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Ote AV' t...,:i 5 ._, _,,,„4,s LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1868. The intelligence so eagerly looked for from Washington was received in London yesterday morning with relief and satisfaction by all interested in the extraordinary trial going on in the American capital. The Senate Court on Saturday voted on the last article of the Impeachment charges and re fused to convict the PRESIDENT. The numerical majority was, as a matter of course, on the side of the " Yeas," who mustered thirty-five ; but a majority of two-thirds is neeesstry, according to the Senate laws to pass the article, and, happily for the public interests, the "Nays" were nineteen. It would thus have required not 35, but 57 yeas to carry the conviction, and thus the matter was conclusively settled in favour of Mr. JOHNSON. What the further course of the Senate is to be is not very clear. As we have said the vote of Satur day was only taken on the eleventh and last article of Impeachment, and immediately after the Court was adjourned for ten days without voting upon any other article. Whether this particular point was selected as a test of the respective forces, whether it was chosen because it was considered the most important, whether we are to accept the decision as final, or whether the rest of the battle remains to be fought, is as yet uncertain. It is quite clear, however, that the PRESIDENT has won the day. The nineteen who have supported him on this first trial of strength will no doubt remain staunch to his cause, and even should there be two or three defalcations, the mi nority would still be strong enough to hold the ground it has gained. But in fact this eleventh article contains the whole gist of the charges against the PRESIDENT. It charged him with having denied in a public speech that the Thirty-ninth Congress was authorised to exercise legislative power ; with denying that the legislation of the said Congress was valid or obligatory upon him ; with seeking to prevent the (execution of the Tenure -of - Office Act by illegally at tempting to prevent Mr. STANTON from resum ing the functions of Secretary of War, and further with having contrived to hinder the execution of the Reconstruction Act, and of the Act which pro vides that all military orders shall be issued through the general of the army. It will be seen, therefore, that this Article includes the charges of denying the legality of the existing Congress, of excessive as surgption of personal power, of removing STANTON, of disputing with GRANT, and of making incendiary speeches in the north-west tour. Having refused to convict the PRESIDENT upon the whole of these charges, it is not easy to see on what ground the Managers can hope for a conviction. The Tenure-of-Office Bill has been the chief subject of the counsel for the prosecution. The removal of STANTON was the occasion of an open rupture between the PRESIDENT and the Senate itself, which reinstated the Secretary at the War-office. If the Managers have failed to obtain I a conviction on this ground, it is not likely, there fore, that they could carry any other Article, or, if they did, that the verdict would be of any conse- , quence. The Senate Court has affirmed, by the direct failure of this Article,_that the PRESIDENT has not exceeded his lawful and constitutional powers, that he has not shows wilful disrespect to the national Legislature, or endeavoured to impede the course of public business. Having done this it is not unreasonable to hope that the matter may be considered virtually settled, and that the strenuous exertions of the Managers of the trial may prove to have been fruitless. Looked at in the abstract the acquittal of the PRESIDENT is even more important than in its parti cular and immediate effects. The injury which his conviction and deposition would inflict on the cause of American liberty, and indeed of free government throughout the world, is incalculable. Whatever English partisans of a particular party may choose to maintain or to believe, it is no secret, in America at least, that the verdict would have been obtained by the most unscrupulous pressure. All through the trial there has been manifest anxiety to suppress any evidence favourable to the accused, to keep back witnesses who were likely to tell too much, to exaggerate every charge against him. It was with the greatest difficulty, and only by the exer cise of considerable firmness, that Chief Justice CHASE was able to secure some of the decorum and impartiality belonging to a high civil tribunal ; and it was openly acknowledged that by so doing he gave dire offence to the members of his own party. Every nerve was strained, every device was attempted, every influence brought to bear to secure the votes of a sufficient majority. The New York press thundered anathemas day after day against the recreant Republicans, who dared to doubt the PRESIDENT'S guilt. Nay, as time went on and conviction became more uncertain, even darker means were resorted to, and threaten ing letters were sent to hesitating Senators. It is to the honour of the American Senate that, con stituted as it is, a body of its members should have been found resolute and independent enough to resist both threats and bribes. The Anglo-Saxon is no coward, and the Sena tors who dared the whole fury of a party which has preyed itself reckless and unscrupulous to an unparalleled degree showed that they were true to the instincts of their race. Had such a vote been carried by such means, had the highest officer in a free country been disgraced from his position for the gratification of mean and selfish party ambition, the result would have been politically unfortunate for Mr. JOHNSON, but it would have been morally a thousand times more disastrous for the great American people, and deplorable in its effects upon the struggling nations who look across the Atlantic for support, encouragement, and example. By this time we have reason to believe that those who were inclined to doubt the wisdom of the course pursued by Mr. EYRE during the insur rection at Jamaica are heartily tired of the Jamaica Committee, and feel great indignation at its per sistent malignity. It seems as if Mr. MILL and those who act with him could not, or would not, learn discretion, but at any rate it is certain that they will find out their ends in time by the estima tion in which they are held. If there is one thing more inimical than other to the English public it is the absence of fair play, and who can say that the mode of prosecution adopted by the Jamaica Com mittee against ex• Governor EYRE has been at all THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1868. fair ? Again and again he has been subjected to annoyance and been made the object of persecution on various grounds. They now charge him with misdemeanour, and accordingly Mr. VAUGHAN, at Bow-street, is hearing the proceedings. It is said by those who prefer the indictment that they are only desirous to bring it forward, that they do so on technical grounds ; but really we think that the public can hardly credit this, and even if the Committee really think so, they are mistaken in their idea, because their prosecution is more than technical, and must leave effects of a serious kind upon the accused if found guilty when the verdict is pronounced. Perhaps we shall arrive at a more definite notion of the real objects the Committee have in view if we read a letter Mr. BUXTON writes, in which he says that Mr. EYRE should not be allowed to escape the due punishment belonging to the " awful cruelties" committed with his sanc tion in Jamaica. What becomes of the laboured excuse of the prosecution that to obtain a correct interpretation of the law is all that they desire ? We feel little or no doubt as to the acquittal of Mr. EYRE ; but still how unfair it is that he should be put to all this expense and trouble in order to gratify the devices of those who are acting contrary to the feeling of the country, and displaying a spirit of rancour happily rare among English poli ticians. Not to know when to leave off is always a misfortune, but in this instance it is indeed deplorable, and the Jamaica Committee will one day regret most bitterly that they set no bounds to the course they marked out to themselves, and that they did not follow wiser counsel than that of their owu prejudices. The spectacle they are now exhibiting to the world is a sad proof of the mistakes the all-wise may make, and the harsh course of action those may follow who set out to act on liberal prin ciples in the fullest acceptation of the term. We feel convinced that surprise and indignation will contend for the mastery in the minds of those who dwell upon this affair, and that the general opinion of the public will be that the Jamaica Committee deserve the strongest censure ; and this will be shared by those who do not approve wholly of the line of action taken in Jamaica, but the case has now got beyond the first limits, and must therefore be looked upon differently. The accounts that have reached us of the Abys sinian Expedition are most exciting and interesting, and the public will pursue the details with the greatest eagerness. It is long indeed since our forces met with so extraordinary a success, and, for many reasons, there is much to rejoice at in the triumph won at Magdala. First and foremost must rank the liberation of the captives, and their restoration to their home and country, which at one time seemed impossible, and only to be accomplished by means little short of a miracle. Besides this, it is of con sequence that our prestige should be kept up in those distant lands, where we can never effect our purpose or protect our fellow-countrymen except by influence. Mere numbers will not do, and there is so much to contend against with respect to climate, so that a considerable time always elapses before our expedition can be fitted out. It is no exaggeration to say that the effect of the Magdala affair will be of vast significance, and the mere fact that the prisoners have been rescued do more to support our authority and secure respectfor our friends than volumes of despatches, and the most grandiloquent messages could ever ac complish. The particulars that have just come to hand show that the task was not an easy one which our bravo soldiers performed, and also that the greatest credit belongs to General NAPIER for the masterly manner in which he performed his work of direction and supervision. It was not without some delay that the prisoners' safety was secured, and THEODORE was evidently unwilling to relinquish his hold upon them ; but Sir ROBERT NAPIER wisely resolved to lose not an instant in the important matter, and as soon as there was the slightest chance of compliance he preferred his re quest. A long, anxious day was spent in parleying, which, with every desire to sympathise, we in this country can hardly either enter into fully or appre ciate entirely. The feeling that they were within grasp, as it were, of those so long mourned over as lost, the conviction that, after all, they might even then be sacrificed, must have been overwhelmin g , and yet it could not be possible for Sir R. NAPIER to give in to THEODORE'S terms hastily, because he had the honour of the nation he represented to consider. At last the guard gave in, and by nightfall all the prisoners were surrendered unconditionally, and some of the other Europeans were safely lodged in the Eng lish camp. A stirring scene was that which took place under the walls of Magdala, and the Abys sinians showed far more spirit than it was believed possible for them to evince. The effect produced upon the dead-beaten men of the fourth by the sound of the Abyssinian gun which announced the combat to have begun was magical. Before that exciting sound was heard they had been falling out of the ranks from sheer fatigue, and imploring all passers-by for a drop of water; but all was changed when the gun was beard. "In five minutes they were to the front, dressing up, and hurrying right past the Belochees, not that the Belochees were a whit the less eager, but they had not the deadly SNIDER to recommend them, and in a very few minutes more, though to anxious eye alone it may have appeared a longer time, they came from the hollow into which they had disappeared, and leaving the hill, they began steadily to mount the stage, which the enemy had at first so dauntlessly made their own, and to take it from them, inch by inch." After the SNIDER came into play the Abyssinians had no chance whatever, and the havoc it created among them was fearful. It must be borne in mind that our forces had not to walk over the ground, for the Abyssinians kept up the show of resistance, though their chance was completely gone after the conflict was fairly begun. No one can lament the death of THEODORE, for his ferocity was dreadfal, and our forces discovered a large heap of dead bodies. They were those of some unfortu nate witnesses which the tyrant wished to have out of the way. It is in some sort a satisfaction to learn that after the departure of our forces this merciless man can no more em ploy his ingenuity in torturing and destroying the unfortunate beings who were in his power. The dead body of 'THEODORE was found also on the hill, and it remains doubtful whether he killed him self or met with his fate in battle. Magdala has been burnt, and the blackened ruins will long be a warning to the savage and barbarous chiefs who may visit them that the name of Engl tnd is to be treated with respect ; and it is also satisfactory to know that we have done good service to other Europeans who may hereafter visit these wilds by putting down the tyrant with a firm hand, and rescuing the victims of his tyranny. THEODORE was the terror of the whole country, but the knowledge that a stronger even than himself has taken possession will not be without due effect upon many who may imitate his career without, perhaps, equalling his ability. Be this as it may, it can fairly be said that if Eng lande to x b uparencatrreide realised eefdrr from mh m a at thene x t h o p ieg d e h o t ae st h it i o s t tan duty ned osiwha:Ai hasybse -81 n i ° o r a e c appreciated accordingly. THE HANDEL FESTIVAL At the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Another of these grand memorial celebrations of the genius of Handel, and—through his sublime creations—of the glory of the divine art of music, is now fast approaching. Within less than a month's time we shall be in the midst of it. The forthcoming is the Third of these Great Triennial Festivals. And as the Second surpassed the First, it may be safely enough predicted that the Third will surpass the Second. Blow the trumpets, sound the drums, Briareus-handed Handel comes Musicians have pronounced him THE Maestro, "THE Master of Music," by acclamation—this wonderful George Frederick Handel, German by birth, Eng lish by adoption : born at Ilalle, in Saxony, on the 23d of February, 1684: dead—hia body, that is, dead, not his glorious productions any more than his own immortal spirit—in London on the 14th of April, 1759 : buried soon afterwards, in West minster Abbey, with all befitting pomp and solemnity. It is astonishing to remember, in regard to the mere mechanical labours, to say nothing of the intellectual achielbments, accomplished by Handel within the interval of the span of his existence, that the record of them in Original MSS. extends to as many as Eighty-Iwo Large Folio Volumes! And that among these are numbered as many as Twenty-Three Grand Oratorios, Thirty- Two elaborate Italian Operas, and as many as Eight Volumes of Anthems, Fugues, and other miscellaneous compositions. No wonder that Haydn cried 'out in regard to him, " This man is the Father of us all !" Or that Mozart said of him, " When he chooses be strikes like a thunder bolt !" Or that Meyerbeer pronounced his " Israel in Egypt" supreme and peerless above all other musical masterpieces ! Or that Mendelssohn so honoured and revered his memory that within the last twelve years of his own fore-shortened life he gave to the adornment of Handel's, very much of the flower of his own genius, writing organ parts to the whole of the Oratorios I No wonder that—to crown all, these tokens of homage on the part of the Great Masters towards the Master Genius of Handel—no wonder that even Beethoven exclaimed, when speaking of him, " I would uncover my head, and kneel at his tomb!" Those who have enjoyed the privilege and happiness of attending either of the two preceding Triennial Festivals, at the Crystal Palace—the Festival of 1862 and the Festival of 1865 —will from that cherished remembrance appreciate to the full how absolutely the genius of Handel is entitled to these rare evidences of homage and admiration. They will recognize that in these unstinted worth of praise lavished upon his glorious memory by Musicians themselves of the loftiest genius, by Haydn, by Mozart, by Meyerbeer, by Mendelssohu, by Beethoven, there was no extravagance whatever, there was no opportunity even for hyperbole. To those who have not been present on either of those two memorable occasions, we would say now is their opportunity I An opportunity that, Handel himself never had the rare and priceless good fortune of en- joying. Never did he hear his own marvellous produc- tions as we have hoard them—upon a scale of such colossal magnitude and magnificence. The Man was there—but the Hour during his lifetime had not struck. The world's greatest Orchestra had to be built in the Palace of the English People, before that undreamt-of period arrived. The Hour had come, however, in 1862. It struck again more sonorously in 1865. It is preparing to sound anew a n d y e t more sonorously even than then —when the " Glorious Three Days" of June shall conic once more to allure not the lovers of music in London alone, but through out all England, down to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. As a Record of the Past, no less than as a Programme of the Present, the little violet coloured official pamphlet recently issued in re- ference to The Handel Festival is worthy of perusal and of preservation afterwards. It conveys all the information that could be reasonably wished for in regard to the arrangements, and it is besides that especially deserving of attention as an evidenca of exquisite and often of eloquent appreciation of the giant genius of Handel as manifested through his sublimest productions. One passags at least we cannot here resist the temptation is transcribe, if only in illustration of the literal truth of what we have but just now remarked. It is where—say ing of the effect producel upon the more appre ciative by their attendance upon these Festivals that " the imagination soars far beyond the com poser and his work, the great Miracles of the Exodus standing out in such relief as to present themselves to the sense in the vivid grandeur of actual oc currence"—the writer exclaims with enthusiasm, " Who can have thus -listened to the Hail stone Chorus without almost seeing the 'Fire, Rain, Hail' that 'ran along upon the ground ?' Who is there who has not felt his very hair stand oa end, at that darkness which might be felt?' Who has not fancied a glimpse was opened to him of that Power above, as He spake the word,' thundered out in unison by fifteen hundred tenor and bass voices, rolled throughout the long-drawn nave and aisles of the Crystal Palace? Who has not found his heart's pulsations increase in joyful accord, as again and again, I will sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously,' has resounded from side to side, in that antiphonal majesty, which can only be realised by such music on such a scale, in such an Orchestra?" Yes—those words, those queries, may be taken in a manner literally. Listening to the " Hailstone Chorus," it was literally as if we saw— amidst the choral cries of " Fire, Rsin, Hail"—that they "ran along upon the ground," those lashing, and billowing, and sinuous trails of Hail, and Rain, and Fire ! And so of the rest. It is word-painting and sound painting together. It is the realisation of inspired dreams, and those dreams sublime even to the preternatural. As indicative of the scale upon which everything is done in connection with these unapproachable Musical Celebrations, it is worth mentioning that already they have produced in their receipts, count ing the Festivals of '62 and '65, and two subsi diary ones, more than £lOO,OOO. Besides which, they were brought together upwards of 250,000 persons. Remembering what has been done al ready in connection with these Festivals, remem bering what was accomplished in the instance of the last one, the Festival of 1865, in our own most recent recollection when improvement is now spoken of as in any way possible under the circumstances, it should be under stood at once that reference is made to the shading in rather than to the outlines. The grand, broad, symmetrical outlines are there already. They ad mit, as we conceive, of no reasonable expansion. It is the filling in, we repeat, that alone allows of perfecting. As the official pamphlet itself says, the " New Resources " that are now fast preparing for the coming Festival relate to details rather than to broad principles. The Orchestra, to begin with, what more in rea son could he wanting there? Why, in the mere width, it is double the diameter of the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral! And, whereas the Orchestra of the late Ancient Concerts at Hanover-square had an area of 943 feet, the area of the Crystal Palace Orchestra occupies a space of upwards of 16,000 feet! Then, again, in place of the Velarium of 1859, there was constructed in 1862 that gigantic sounding board, or wooden semicircular ceiling, which is known to be the largest piec3 of carpentery of the kind ever put together. Even that was so far deemed insufficient in 1865 that by " partly filling up with a hard, rever berating material" the side of the grand tran sept and the naves " considerable acoustical additions" were made, and a noticeable improve ment effected. Whatever in the details may, nevertheless, have still been recognized in any par ticular by the more discerning as yet wanting, will now be carried out to the fullest extent, as we are informed in the programme of the arrange ments actually afoot for the forthcoming Festival. Now, as to the purely musical rather than as to the simply mechanical or material preparations making with an eye to the greater effi ciency than ever cf the choral and orchestral armies about to be martialled under the baton of Field-Marshal Costa. There, again, as the nucleus, heart, core of the Festival Orchestra will be, in grander force than ever, the Sacred Harmonic Society, associated with which as an enviable and highly coveted privilege will. be the Sixteen Hun dred Voices of the Exeter Hall amateurs, entitled the Metropolitan Amateur Choral Contingent. Alto gether, there, will be seen once more that stupendous Orchestra of Four Thousand Performers, surely the grandest army of choral harmony the world has ever had the opportunity of witnessing, or rather to which the world has ever had the privilege of hearkening. As to the baud of instrumentalists, again, some idea of its magnitude, of the numerical strength of those instrumentalist; may be afforded by the simple mention of the fact that Two Hun dred and Fifty Music Desks arc there attended by Four Hundred Stringed Instrument Performers —one hundred and fifty of these being players on double basses and violincellos. Given the grandest of Composers to interpret ; given as the arena, the noblest and the most Fairylike Palace in the world ; given the largest Orchestra ever constructed, an orchestra comprising within its vast cir cumference 400 stringed instruments, to gether with proportionate numbers of drums, trumpets, oboes, picollos, hautboys, clarionets, cornets-a-piston, French horns, cymbals, triangles, serpents, opliecleides, flutes, harps, trombones, all congregated about the central glory of the whole—the Grand Organ—with its triple key board, its broad range of sonorous pedals, its marvellous variety of stops, each surging at will from the treble to the diapason ; given, with all these " means and appliances to boot," a com pact mass of skilled vocalists, sopranos, con traltos, tenors, baritones, basses, to the number altogether, there, in rank and file,of 4,000 within that gigantic area ; given all these as the " new re sources" brought for the first time on record, within reach of art at this particular and crowning epoch in its history--there, too, is, happily, the Greatest of all Conductors to wield them by the " powerful deter mination," as the official programme terms it, of his peerless baton. As Mr. Ella has admirably remarked in his &cord of the Musical Union—" Whatever can be accomplished to satisfy the connoisseur, i❑ the organisation, discipline, and control of the musical forces assembled at this Festival, in the proper balance of voices and instruments, judicious use of the monster organ, important distri bution of brass instruments to assist accent, the the precision of tempi, and intelligible motion of the baton, the one directing mind of Costa will not fail to achieve." The same writer wittily applying to Michael Costa the familiar words— "Cella sedet bolus arce Sceptra tenens, mollitquo animos, et temperat ira." Remembering past achievements in connection with these Triennial Handel Festivals—remembering that the same great artistes as heretofore will still be there as the soloists, that the tenor, for example, will still be no other than Sims Reeves, and that the bass will still be no other than Santley—remembering that Costa will again hold the wand of office, a wand in its potency as marvellous as that of Pros pero—that the First Day, Monday, 15th proxim', will be again allotted to the Messiah, the Second Day, Wednesday, the 17th prox. to the wonder fully varied Selections, and the Third and Last Day, Friday, the 19th proximo, to the subliruest of all the Oratorios, the " Israel in Egypt" —we can only look forward with what the cynic once defined as "a lively sense of favours to come," namely a profound feeling of gratitude—gratitude for the delight the high intellectual, and, we would even say, spiritual delight now in active prepara tion. Attendance at these Festivals is a privilege, for the affording all of us the opportunity of which the world is—it would be difficult to say how largely— indebted to the Crystal Palace Company at Syden ham. LITE RATURE. Country Coteries. A Novel. By Lady Chatterton. Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is just the book for the circulating libralies. It is pleasantly written, contains many interesting characters and amusing adventures, and is suffi ciently exciting to afford the general novel reader a fair share of entertainment. The name " Country Coteries" reveals one great aim which the authoress of this novel has had in view in its composition. Lady Chatterton very wisely objects to that spirit of exclusiveness which so often prevails in a coun try neighbourhood, and which often renders the inhabitants olsoine great house practically like the &vixens of the enchanted castle in the Pantomime —" a thousand miles from every where !" The fair Chatelaine, whose exclusive predilec tions work so much mischief to herself, and to all connected with her, carries out her determi nation with a spirit and perseverance worthy of a better cause, and refuses to listen to the entreaties of her amiable young daughter or her worldly.- wise mamma. How this fine lady discovers at the close of her cou n t r y care er that she h as care fully avoided all those persons whose acquaintance it would have been for her best interests to cultivate, we will leave the readers of " Country Coteries " to as certain. The lesson may possibly be of service to some inquirers, and in any case a perusal of these momentous records will afford amusement to many readers. Charlie Villars at College. By G. L. Tottenham, Trio. Coll. Two vols. llurst and Blackett. This is a genuine picture of college life that will be recognised and appreciated by all true sons of alma mater. The author is evidently a disciple of the Pre-Raphaelite school—he does not seek t o idealise his heroes, or to render his descriptions poetical and his scenes picturesque; his aim has been to hold " a mirror up to nature," and to describe men and manners as he has found them, even if occasionally it might prove, as it does some times in these volumes, that neither the men nor the manners were worth the trouble so bestowed upon them. From the arrival of the down-train at the Cambridge platform, on the, to him, all important occasion, when young Charlie Villars enters the University, one of a group of Freshmen, until the close as his academic career every varied phase of college life is very naturally and very vividly described to us. We take part in boat races, horse races, pic-nic parties, and every species of amusement ; we make acquaintance with under-graduates of every type and temperament, reading men, boating men, fast men, idle men, and men whose acquaintance is not worth the trouble of cultivating. Charlie Villars himself is a very delightful hero, and some of his familiar friends become friends of the reader also before the close of their varied adventures. Mr. Tottenham has eminently well succeeded in the object with which he undertook this work, which was not to point a moral or adorn a tale, but to afford an accurate and, consequently, au interesting picture of actual life at Cambridge. The Corset and the Crinoline. Ward, Lock, and Tyler. This is an elegant little volume for the draWing. room table, embellished with more than fifty capital illustrations, representing some among the innumerable vagaries of fashion in ancient and modern times. The various mutations of the Corset and, the Crinoline, to say nothing of tho Chignon, as they were and as they are, at one time compressed into almost impossible dimensions, at another expanding with voluminous superfluity, are more than sufficient to bewilder all beholders. To turn over the pages of this very entertaining little volume, where the stately lady of ancient days— " Iu tea-cup times of hoop and hood And. when the patch was worn, appears in contrast to her fair sisters, wish the narrow skirts and sweeping trains of now-a-days, where the bugle-bedecked beauty of the savage squaw is depicted side by side with the exquisite favourite of artificial life—the turning over these pages may prove, according to the mood of the beholder, as good as a sermon or as severe as a. satire. As page after page reveals fashion after fashion, we recognise how the one only identical characteristic of one and all is its " passing away." One and all pass away, every fashion, save one " the old, old fashion," as the historian of little Paul Dombey so exquisitely reminds us, " The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old faelUou—Death." CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. SUNDAY, May 17. The Paris journals are now beginning to take notice of the extraordinary speech of General Failly, which I sent to you several days ago. The semi-official Patrie has en deavoured to explain away the speech, and argues that in declaring the camp was no pleasure ground, and that as war was possible the soldiers must perfect them selves in their acquaintance with the use of the Chassepot, the General meant nothing in particu lar, but dealt only in vague generalities. But this explanation does not go down at all. It is pointed out that the General is an intimate confidant of the Emperor, and that this speech, taken in connection with the no-mani festo in behalf of peace at Orleans, has a very unfavourable aspect. The Moniteur de l' Armee mentions that the War Office is busily engaged in organising the cadres for the Garde Mobile. In this last fact, taken by itself, there is no particular significance ; but taking it in connection with others, it is clear that the Emperor has no thought of suspending his preparations for war. I have already referred to the rumour that additional French-troops were about to be sent to Roman territory, and mentioned that it was not generally credited. The France now denies it, and says that if fresh troops are sent to Rome they will merely replace those who are relieved. Thereupon the Temps somewhat hyper critically remarks that it thought all our troops were at Civita Vecchia, and that therefore if any are sent to Rome this is a fresh development of the occupation. Without troubling to split hairs, however, I may mention that letters from Rome tell me that the Government fully counts upon a prolonged French occu pation, and sees with satisfaction the estrangement be tween France and Italy. Here the rapprochement between Italy and Prussia and the coolness between Italy and Aus tria are matters of comment, and it is considered that if a war should break out it would be found that France and Austria would be on one side, Prussia and Italy on the other. Still speaking of foreign politics, I may men tion that the quarrel between Austria and Roumania seems to be getting more serious, and that our journals are beginning to speak out somewhat strongly upon the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of London so far as the destruction of the fortifications of Luxemburg is concerned. Even Prussian journals admit that the King of Holland has done really nothing, and that to all intents and purposes Luxemburg is .just as strong as it was this time last year, when it seemed likely to become the bone of contention for all the dogs of war. Prince Napoleon has returned to Pads from his by no means pleasant trip to Italy. He is now going to set forth on another of those roving missions which are unofficial, and may therefore be disavowed if they fail, but which, not the less, have a political object. Prince Czartoryski has thought it necessary to deny the rumour of his having gone to Galicia in order to meet Prince Napoleon there. The fact is, the distinguished Pole is still in Paris, and no doubt he can see his Imperial High ness here if he has anything to say to him. The Opposition mean to make another attempt to obtain a reduction of the Military Budget. They have given notice that they will move as an amendment to the Budget of the Minister of War that the six great military commands created by the Imperial decision of the 7th of August, 1859, be suppressed from January 1, 1869. It is signed by Jules Simon, Glais-Bizoin, Gamier-Page s , Cannot, Dorian, Magnin, Bethmont, Pelletan, Picard, Jules Favre, H6non, &c. Of course they have no idea of carrying it, but the discussion will probably lead to some important ministerial statement respecting the Intentions of France. Another motion of which notice has been given is to deprive prefects and sub-prefects of the power of opening and detaining closed letters in the post office. The Siccie says that although the Marquis de Lavalette is not in the Ministry he appears to play a very important part in the Government. He is very much listened to, and very often consulted. He is credited with having defeated the last manceuvre of M. Pinard, and it is sup posed that this Minister will not long continue to hold the portfolio of the Interior, but will be appointed to a high post in the magistracy. On the other hand, it is mentioned that M. de Saint Paul, whom M. Pinard endeavoured to dismiss, is going to give a grand dinner to morrow to the chief officials of the Home Department, at which M. Pinard will assist ; and as men who have quarrelled don't poison one another at banquets now, it is supposed that this entertainment is to let the world know that the disputants have made up their quarrel. The Governor or Algeria and the Archbishop of Algiers have certainly not made up theirs. It is a very bitter one. Marshal Niel, Minister of War, has sided with the Governor, as was natural ; but the semi-official Patric sides with the Archbishop. It seems impossible that the Governor and the Archbishop can henceforth work toge ther, and it is rumoured that the Government has deter mined to transport Monsignor Lavigerie to another see. The Ministerial journals compliment M. Emile 011ivier upon his speech in behalf of free trade, though he did say some rather sharp things about the foreign policy of the Government. It is the cue of those journals to flatter M. 011ivier, who has not yet abandoned the idea that he is to be the Mirabeau of the Bonaparte dynasty. M. Emile Girardin has made a speech in the great Pro tection debate, but, so absurd is the press law, he cannot publish a report of it in his own paper, the Liberte, until the official shorthand writer has sent him the efficial report. The new marriage law continues to give rise to much excitement in Austria. The clergy most strongly oppose it. The Bishop of Linz has written to the Go"ernor of Upper Austria a letter, in which he says : " I shall always obey and enforce, on the part of those under my orders, obedience to the laws of the country so long as these are not contrary to the divine commands ; but whenever such a contradiction should unfortunately arise, I can only be guided by the apostclic law, to which I must conform my actions as well as the exercise of my influence over the flock entrusted to me. My obedience is due first to God, and not to the laws of man." The bishop goes on to say that the law on marriage and the law on schools are con trary to the test by which he tries all laws, their coniformity to the Catholic Church ; and that the Church is therefore " bound to oppose them by every means not morally wron g of which she can dispose." A certain amount of coldness has sprung up between Austria and Italy on account of the absence of the Arch duke Lewis Victor from Prince Humbert's marriage. In consequence of this the Marquis Pepoli, who had been appointed Ambassador to the Court of Vienna, has not yet set out. The murmur of incredulity with which Serjeant Armstrong's motion was received in the House of Com mons, the disclaimer of the Opposition leaders of all previous knowledge of it, and the prompt repudiation of all the Liberal journals of influence, have shorn the reso lution of all interest whatever. There is a strong feeling that such a move, taken as it was without Mr. Gladstone's knowledge, should be rebuked in a way which would prevent its being attempted again. The member for Sligo is pre,bably unknown, even by appearance, to two-thirds of the House of Commons, and those who are acquainted with his manners and tone are fully conscious of the singular un fitness of such a man to occupy the post of leader of a great and enlightened party. Though possessing a certain blunt humour, an audible voice, and an unbounded air of confi dence, the learned serjeant is emphatically not the style of man whom the scrupulous and perhaps somewhat fas tidious section of the Liberal. party would listen to with patience as their self-appointed chief, or whom under any circumstances they could be induced to follow. If thestates man who has led them so triumphantly this session does not think the time has arrived for moving a vote of want of confidence, or for delegating that ticklish and responsible duty to one of his able lieutenants, the thing ought not to be mooted. It was a very different case in 1855, when, on the receipt of the news of the disasters in the camp before Sebastopol, Mr. Roebuck gave notice of the memorable resolution which led to the break-up of the Coalition Ministry. The mover was a man of acknowledged stand ing and talent ; the case was one of admitted urgency; the Liberal minority below the gangway were in open revolt ; and it was in avowed concert with the Tory Opposition that they resolved to seek the deliverance of the Crimean army at the cost of overthrowing the Administration. _ _ _ ....... The Calvinistic Methodists of three Welsh counties lately resolved that a petition to the House of Commons should be adopted, praying for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and the document was forwarded to Mr. Gladstone for presentation. This was done, but as no reply arrived, the secretary of the Presbytery wrote to the right hon. gentleman telling him that he had been very remiss in not having acknowledged the receipt of the petition. This elicited reply from Mr. Gladstone, in which he says: " I doubt whether a clay has passed for many weeks on which I have not received, besides many petitions of a like character, accounts of public meetings or resolutions passed by important bodies having the same object. I am truly sorry to have Leen linable to acknowledge the letter to which you refer, but in a case like this, where the mind and feeling of the country have been deeply stirred, I must draw largely upon the indulgence of many persons and assemblages of persons, who have sent me, in various forms, expressions of their concurrence, which, if it.had been possible, I would gratefully have acknowledged. But I could not and cannot do this without neglectinemy main duty, which is an incessant attention to the means of prosecuting the great cause in Parliament." It seems scarcely reasonable to expect a great party leader t. write a letter of acknowledgment to every person from whom he may receive a petition for presentation to the n , ,?:,tH 94 _c9alwoxLs, A! fir' tz),41 4, . '' 1 • FIEF MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, May 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove in Ihe grounds yesterday afternoon. Prince Leopold went out driving. Her Majesty, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Bea trice, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. LATEST INTELL MENCk. (REITITR'S TY.LEGRAMS.) JAPAN. PAP,IS, May 18. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol lowing news from Japan, under date of March 26 : Every satisfaction demanded fur the massacre of the French sailors at Osaka has been given. Tho demands made by the French Minister were the condemnation to death of 20 officers, non-commis sioned officers, and privates who had ordered or executed the massacre, the payment of an indemnity of 150,000 piastres to the families of the victims, and the presentation of apologies by the representa tives of the Mikado and Prince Tosa. Eleven of the culprits were executed ou the 16th March. Captain Dupetit Thouars then stopped the execution of the nine others, declaring that suffi cient satisfaction had been given. The French Minister has gone to Kioto by invi tation, where he was received by the Mikado. The English Minister accompanied him. ITALY. GENOA, May 17 (Evening.) A splendid nautical fete and regatta were held here this evening. The King and the Royal Family proceeded round the post in a State Gallery, and were enthusiastically cheered. There were magnificent fireworks, followed by a grand illumination. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, 17th May. The Ceylon left at 9 a.m. to-day for Southau* - tou, where she may be expected about the 22d inst• SUEZ, May 18. The Delhi for Bombay, and the Simla for Cal cutta, left Suez at 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. yesterday re spectively. Clearing off all cargo. FRANCE. PARIS, May 18. The returns of the voting in the Department of the Ariege for a deputy to the Legislative Body have been received from all excepting 23 Communes. According to these returns out of 37,857 registered electors, 26,794 voted. Of this number 16,810 recorded their votes in favaur of M. Denat, the Government candidate ; and 6,560 for M. Anglade, the Opposition candidate. BOURSE, May 17.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 41 q Cent. pe End of month... —•— Ital'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 69 45 Mexican Loan ... 20 5 0 Credit Mobilier - Spanish Threes 371 Home Debt Deferred ...... Cash Orleans ... 870 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern—. 577- 7k Western Eastern _ . End of month... 280 Credit Foncier ...1470 Ead of month... RAILWAYS. 431 6671 380 70} Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spaiu Saragossa Roman POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAl'. MA.RLBOROUGH-STREET. A FATHER AND SON CHARGED WITH ROBBERY AND RECEIVING.--Thomas Manton, a young man in the employ of Mr. Tubbs, brushmaker, of No. 14 Berwick-street, St. James's, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing some brushes, the property of his employer ; and Thomas Manton, his father , a greengrocer, Stanley Park-row, Fulham, Iva ° charged with receiving the same with a g uilty knowledge. Mr. Frogett, of Argyll-street, appeared for tha prosecution. Police-constable W. Cane, 35 C, said that on Saturday afternoon he saw the younger prisone r leave his employer's shop and join the elder priso ner, and give him some brushes. He followed the elder prisoner, and asked him what he had got under his arm, and he said some brushes, and that his son had given them to him, and that his soli worked at Mr. Tubbs' in Berwick-street. He told the prisoner that he should take him into custody, and he did so, and handed him over to another officer, and afterwards went to Air' Tubbs, and saw the younger prisoner, and on asking him if he knew about the brushes he said he did lin t ' He told him that he had seen him give the brush e° to a person he believed to be his father, and the n took him to the station. He afterwards went to the elder prisoner's house, Stanley Park-row, rill ham, and, in company with Mr. Tubbs, found fiv e chamois skins, seven sponges, thirteen spok e brushes, and other articles, all of which he produce d ? and which were identified by Mr. Tubbs. Mr. Tubbs, brush manufacturer, of Berwick" street, identified all the articles produced as lii property. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner, and refuse d an application for bail, Mr. Frogett remarking that a number of duplicates relating to brushes had bee n found in the prisoner's possession. THALIIES. A DANGEROUS FELLOW.—Thomas Allpricel labourer of drunken and dissipated manners ,111 , appearance, was charged before Mr. Benson with assaulting John Mayes, a boy. The complainant is a working blacksmith , 42, Edward-street, Stepney. On Saturday nig h , the prisoner was intoxicated and miscondu cti°l ; himself in Catherine-street, Limehouse. A nu rche of urchins were bantering him, hooting and yelli l3g ; and also laughing at his antics. The complainall, who was passing, took no part in this unseat :l i; disturbance, but as he happened to be unfortun att3 passing, the prisoner fixed upon him, the only in • r cent person, and after belabouring him with a 1 31 1 3 1 of boots belonging to his grandmother, which t 0 _ boy was carrying, he threw him down three Woe; and severely injured him. The boy's bead 03 cut. ta The Prisoner—The boys were throwing stone 9 me, and I only shook him. The complainant—He took me by the hair of 1)31 head and threw me down. Sarah Lock, of No. 77, Catherine-street, 13: looking out of window, and sav the prison er sei° the boy and throw him down three times. Sb° r 3; claimed, " You brute, to serve poor boy ill t o manner." Mr. Benson said the prisoner wis a drunken Il ee dangerous fellow, who made hiuself a oni s9n f and a danger in the public streets, Ind the 13 0 1 ° o f the neighbourhood expressed their sentireents.o his disgraceful conduct, as boys generally do/ 00 ,, very rough manner. He fined the arisoiler ot , and iu default of payment ten days U:1100 111° • (1 , cli ef The annual regimental dinner of the k , r ena vil io's Guards is appointed for the 2d of June„t t Rooms. th, 4 41) eti g igf ° Pe D 3 PE lsr ~e, 8. (J 1 ki!l b M' k ° , 4 l 4,,°: ii I) I 0