENBT RAWSON (Manchester) gave an insight into the history of the Railway Shareholders' Association, of which he had been appointed chairman, and par ticularly dwelt upon the causes which led to its esta blishment, and which induced him to join it. The growing embarrassments of railway companies had ren dered some such action necessary on the part of share holders, and the establishment of the association was the result. To show the importance of the organisation, and the readiness with which the proposition to establish the association was taken up, he mentioned that the first twelve gentlemen who joined the association, several of whom he saw present, held capital amount ing to £3,000,000 of money. The conference at Manchester was held for the purpose of securing united action among railway shareholders, and their ultimate object was to place railway undertakings in a more satisfactory position before the country. (Hear, hear.) The feeling of that conference, he might mention, was not in favour of Government interference in the management of railway companies, but simply that rail way shareholders should have removed from them those impediments and perpetual embarrassments which pre vented them hitherto from being able to adopt such measures as would restore public confidence in railway undertakings. The DuliTe of RICHMOND, in reply, agreed that the ques- ion introduced to his notice by the deputation was one of very great importance, and he assured them that he would lee that the matter should receive the earnest considera tion of the Board of Trade. One or two of the gentlemen who had just addressed him made some suggestions. The details of those suggestions he should be glad to receive from those gentlemen, and submit them to the considera- ion of his colleagues. The deputation then retired. THE IRISH thiuncH.—Within the past day or two appointments have been made to the following livings : Templeree, worth £156 yearly, without any church, and inhabited by 9 Anglicans and 493 Roman Catholics. To this benefice was collated a clergyman wbo was twenty-six years in holy orders. The second benefice is Clashmore, with £153 yearly, besides residence, with 27 Anglicans and 2,418 Roman Catholics. The third living is Guilcagh, with £lOO yearly, besides residence, and con taining 60 Anglicap Ana 992 Roman Cfatholicst . 4.7' Taint ''''' '' r -i- - 113 - 7 .' - ' -z - - crtifirr i , • z,--.--- , HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, May 15. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove in I he grounds yesterday afternoon. Prince and Princess Christian dined with her Majesty in the evening. Her Majesty drove out this morning, accom panied by Princess Louise. LATEST INTELL MENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE STORMING OF MAGDALA. British Camp, near Magdala, April 14. It was reported yesterday morning thatTheoclorus had escaped from Magdala, and that the chiefs of his army wished to surrender. Preparations were immediately made to occupy the mountain. It was then found Theodorus had returned and gone into the Amba, expressing his determination to hold it to the last. All the Europeans, except Mons. Barclell, who had been too ill to move, were now in our possession. The Abyssinian troops on Islangie were disarmed as quickly es possible, and in the afternoon, after some shelling, the Amba of Magdala was stormed by the 2d Brigade, the 33d leading the storming party with Sappers. The entrance was difficult, and opposition bravely offered by a few at the first gate, which was closed and blocked behind by stones. An entrance on one side was effected, and at a quarter past four the colours of the 331 were flying in Magdala. King Theodore was found lying dead about 150 yards inside the second g,tte. Several chiefs of note, including the Prime Mimister, Ras Engedda, were killed at the first gate. Our loss only five wounded. 'Thus everything has been brought to a inost perfectly successful issue. The army of the King defeated in the open field on the 10th, all the captives released and safe in our camp during 11th and 12th, and Magdala stormed and captured on the 13th, ending in the death of the King. In two or three days we hope to be on the way back to the coast, when the expe dition will have been brought to a successful con clusion in one season. A letter, dated 11th April, giving details of the operations previous to the release of the captives, has miscarried. THE RELEASE OF THE ABYSSINIAN CAP'FINTES. CAMP UNDER MAGDALA, April 12. Mr. Rassam, Dr. Blane, Lieutenant Prideatat Consul Cameron, Mr. Kerans, Mr. Stern, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal and child, Mr. Flad, and four Ger man gentlemen, came into camp last evening, sent by the King. The four latter, with Mr. Flad, re turned to Magdala this morning for the remainder of the captives, including Mrs. Flad and her children with the other families, and brought the whole of the Europeans into the British camp this afternoon, where they are safe, with the sole exception of Mons. Bardel, who was too ill to come down from the Amba. lIUNGARY. PEsru, May 15 (Evening). The Emperor left yesterday, but is expected back here on the 22d inst. The Hungarian regiments out of Hungary have been ordered to return to their native country, and will replace the German regiments at present here, who return to Austria. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 15 (Evening)• The Committee upon the Budget authorised the Minister of Finance to-day to increase the floating debt by 25 millions of florins, this amount to be repaid by the end of December, 1869, out of the revenues of the whole Empire, and especially from the produce of the sale of the State domains• BERLIN, May 16. The case of the twenty-two Hanoverians, a gainst whom the charge of high treason is pending, NO B heard yesterday. The examination of those in dieted for having enlisted in the Hanoverian Legion was terminated. The examination of the parties who enlisted recruits will be taken to-day. It is expected that the case will continue for severa l days. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, May 15 (Evening)• In to-day's sitting of the Folkething, a motion brought in by one of the members, that a Parlia' mentary Commission, for general purposes, should be elected, was defeated. The Government ba d previously declared that they would consider th e adoption of this proposal an expression of want of confidence. CLERK OF ASSIZE. The Clerk of the Assize, says Crompton, in bis l "Jurisdiction of Courts," is he that writes t" , ' things judicially done by the justices of assizes il l their circuits. He has to furnish to the judges accounts of fees and fines (55 Geo. 3, c. 50, s• 8) ,: and to make o r d ers o f paymen t s o f ,allowances , persons attending on their recognisances (7 Geo. c. 64, s. 24) ; he is liable to amercement for nee ° in returning the estreats (3 Geo. 1, c. 15, s• 12) i and to fine for falsely recording the appearance 1:),. a juror (6 Geo. 4, c. 50, s. 40) ; he is lia ble to a penalty for concealing any indictnan recognisance, fine, or forfeiture (22 and Car. 2, c. 22, s. 9) ; he has to make returns of offences (55 Geo. 3, c. 49, s. 1), and also of PeS sons outlawed, attainted, or convicted (34 ancl e 3 f Hen. 8, c. 14, s. 2). He is clerk of the Crown I° , the respective counties included in his circuit ;.i: (with others) associated to the Judge in conu ls , sions of assize ; and is, by letters patent, c0131313ti0 tuted a justice of gaol delivery ; he is als o t keeper of all the records relating to the criwlva proceedings of the circuit. lie cannot act as colP sel to any person on his circuit (33 Hen. 8, C. s. 6). This is the office to which Lord Chief Dustier Bovill has appointed his son, who was last 313-6 a cavalry officer, and who now, we believe, peen student in the inns of court. It has iio o objected that either this young gentleman 131 , - , 0 be unfit for the office, or the salary must b e r , high, considering the duties which have to b e fi e , formed. As a fact, we believe the duties are e- t be rally performed by the clerk of arraigns, anu,",.];. office thus becomes virtually a sinecure, the c'eti-e of assize only showing himself once or twice 01-1. to circuit. He is, however, debarred from prant l3l ,f on the circuit, and is liable to penalties in ells the neglect. Thus it would appear that, although be duties of the office are light, and such as 111 be3Y, of discharged by one having little or no knowleu-iog law, yet it is one of dignity and antiquity , a s tt o associated with the office of judge, and to a °riles° extent it debars the holder from prac tice. t grounds £l,OOO a year does not seem a dispropor tionate remuneration.—Law Times. ------ MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—At an enormous 011t1a ip Msdatuo Tussaud has now on view, a t her exhihitioo to Baker-street, the most beautiful as well as elegant,ll. magnificent court dresses that we have e ver before b°'-,,,0 They R ere manufactured and selected fr om the first hoef4 in Paris, and unquestionably far surpass oven those were exhibited in the great Paris rainbitioa iteell* th 8 13 ' tte, ..,e / ... 41t re , Au° br;