The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-16 00:00:00

apIRIT:OF THE r,IIALIO IOVRNALS, The common belief that murder is on le increase is not confirmed by statistics, but there are times when it is favoured 1:1 3 7 an inexplicable concurrehce of atrocious cr im es . The Spring Assizes of the present year h4ve disclosed a blacker calendar than the Times remembers for Some years pas to,nd our owncircuit reports for the 12th and 13th March alone contain the account of no less than four trials for 'murder. One of these cases belongs to what must, we fear, be-palled the ordinary type of murder, committed by a lover in aieviolent paroxysm of jealousy. Each of the other three, however, exhibits some remarkable features which appear to call for special attention. Two resulted in conviction, one in acquittal ; but the undisputed facts of this last case (which had been known as " the Bromley murder ") were shocking enough without the inferences drawn by the prosecution. The other two are the notorious " TodmOiden murder," the author of which was taken red-handed, and confessed his guilt, and the " Romney murder," which was committed by Mrs. Kidder on the child, and which contrasts strangely with the former in all its external incidents. However widely these cases may differ in their superficial features, there is a certain deeper resemblance between them which it may be instructive to notice. They are all characterised, not excluding the Bromley case, by a disparity between the motive and the crime , which is nothing less than portentous. The man who could resolve to immolate a whole household because he was not allowed to keep company there with his sweet heart, the woman who could drown a harmless child because it was not her own, and the two men who at least thrust out a poor homeless creature to perish of cold pn a rough winter's night because she could not pay for a lodging, must have been equally destitute, we might be tempted to say, of any human feeling. ,And yet the evidence does not altogether justify such a Conclusion. The first, in particular, though he carried out hi 4 execrable design with relentless ferocity, and silenced every prayer for mercy with the words, " Where's my Sarah ?" appears to have been capable of sincere affection, and might possibly have lived to make a kind husband, if these fiendish passions had not been kindled within him. The one reflection which is forced upon us by such revela tions as these is that murder is never likely to be extin guished by any future progress, whether of law or educa tion. Christianity and civilisation have done much to banish or check some other crimes, but the spirit of murder remains unsubdued. Murders, indeed, are seldom com mitted by professional criminals, and seem to spring from a moral source which no preventive agency has yet suc ceeded in reaching. The Post comments on the " strange " bill introduced into the French Chamber for the regulation of public meet ings. Having dealt with the Press, the Corps Ldglislatif proceeds to make a law limiting the right of public meet ings. The Press Bill is extraordinary enough, and has taken from many papers the most interesting part or their contents ; but the meetings bill is still. There are only two ways of expressing one's opinion—by writing and speaking. The latter may be carried on by a candi date for the Corps L4gislatif, but under the surveillance of the police. The police commissary will, in fact, take the chair, and when he calls the speaker to order, the latter, if not in his own interest, at least in that of his seven sponsors, is found to comply, and turn the attention of his hearers to a less exciting topic. The police are prover bially zealous, and French commissaries of police are espe daily so, and it is therefore not unfair to assume that into whatever errors those who are called upon to temper the warmth of parliamentary candidates may fall, they will not be attributable to want of zeal. At any moment the prefect of the department or the mayor can dissolve the meeting. Such is the unsolicited boon which the Frencb Government are about to confer on the French people, That it was unsolicited we can really believe ; that it should be unappreciated is equally possible. The notion of addressing future constituents under such conditions must seem to us indescribably funny ; but the existing political system in France, under which the sovereign is the Government, renders the proposed course of procedure at least intelligible. The Daily News points out that during the last twenty years continental Governments have borrowed money to amounts out of all proportion to their resources, and for purposes and objects which it is notorious have not contri buted to the good of the nation, and which have since been renounced. We have been so foolish as to lend, money to help Governments to keep up large armies and hostile tariffs, depriving their people at once of the power and the means of purchasing of us. This, however, is not so much a consideration for individual lenders as for Governments. What is now to be remarked is that the Governments who have been so recklessly borrowing are at length compelled to face their difficulties. A country that borrows money in some, though undue, propor tion to its means, has it in its power to correct its mistakes at ite own expense. What other Governments can do we are likely soon to see. It would be satisfactory to know that they were in all cases about to meet the exigency by economy and a conscientious rigour of taxa tion. It is said that Russia, for instance, always pays its dividends regularly; sa did the Brighton Railway until its rosources came to an end. And it is exactly to this point that the lender must look, even at the cost of some trouble, if he would have the satisfaction of having acted prudently. The good intentions of weak Governments are worthless : every spendthrift means to pay some day in full with interest. The punctuality of reckless Governments is of no value as a pledge of the future ; their collapse is only a question of years. Resources—not undeveloped resources, which are practically non-existent—•bout proximate and effective resources, sufficient for the burden they have to • bear, should stand first in the consideration of the foreign lender. They may not form an absolute guarantee, but they are the sine qua non of the lender who has not the motive of patriotism. There is a popular song which, in language mor( emphatic than elegant, invokes Divine displeasure upon those " who rob a poor man of his beer." Thirsty souls who cheer this refrain to the very echo, have probably perused with peculiar satisfaction the report of some recen proceedings at Bow-street against an offender who comes, says the Herald, if not within the leWr, at least Within the spirit, of the malediction. Mr. C. C. B. Williams, of Kingsland, was summoned for selling to a publican a quart. tity of saccharine matter, to be used as a substitute for malt. The defendant was a brewer, who appears to have been too ambitious. Not content with the manufacture of malt and hops into the liquor which the London public loves, he has made two decoctions, called "maltheine " and " hydromel," which appear to be valued chiefly because they can be passed off for what they are not. But Mr. Williams has been well punished. The magis trate, deeming that maltheine and hydromel were only fine names for adulterative compounds, inflicted the penalty of £5OO ; thus, we should imagine, completely spoiling the look of that part of Mr. Williams's balance sheet -n which the profit and loss of the maltheine and hydromel trade are entered. Our contemporary trusts that the infliction of this heavy penalty will surflee to send such stuff, for a time at least, out of the market, and will satisfy brewers that they will do best by keeping to their legitimate trade. Coventry has avenged Devonport. Mr. Busfiela Verrand, who was deprived of his hardly-won seat for the latter on the ground of certain technical ladles, has re turned the compliment by ousting his successful rival at the last election for Coventry. The select committee which was appointed to try the petition against the return of Mr. Mather Jackson has concluded its labours by declaring that the sitting member was guilty of bribery by his agents ; that he was not duly elected, and that tht election is therefore void. If the Premier's Corrupt Practices Bill were in force, justice, observes OA Standard, would haVe been rendered sooner and more amply. It is true that only three days have been occupied in the inquiry, but the election took place so far back as July last. Under the new system the question might have been tried some seven or eight months back at the very scene of the scandal. It would have been competent for the committee to order that the agents of corruption should be criminally prose. cuted, and to confer the seat at once upon Mr. Ferrand, instead of forcing him to go through the labour and expense of a second election. The story of Coventry reads tamely beside the grander episodes of Totnes and Lan caster, Reigate and Yarmouth. One contemplates with something like respect the knave who has sold his honour and his vote dearly for from fifty to ten pounds, as at Totnes or Lancaster ; but your Coventry Liberal, who knocks himself down to the first bidder at ten shillings and a breakfast, is an object of disgust and contempt. The Telegraph reminds us that by the death of Lady Tichborne, which took place last week, a new element of doubt is introduced into the contest now p en di ng for the title and estates of the Tichborne family. The unex pected appearance, some time ago, of a person who claimed to he the rightful heir attracted an amount of interest very much greater than that excited by ordinary cases of dis puted succession, not merely because the new competitor's previous- history had been romantic, but because the lady now deceased received him as her son and thus put a sta m p , of validity on his clitims. The gentleman who, after an diience of ni.u.y years in Australia, was , o recognised, has now Coat the most valuable witness that could be produced in his favour, the ono whose positive and direct evidence world naturally outweigh all merely negative proofs that e.,111(1 be offered on the other side. To what extent his position will be affected remains to be seen ; but it is scarcely surprising that, where so much depended on the lady's life, her sudden demise should have awakened his suspicion, and that a formal inquiry should have been made into the causes of her death. THE RATEPAYING CLAITSES.—A meeting in the 'town hall of Hackney has been called, upeil ' a ^ numerously OA the 4th lila. ROMAN AFFAIRS. ;From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette) ROME, March 7. Before this is published, namely on the 13th inst., the Consistory will have been held, in which will be created the cardinals to whose elevation to the purple I have already ad verted. On the day above named the Pope will be borne in state in the sedia gestatoria ' to the aula consistorialis, where he will take his seat on the throne, surrounded by the dignitaries of his household, whence he will announce, in a Latin allocution, his intention of conferring the cardinalitial dignity on the first of those to be created, who on this occasion will be his Imperial Highness Mgr. Lucien Bonaparte. According to prescription, he will then address to the assembled cardinals this question, " Quid vobis videtur?" and the cardinals having one by one given their adhesion, he will pronounce the formula for the creation in these words : " Auctoritate nostra et beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli creamus et publicamus cardi nalem presbyter= Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae, N.N. cum omnibus clusulis et derogationibus opportuniis et necessariis." After a pause the Pope then proceeds to announce the names of the other prelates he intends to make cardinal priests; who will be Mgr. Moreno, Archbishop of Valladolid; Mgr. Gonella, Bishop of Viterbo; Mgr. Ferrieri, Archbishop of Syda, in partibus, now Nuncio at Lisbon ; Mgr. Barili, Archbishop of Thya nia, in partibus, Nuncio at Madrid; Mgr. Ber ardi, Archbishop of Niccea, in partibus, now Under-Secretary of. State; and Mgr. Monaco la-Valletta, assessor of the S. Congregation of the Holy Office. Also of those to be made car dinal deacons, who will be Mgr. Borromeo- Arese, Majordomo of the Pope ; and Mgr. Capalti, Secretary of the S. Congregation of the Propaganda. The cardinalitial berretta, mozzetta, and zuchetta, are conferred by the Pope's own' hand on those new cardinals who are present in Rome. To those who are absent, it is sent by the hands of a prelate bearing the title of ablegate, accompanied by a guardia nobile. In this case it is customary for the new car dinal to make a handsome present to the ab legate and the guardia nobile, and that the latter should receive a decoration from the sovereign of the country. The three who will be absent from Rome on this occasion, will be Mgr. Moreno, Mgr. Fer rieri, and Mgr. Barili. On the evening of the 13th, the new cardi nals will hold their first ricevimento, that is to say, they open their rooms to receive the com plimentary visits of the members of the corps diplomatique, the nobility and prelature, minis ters and public functionaries. The exterior of the palace is brilliantly illuminated, tar barrels full of blazing shavings light up the surround ing piazza, and military bands lend their aid to the festivity. Mgr. Bonaparte will give his ricevimento at the French Embassy ; Mgr. Monaco, at the Holy Office ; Mgr. Berardi, and Mgr. Borro meo, at the Quirinal ; Mgr. Gonella and Mgr. Capalti, at the Propaganda ; and the Spanish Ambassador will give one at the Palazzo di Spagna, in the name of Mgr. Moreno. A second and less formal ricevimento will be given on the morning of the 16th, the day of the Consistory, in which the hat and ring and cardinalitial title are conferred. The new car dinals will be presented to their places in it, after taking the customary oath. To be in vested with the hat they kneel before the Pope, who places it on their head, saying : Accipe galerum rubrum, &c. He then places on their finger the cardinalitial ring, and assigns to each a title of one of the churches of Rome. The hat, which is red, with gold tassels, is carried home to each cardinal's residence the same evening by the camerieri segreti, with con siderable ceremony. The title of Mgr. Bonaparte will be from Sta. Maria della Pace ; Mgr. Gonella's, Sta. Maria sopra Minerva ; Mgr Berarrlr s, SS_ Pietro e Marcellino; Mgr. Monaco's, Sta. Croce in Gerusalemme ; Mgr. Borromeo's, SS. Vito e Modesto ; and Mgr. Capalti's, Sta. Maria in Aquiro. I have not been able to learn as yet what titles will be assigned to the three absent cardinals. Mgr. BoDromeo will be succeeded in his post of majordomo by Mgr. Pacca, who cedes his of maestro di camera to Mgr. Ricci. Mgr. Franchi, Archbishop of Thessalonica, and formerly nuncio at Florence, will replace Mgr. Barili at Madrid, and Mgr. Oreglea di San Stefano will succeed Mgr. Ferrieri at Lisbon. While the Holy See is thus steadily fulfilling the routine of its functions, grave complications are forming all around it. There seems little room left for doubting that, without conclud ing a new Convention, which would have created too much noise, France and Italy have agreed to add certain clauses to that of Sep tember, 1864, amounting in substance to this —" Italy recognizes the temporal power of the Pope within its present limits, not only as a fact but in principle. She undertakes that she will not attack it nor permit armed bands to attack it. On the other hand France confirms the principle of the Unity of Italy, and pledges herself that it shall be respected. In presence of the above formal declaration of Italy she engages to withdraw her troops from the Papal State, while Italy undertakes no responsibility as to any complications which may arise within the Pontifical frontier, but reserves to herself full liberty of action in any such case." A new pretext of invasion is thus ingeni ously created. These mutual engagements were hardly signed (on the 21st February) when the Flo rence Government set itself to put in motion the " complications within the Pontifical fron tier which it had so sagaciously provided for. On the 23d, but two days later, orders were given to the so-called Roman emigrants to assemble on the frontier, at Terni, Rieti, Orvieto, and hold themselves in readiness to show them selves on the stage whenever the strings are pulled. About the same time came the attempt I told you of last week to make the search after brigands a pretext for crossing the frontier at Acquapendente and Montefiascone, and vari ous messages to the authorities to negotiate for the restoration of the arrangements en tered into last year between the Pontifical and Italian officers for the suppression of o.brio•and ae, which it is needless to say received nu countenance, for they took in no one. We have good information here that numer ous enrolments are going on in Italy, and that the sect is working in the shade. Only a day or two ago a quantity of muskets and ammu nition were found hidden in an island of the Tiber, near Acqua-Acetosa, a little way outside Rome. It is very generally thought that everything is being thus got into a state of due preparation against the French troops evacuate Civita Vec chia. But at the same time the question re mains for consideration, why such quantities of war materiel were accumulated at Civita Vecchia, that at least boded a longer stay. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that tactics of the same nature as those with which last year's campaign began are being resorted to by the sect. Thus, a band of " brigands " made a raid at Frosinone, and kidnapped two chil dren, demanding an enormous ransom. At another pl ace th ey entere d the c h urc h , an d scatterin g everything right and left, forcibly carried off the priest. Two companies of Zouaves were sent to Frosinone on Monday, which will suffice for the protection of that neighbourhood. But the frontier is straggling, and in its nat ure th e most difficult it is possible to have to defend against members of the bri gand fraternity. Nature has provided them With such perfect cover in the inequalities of the ground, woods and brushwood, rocks and caves, that troops who, from the nature of their antecedents, are less practised in the art of climbing, and hiding, and lurking, have fear ful odds against them. Still they have ever shown themselves shy of encountering the Zouayes, and when these are assisted by the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE'NI'NG, MARCH 16, 1868, native squadriglieri and gendarmi, they have everywhere proved an effectual barrier against their incursions. It would quite suffice for them to be sta tioned at a small number of posts along the line to shut them out entirely. The mere fact of their presence in the neighbourhood would do away with all necessity for encounters, were it not for the support meted out to them over the border. The design being to keep up agi tation, to make the people think their position under the ancient Government insecure, to make Europe imagine that it is weak and in capable, to harass and distract its attention, and to exhaust its resources ; of course it be comes worth while to employ any number of brigands to effect these ends. It seems strange that such unworthy means can be resorted to, openly, and in the face of all, in our age ; that Europe cannot keep in check the dishonest propensities of the youngest member of its body corporate ; that public opinion, which has done so much towards its establishment, can do so little to restrain its extravagances. That the case should be as it is, however, is not to be regretted, inasmuch as it provides a field for exercising and mani festing the faith and the devotion of Catholics. It is the boast of the Christian religion to be one of faith and sacrifice, and here is the prac tice-ground and the test of those virtues. It cannot be denied that so far they have shone more brightly through the cloud of ad verse influences than those who judged the cen tury from its opening years would have been inclined to expect. We have had bright ex amples of self-sacrifice, even to the death, worthy of the most heroic ages of the Church, and a crowd of acts of silent, unknown abne gation. But none—neither those who have already tasted the satisfaction of generous ser vice, nor those who from one cause or another, through diffidence, maybe, or want of heed, have held back till now—need imagine that there is no call for their exertion left. On the contrary, every token and every clear judgment pronounces that there is a struggle yet to come; that if men care about their faith they will yet have to come forward and show it, and deny themselves for it, and, maybe, like those whose memory is yet fresh and dear among us here, to die for it. There is no question but that the enemy is preparing for the attack, and will have either to be convinced that all attempts on the serried ranks of the Church's defenders are hopeless, or to be met and conquered in the field. In either case there is work for all, and dearly bought would be the ease or comfort of any who, for fear of loss or travel, withhold their hand from it. Of the stational churches this week, none calls for mention more than that of S. Anas tasia, at the base of the Palatine. It was built by Apollonia, a Roman matron, about the year 300, over the remains of S. Anastasia, a mem ber of a noble family ; her mother, Fausta, is commemorated in the Roman martyrology on the 19th of December. A letter written by her to S. Crisogono, who converted her, has been preserved, and is a model of terseness,— "As my body has now reached its end, pray for me, that He, for love of whom I endure these afflictions, may support and receive my soul. Farewell." This is the first church dedi cated to a Virgin Martyr. It has been restored at various times by many of the Popes, and almost rebuilt in 1636 by Urban VIII. It has lately been repaired and put in order at some considerable expense, and will be improved when time has toned down some of the vivid colouring. Its greatest ornaments are the fluted pasovazzetto columns, from the Temple of Neptune, on the Palatine ; the recumbent figure of the saint under the high altar, by a pupil of Bernini, is not without grace, Among its relics is a veil of our Lady's, and -part of the cloak with which St. Joseph.covered-thO young Child and His Mother during 'the flight into Egypt ; and for this reason when the Popes celebrated the first Christmas Mass at S. Maria Maggiore, where the greatest relic of the Nati vity—thi? Manger of Rothlehem is preserved— they used to come here to sing the second. Another motive of veneration for this church is to be found in its connection with S. Jerome, to whom it is said to have given the cardinali tial title, and who lived here during his stay in Rome. The glass chalice which served him at Mass is preserved on one of the altars. In the left transept is a monument to Cardinal Mai, by Benzoni, one of the greatest Roman sculp tors at the present day. On Friday the Quarant' Ore was at another church full of ancient memories, S. Francesca Romana. It was originally built to commemo rate the confusion of Simon Magus when he undertook to prove before Nero his claim to divine honours by soaring in the air after the manner of the tradition of our Lord's ascension. St. Peter met him only with the weapon of prayer, and he fell to the ground covered not only with confusion, but with wounds, of which he died. The church was either built on the spot where it was popularly held the oc currence took place, or this was inferred from its enclosing the stone flag on which St. Peter knelt on the occasion, and which is yet pre served for veneration, cemented into the wall of the south transept. Among its numerous restorations was one in 705, when the sacred relics and vessels of a neighbouring ruined church—Sta. Maria ve,cchia—being brought into it, it received the name of Sta. Maria nuova, which, singularly enough, it has retained ever since. In the south transept is also a handsome monument to Gregory XI., erected to him by the Roman people out of gratitude for his restoring the seat of government from Avignon back to Rome, though himself a Frenchman. A bas-relief of some merit pic tures forth the event. The high altar pos sesses one of the seven Maddonas of Rome, ascribed to S. Luke. A. Frangipani brought it from Troy in the year 1100. The church is at present under restoration ; the shrine for the body of Sta. Francesca Romana in the con fession, is consequently vacant. At present the cassa containing it was taken when the works were commenced, to the convent of the Tor de Specchi, of her order. The vault of the apse is decorated with very early mosaics, the gold background of which formed in its glittering reflections a beautiful crown to the circles of light surrounding the monstrance at the Quarant' Ore devotion. The Dominican churches, notably the Mi nerva and the Sta. Sabina, are keeping to day the festa of St. Thomas Aquinas. My fears that S. Luigi del Francesi would prove all too small for the would-be hearers of Pere Hyacinthe were fully realized on Sunday. The crowd overflowed down the steps of the church, and many had to go away unable to obtain standing room. All the approaches were thronged with carriages, many of them belonging to the Roman nobility. In person he is less attractive than Peres de Ravignan or Lacordaire, and his style is too declamatory to be altogether pleasing ; but there is no want of vigour in argument or flow of language. His theme was the temptation of our Lord, and his application of it to the language held by the world towards the Church at the pre sent day, and in all ages was striking and nerv ous :—" . . . If Thou be the Son of God, do this and tfiat which may display a Divine power. . . . If you are indeed the Church of God, why are you harassed by enemies ; why are you continually cheated and defeated by simple mortals ; why stand you in need of human means, and offerings of gold and silver, and the defence of armed men ? . . . If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. . ." And I heard those who were capable of judg ing, but who had heard no evil suspicion whis pered, pronounce his discourse as fine an apology of the Church as could be heard from any preacher of the time. Yet, there is no doubt that among the masses who hung on his lips were many actuated by the excitement of surprizing a word which could be construed as un-Roman, or too " liberal," or which could in any way be made to bear out the sugges tion that he is a man who has more admira tion for the present than the past, I have heard several attempts to make a case, but the most serious amounted to his having extolled imperial policy a little too warmly. It might have been better taste under existing circumstances to have treated that subject more mildly. The Popolo of Naples published on the 25th of February some revelations of the state of the prisons of Naples, which, though they have been repeated into many other papers, have, I believe, met with no contradiction, and would seem, therefore, to be but too well founded. It is curious that those who were so forward to show up alleged abuses under the Bourbons, which it was afterwards shown only existed in the imagination of calumniators, should now be quite silent. The accounts in the Popo1r) are so repugnant that I cannot bring myself to translate them in their entirety ; nevertheless, it is a duty to give every publicity to such accusations, that they may be either disproved or the evil reme died. I send you, therefore, an extract detail ing some of the modes of punishment which the Popo/o affirms are in use under the new regime of promised liberty. Those who have cried over the details of prison discipline worked out in " Never Too bate to Mend," will, I fear, not be able to read it at all ; but what of those who are subjected to the horrors it de tails ? Flogging with sticks and thongs seems to be considered a mild form of correction—a more effective one is found in what are called ferri corti—short irons—by which the prisoner is tied by the hands and feet, and sometimes the head also, into a sort of bundle, and left lying on the ground, regardless of the dis location of joints, which is too often the conse- quence. Another is called the puntale, and consists of an iron collar fastened round the neck of the prisoner with a padlock, and made fast to the wall by a chain. The minimum duration of this punishment is two days and nights. Another is the camicia di forza, which is a long, tight-fitting waistcoat of stout, coarse sackcloth (traliccio), with long, tight sleeves, the ends of which are crossed and secured be hind the prisoner's back. The punishment of the pally consists in strap ping the prisoner's elbows together behind him with a leather strap, and then appending to his wrists two chains weighted with iron balls, which attach him to the wall by passing through two rings fixed in the wall about six feet from the ground. The last mentioned is that called the cassone. It is a sort of coffin, in which a prisoner may be enclosed for twelve hours at a time, but so that he cannot move, as there are straps fixed to the sides of the box, so arranged that they would strangle him if he attempted to turn round. A certain Vito Demonte, sentenced to imprisonment for theft at Naples in June, 1866, was subjected during the term to this punish ment. It brought on a raging fever, during which he was heard to cry out repeatedly— " Rascals ! this is the reward of all my ser vices during the Revolution ! You didn't put me in the cassone, but paid me, when I tore down the Bourbon arms ! You didn't put me in the cassone, but paid me, when I helped to sack the police-offices !" dix. I have not time to enter into the details of how and why and when these tortures are resorted to ; that they should exist at all is a proof that the self-imposed government has failed to fulfil one of its loudest promises. Arrah, and isn't he paid for it to say all this;" and it. would appear that some such impression appears to take effect upon the Legislative Assembly of France, for the bill of the Government will in a brief time become, and very properly so, the law of the land. All the world appear to be get tit ig on as rapidly as possible with theirarmaments. Reichsrath has devoted considerable extraor (Maar), expenses in its budget for the transforma tion of its arms, and the fabrication of 250,000 breechloaders. Prussia, as the head of the Con.. federation of North Germany, appears daily grow- , hag more powerful, and does not seem likely to give u p or neglect any of her advantages. A War Minister has been sent to the Grand Duchy of Baden, and it is said that others will be placed in territory similarly situated ; whilst Bismarck, now President of the Zollverein, announces his intention to extend to the utmost the Confederate dominions, taking in Lubeck and sundry ether petty States, and extending the jurisdiction of North Germany as far as Hamburg. It is said that some differences are ;likely to arise between Prussia and Denmark as to some portions of Schleswig Holstein, but there does not appear any probability of their being carried to any extreme. The late follies of the ex-King of Hanover have been censured by both France and Austria, which has probably emboldened Bismarck to the confiscating the ex-monarch's property in Prussia. It is said that the ex-King possesses an enormous amount of private property, so that the sequestration will not be so severely felt. Prince Napoleon has been making a brief tour in L'Alle mayne du Nord, and public opinion, of course, attributes to it a political motive of some kind or other the Prince has been well received at Berlin, the Prince Royal himself awaiting his arrival. The Italian Budget does not appear at all gay. The debt in 1859 being less than one milliard, while it at present exceeds five. The imports also, which previous to 1859 reached about 450 millions, now exceed 600. All things considered, an annual loss of some 600 millions is probably the most approximate estimate. Ten per cent. will be laid upon Italian Rentes, it is said (a hint to the holders). There seems, therefore, no great danger of a warlike outbreak in that quarter, at present ; whilst, as another peaceful indication, the Italian generals commanding on the frontiers have made overtures (since accepted) to the Papal authorities for the re-establishment of that part of the Convention of 1867 which permitted mutual ac tion in respect to the repression of brigandage, by enabling each party to cross the opposite frontier. For that purpose a small band of Canadian volun teers, who have arrived at Rome, have been drafted amongst the Pontifical Zouaves. His Highness the Prince Imperial has lately received a splendid present through the agents of certain Daimios of Japan, who attended the late Exposition, in the shape of two Pharos, exquisitely fashioned in porce lain, and two magnificent sabres. Speaking of the Exposition, by the bye, reminds oue that the pro ' posed Grand International Maritime Exposition at Havre is rapidly approaching, and it is said that the preparations are in an advanced stage of complete ness. It will have a most extended scope, and will apply to everything having reference to the sea or to maritime affairs, especially to all the varieties of the finny tribe. Ample provision is being made in the aquarium for the reception of the rare speci mens that are expected. I should think now, if ever, we may have a chance of seeing a mer maid. On Sunday last the lovers of sport as sembled in large numbers to witness the courses of Porche Fontaine. The steeplechases were good, and exhibited a tolerably fair sprinkling of accidents. In the first, Royal Tartan, the fa vourite, and Perre Eine got intathe river, dragging wifh them-,Ocean` Witch, ridden - by -the noted Roy, whO also 'came to grief in the second steePle ehasOan4 handiaikiielOn• riding Loup de Mer,' :-1. clianap d'Oiseau, shatp4oOter and :Pigeon a good second and third. - The - tourie des - , Hales was Iron by Drupg, :heating tta . denaca'Sello da>Varaville and Ca price, whilst the Plate Conrse was won in good style by Fugitive, Brunchant and Magicien second and third. An accident occurred on Wednesday at the Gare du Nord in consequence of a waggon train running into the express from Cologne, which was arrested at the station ; no serious accidents have, however, resulted, and beyond a few contu sions, the passengers by the express have escaped with the fright. It is most fortunate that the express train was not in motion at the time A melancholy event took place last week, on Sun day morning, at the Rue St. Hilaire, which may be likened to a-second massacre of the innocents. The beads of no less than fourteen cats, apparently freshly cut from the trunks, were discovered upon one of those dust heaps which in Paris await the early street-cleaner. Great was the crowd (princi pally women) around, and loud and dire the wail. ing, resembling very much that of the Macgregor lament on the bagpipes, as the lineaments of a de funct favourite, now alas fixed in death, were recog nised and carried off probably for the purpose of embalming, as in the case of La Mole, by his or her disconsolate proprietor. I expect Civet and Gibelotte du Lapin formed the principal article in several of the neighbouring cheap restaurants for the next day or two. A ball is announced for the 14th at the Theatre Imperial, under the immediate patronage of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress. It will be for the benefit of dramatic artists. " Hamlet" is being brought out at the Opera, but I have not, as yet, had time to be present at its representation. " The Forte St. Martin" has been reproduced, the play founded on Dumas' celebrated work " The Three Musketeers," and the Gaiete " La Reine Margot ;" these two, together with the Theatre Imperial du Chatelet, where" Gulliver" is now superseded by " Le Vengeur," are the attractions, rather to secure de corations and splendid tableaux than for any intrinsic worth of the piece represented. But I have ap proached the limits permitted me, and, like the Ghost in " Hamlet," must vanish into thin air until next week. The Empress has lately graciously received the report of the Society of Maternal Charity, of which she is President, and which has rendered assistance to no less than 2,435 women during the past year, who have safely brought into the world 2,605 in fants. Her Majesty, as a mark of the great inte rest she takes in the welfare of the society, has announced to the treasurer her intention to bestow the sum of 6,000 francs upon the occasion of the first communion of the Prince Imperial. NAPLES, March 6. Admiral Farragut arrived here yesterday evening in the Franklin. This being Lent, and the Duke and Duchess of Aosta having been obliged to leave suddenly for Turin, in consequence of the death of the Princess of Cisterna, the Admiral may not find here the noisy demonstrations of other Italian towns; but the welcome due to his fame and popu larity will not be the less cordial on that account. Vesuvius appears to have been waiting for the Ad miral's arrival to make a little exhibition of its powers. The eruption has increased in intensity the last few days, the explosions from the summit and the increased run of lava attracting even those tourists who had been there before, We add to our correspondent's remarks the following telegram received yesterday : A grand banquet was given at Naples on the 12th of March to Admiral Farragut, Commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean, by Admiral Provano, Commander of the Second Naval Department. Generals Pettinego and Carrano, the Prefect, and the principal military, civil, and muni cipal authorities were present. The greatest cor diality prevailed. The commercial community are organizing another banquet in honour of Admiral Farragut, to be given in the names of the citizens of Naples. FRANKFORT-ON-TM4:-MAINE, Marcb 10. The citizens of this place have formed a society for various improvements and regulations to make the city a pleasant abode for Americans and Eng lish. A club-room is to be erected, with a good restaurant, and wines at very reasonable prices. All the leading London papers—the Galig nani's Messenger, Continental gimes, and Anglo- American Times, as well also as journals from the principal cities in the Union, will be taken. The club i to be free to all wishing to read the journals. A band of music is to play every morn ing on the promenade. The:managers of the theatre have made an ausser abonnenzent once, and some times twice, a week, by which all the boxes are thrown open for purchase to the public at three francs a ticket. The theatre is one of the best in Southern Germany. The city is constructing already the best sewers of any in all Germany, and at a cost of several million florins. A new Comic Vaudeville theatre is to be opened at the Saalban (great hall of music). Frankfort is known already as being very central, in the vicinity of the principal watering places, with beautiful parks and surround ings. Owing to its fine schools, of which those for schools are regarded as some of the best in Ger many, it offers great attractions to families in the way of education. It is known already as a great town for shopping, and is called the Paris of Ger many. One thing which speaks volumes in its favour, is that neither cholera nor any other epidemic ever raged in the city. It h now represented by Consuls General from Russia, Italy, Belgium, Austria, the United States, Sweden, Danmark, Spain, Portugal, and Consuls from England, the South American Republics, H olland, and the South German States. The enterprizing and public spirited people of Frankfort deserve much credit for their public spirit in these matters. We extract the following items from Wilkes' Spirit:— " Miss Mary Gannon died at her residence in New York on the 22d February, in the 39th year of her age. She was one of the best, if not the very best, actresses in her lino on the American stage. Her taeatrical career was confined of late years to Wallack's, where she was always a fa vourite with the public.—Mrs. General Lander was much annoyed recently during a performance of Elizabeth by a party of chattering women in a box. Finally, losing pa tience as well as her lines, Queen Elizabeth left her asto nished courtiers, and, approaching the box, said, "Ladies, the play cannot go on until you hold your tongues and behave yourselves." These few remarks hav ing produced the desired effect, her Majesty pro ceeded with the graver affairs of the State—Olive Logan has started on her country tour, commencing with Brooklyn. Mrs. Frances Anne Kemblo commenced a series of readings at Steinway Hall, on Monday even ing, March 2—" Coriolanus," " Midsummer-Night's Dream" " Tempest," and " King Lear." The _Herald curiously says, editorially, that " Mrs. Kemble wears still the same nobly-formed head whioh was so much admired when she made her first appearance at the Covent-garden Theatre." Mrs. Kemble possibly has a change of bon nets, but not of heads. James Stark, the tragedian, is in California. By a recent reversal of a decision of the Su promo Court, Mr. Stark loses his title to a large property. The " Sea of Ice" is being performed in Galveston. Lotti's German Opera Troupe in Mobile. Do Pol, with Mor lacchi and Blasina, in Cincinnati. Tho front entrance, or vestibule, of the Winter Garden is now to lot as a store. Charles Wheatleigh closed his eleventh and last week in San Francisco. He met with his usual success. Admiral Farragut received a complimentary visit from the Prefect of Naples last Monday. _ It is reported that the Emperor Napoleon will pay a visit to St. Petersburgh in June. Brilliant fetes and a review of 100,000 men will be prepared for his Majesty's reception. Madame Miramon, wife of ex-President General Miramon, of Mexico, under Maximilian, is stopping at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. General M'Clellan is still at Nice, but his con firmation for Minister to England is regarded as very doubtful. M. Van Voellenburgh, the American Minister at Japan, telegraphs that Admiral Bell, of the United States navy, was drowned in a small boat. His widow spent the winter of 1867 in Genova, and last summer at Homburgh and Ileidelburgh, and is still in Europe. J. Ross Browne has been nominated for Minister to China, cad will doubtless be confirmed. He is a great traveller and a very fine scholar, and also a good Union man. For some few years he lived at Frankfort- on-the- Maine for the purpose of educating his family. During our civil war he frequently gave free lectures before the English circle on the "Resources of America," which were always-listened to with attention. No better nomination htive:bea*made. This is sufficient answer to the lipitefal:ietnarks about this gentleman made by the Wash ington'correspondent of the Standard.; ,A- Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune the following personal gossip in regard to the .utetabeis of. the present Congress :—" In looking ,9ver of the members of the present House, the singularity in the names is striking. For instance, we have a Butler, a Baker, a Cook and a Cake ; an Archer, a Burr, a Cobb and a .Fox ; a Loan, a Nunn, a Pike, a Pile and a Price, a Kerr, a Kitchen and a Knott ; a Sawyer, a Stone and a Taylor. Make your own puns on them, Stevens, of Pennsyleannia ; Spaulding, of Ohio, and Thomas, of Maryland (73, 69, and 68 re spectively), aro the three oldest men. Haight, of New Jersey; Adams, of Kentucky, and Washburn, of Indiana, (29, 30, and 35 respectively, are the youngest members of tha House. Schenck, of Ohio, and Tobias A. Plants, of New York, are the two ugliest men in the House; Fer nando Wood is the finest looking; while G. M. Adams, of Kentucky, Thomas E. Stewart, of New York, Allison, of lowa, and Pomeroy, of New York, are among the handsomest ; Baldwin, of Massachusetts, is the fattest man, and Maynard, of Tennessee, is the leanest. In the Senate, James Guthrie, of Kentucky, is the oldest man, being 75 years of age, and Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, next being 71, Sprague, of Rhode Island, is 37, and the youngest man in the Senate, and Conkling, of New York, is the next youngest, being 39. Conkling also is the handsomest Senator ; and the most imperious. In the House there are :—Law yers, eighty-seven; editors, five, namely, Baldwin, of Massachusetts; Blaine, of Maine; Brooks, of New York; Glossbronner, of Penna., and Getz, of do. ; manufactur ers, 13 ; merchants, 9 ; farmers, 13 ; bankers, 3 ; clergymen, 1 ; hotel-keeper, 1 ; physician, 1 ; coal ope rator, 1; general business, 3 ; civil engineer, 1 ; rail road manager, 1; horticulturist, 1; lumbermen, 2 ; real estate agent, 1; and (stand aside, ye mudsills and common men!) gentleman, I—George E. Adams, of Kentucky. The real estate agent is John Fox, of New York; lumberman, Philetus Sawyer, Wisconsin, and T. W. Ferry, Michigan ; horticulturist,C.A. Newcomb, Missouri ; railroad manager, Ginery T wichell, Massachusetts ; civil engineer, G. M. Dodge, lowa : geneal business, Sidney Clark, Kansas, J. F. Driggs, Michigan, and B. F. Hopkins, Wisconsin ; coal operator, Henry L. Cake, Pennsylvania ; clergyman, William A. Pile, Missouri. John Morrissey, of New York, is put upon the roll as banker—not faro banker, just simply banker." The Cameron Coal Company, of Pennsylvania, have elected Mr. Paul Spofford their President, in place of Mr. F. Westray, resigned ; and Mr. L.A. Dowles is the treasurer. Intelligence has been received from the Cape of the death of the African traveller Mr. Charles J. Ander son, in the wilds of Ondogo, near Ovampo Land, bor dering upon the Portuguese possessions. Details are wanting. Ex-Governor Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, nomi nated by the President Secretary of War, is 78 years of age. He is an eminent lawyer, and well known for his political career, having been Senator, and held posts in the Cabinets of two Presidents, Harrison and Taylor. He retired from political life in 1851. RECEIPTS FROM THE PARKS.—The public ac counts for the financial year 1866-67 show that from Hyde-park £477 was received in contributions for keys; from Kensington-gardens £l4O for grazing rent ; from the Green-park 31s. 6d. for keys ; from St. James-park £B3 for grazing rents, .£220 for rent of ground, and 225. by sale of unclaimed articles found in the park—an item that does not appear in the accounts of other parks ; from the Regent's-park £349 fot keys, £4lO for grazing rent, and £336 for rent of ground. .£452 was received in fees on warrants for venison supplied from the Royal parks, and proceeds of sale of skins, &c., of deer ; and £lB4 was paid to the keeper of Bushy-park in fees for deer killed in the park. V e DTERTISEMENT.i—HOI I OWay ' S Pills. — Any dyspeptic surer aware of t e purifying, regulating, and gently aperient powers of these pills should permit no one to cloud his judgment or to warp his course. With a box of Hol loway's pills and attention to its accompanying "direc tions" he may feel thoroughly satisfied that he can safely and effectually release himself from his miseries without impairing his appetite or distressing his digestion. By aiding natural nutrition this excellent medicine raises the bodily strength to its extreme limits and blnishos a thou sand annoying forms of nervous complaints. An occa sional resort to Holloway's remedy will prove highly salu tary to all persons whether well or ill whose digestion is slow, or imperfect, usually evidenced by weariness, listless ness, and despondency. [ADyERTISEMENT.]-11eneeforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position heel been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, ISGG.—" The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, ho has confined himself entirely to Du Berry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consum e s a plateful at every meal. It has pi educed asurprisingly beneficial effect on his tweak, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of more than 58,000 cures:—Care No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ner vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49,832 : " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly. ' Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Caution.— Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most auda ciously attached In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d,•, 5 lbs. lls.; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., .40s.—BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fo rtnum and Mas on , 182, Piccadilly; and at 61, Graceeltureh-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 298, 0149ralarget• 330, statudi 4914 PA EX9ctrf3 Auci cholifite. MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS. • LIVERPOOL, March 5.-Arrived, the John Clark, from Baltimore ; the American Eagle and the Denmark, from New York. March 6.-Arrived, the Skfold, from Charleston ; the Eastham, from New Orleans. BRIS TOL, March 5.-Arrived, the Japan, from New York; SHIELDS, March 5-Sailed, the Union, for New York. TRALEE, March 5-Arrived, the Nicoline, from New York. GRAVESEND, March 7.-Arrived, the Pera, steamer, from New York. LIVERPOOL, March 6 -Arrived, the Skfold, from Charleston. March 8-Arrived, the Messenger, from Savannah. Sailed, the Java, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, March 5-Forty chests and 152 half-chests of tea will be sold here by auction on the 12th March, ex Craigrowine, from Loudon to Halifax, N.S., which put in here on the 9th February, with loss of foremast and other damage, and making a little water. NEW YORK, Fob. 24.-The Blonde, British brig, from Vera Cruz, went on shore at Minatitian previous to the 24th January; crew and passengers saved. CUSTOM HOUSE, March 7.-Vessels Entered Inwards -the William Penn, from New York; the Cairo, from New York; William Penn, for New York. Cleared out with cargo, the Constantine, br New York; the John Mann, for Bos ton. GRAVESEND, March 7.-Sailed, the John Mann, for Boston ; and the Constantine, for New York. DEAL, March 9.-Sailed, the Cellia, for New York. Liv.EurooL, March 8.-Arrived, the Clifton Belle, from Callao ; the Messenger, from Savannah; and the Anne Pearce, from New Orleans. March 9.-Arrived, the Glenhaven, from New York ; the Palmyra, screw steamer, from Now York. Sailed, the Vondor Heydt, for Havannah. SOUTHAMP TON, March 8.-Arrived, the Deutschland, screw steamer, from New York, Feb. 28, having been detained by a storm. BRISTOL, March 8.-Arrived, the Oriental, from Savan nah. OFF CROOKHAVEN, March 9.-Arrived, the Palmyra, steamer, from New York; and the Manhattan, screw steamer, from New York, left on the 26th. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 7.- Arrived, the Java, from Liverpool, for New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The J. and G. Wright, from Greenock to Boston, was spoken, Feb. 16, in lat. 36 N., long. 71 W., and was supplied with provisions by the Thomas Brown, at Boston. The J. and G. Wright reported having on board two of the crew of the Lizzie F. Choate, of Gloucester, New York to Antigua, which vessel foundered Feb. 9 ; master and two men drowned. Feb. 26-The N. Mosher, from Liverpool, which was brought into Boston July 25, from Barrington, N.S., is obliged to keep her pumps constantly going. CUS TOM HOUSE, March 2.-Vessels Entered Inwards-The Princess of Wales, from New York. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-A National steamer, bound E., Feb., lat. 48 N., long. 17 W.; the Virginia, from Liverpool to Savannah, Jan. 30, lat. 40 N., long. 14 W. ; the Intrepid, from San Francisco to Liverpool, long. 50 W., of Point Conception; the Cultivator, from Liverpool to New York, Feb. 20, lat. 43 N., long. 54 W. GRAVESEND, March 9.-Put back, the Constantine, New York, with loss of anchors ; had sailed previous day. OFF DOVER, March 9.-Arrived, the Cella, screw steamer, from London for New York. LIVERPOOL, March 9. -Sailed, the Leith, screw steamer, for New Orleans, and the Sarah Harris, for Havannah. March 10.-Arrived, the J. H. Ryerson, from Mobile ; the Ericsson, the Manhattan, screw steamer, and the Tripoli, screw steamer, from New York. Sailed, the Joaquina, for Havannah ; the Stella, for St. John's, Newfoundland ; Progress, for Philadelphia; the- J. Foster, jun., for New York ; the Olinda, screw steamer, for New Orleans. COWES, March 3.-Arrived, the Johanne Marie, from Ant werp for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, March 10.- Sailed, the New York, screw steamer, for New York. PORTS MOUTH, March 9.-Sailed, the Liverpool, for New York. CARDIFF, March 9.- Sailed, the Thomas Dunbar, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, March 10.-Arrived, the Ctiy of Washington, screw steamer, from New York, and left for Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, March 10.- Arrived-Tripoli, from New York. Sailed-Joaquina, for Havannah; Olinda, screw steamer, for New Orleans ; Progress, for Philadel phia ; and James Foster, jun., for Now York. March 11. Arrived-Golden City, from Mobile ; the Bon Fils, from New Orleans. Sailed - City of Baltimore, screw steamer, and the Denmark screw steamer, for New York; and the John Duncan, for St. John, N.B. HOLYHEAD, March 10.-Arrived, the Challenger, from Liverpool, for Now Orleans. 017 THE FASTNET, March 11.-Arrived, the Minnesota, screw steamer, for New York. CARDIFF, March 10.-Sailed the Egeria, for New Orleans. QUEENSTOWN, March 10.-The City of Washington, screw steamer, from New York, left this port at six a.m. for Liverpool. HALI FAX, Nova Scotia, Feb. 22.-The Queen of Clippers, schooner, which has been lying at Winkworth, near Windsor, witha hole in her bottom, caused by the ice, has been sold ; the cargo has been discharged. The Smyrna, steamship, from Dantzig to London, left Christiansand Feb. 5, and has not since been heard of. The Anne Augusta, from St. John's, New Brunswick, to Warren point, reported Jan. 29 as ashore on Cranfield Point, near the latter port, was sold March 7, as she lay, with the cargo in her, and realised for the hull £l9O, and for cargo £5OO. GRAVESEND, March 12.-Sailed, the Petita for Havannah. DEAL, March 12.-Arrived, the Irphio, from Antwerp, for New York. LIVERPOOL, March 11.-Arrived, the Ken drick Fish, from New Orleans, and the Golden City, from Mobile. Sailed, the Lieutenant David, screw steamer, the City of Baltimore, screw steamer, and the Denmark screw steamer, for New York. March 12.-Arrived, the Arbutus, from Matanzas ; the Esperanza, from Mures; the Peruvian, screw steamer, from Portland ; the City of Baltimore, screw steamer, from New York ; the Victory, from New York ; the Isaac, from Alexandria. Sailed, the Nova Scotian, steamer, for Portland ; the Alchymist, for Adelaid3 ; the Bengal, for Calcutta. The Henry, schooner, Runcorn to Plymouth, sunk yesterday off the Middle Mouse ; crew saved. The Compage, hence to Tampico, has returned into dock, having been in collision in the river, on the night of Bth March, with the Mary O'Brien, from St. John's, New Bruns wick ; lost bulwarks, &c. ; also sustained damage to rigging. QUEENSTOWN, March 11.-Arrived, the Minnesota, from New York. Had damaged her fan three days after leav ing New York. WEXFORD, March 11.-Touvelle Hel vetic', from New Orleans to Liverpool, is ashore at Bally tigne, much damaged ; heavy sea on; crow safe. .N EW YORK, Feb. 28. -The Allan, from the Clyde, which put into Montego Bay, Jamaica, Feb. 6, was short of water; bound to New Orleans. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-The Roscote, San Francisco to Liverpool, Feb. 26, lat. 41 N., long. 25 W ; the Queen of the Mersey, Calcutta to Nevi York, Jan. 6 ; the Amanoa, Calcutta to New York. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DIIE. Australis and New Zealand, via Soathamptoa.....March 23 Ditto, via Marseilles 22. Ditto, via Panama March 3/. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video April 6. Ditto, by French. packet.... •••••• • March 22. Cape Verde, by Brazil packet . ••••• .„. April 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension. and St. Helena—. March'22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. March 21 • Ditto, 7111 Marseilles .....••• March 15 Falkland Islands •.•.. April 6. Gibraltar, via Southampton • March 15 India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Malta, Egypt, &c. March 21 Ditto, Marseilles March 9 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton . ...Mare:h 2 1 . _ .. Ditto, - Marseilles ~ March iB. Newfoundland .. .. ..........March 11. Portugal .... Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto t Ato to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, Sao., by British , . packet Ditto, by L Lited States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditt l ( Baltimore) .. .. Ditto, by Canadian packet .... ... ..... .. March 13. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe --March 13 • West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha• mas) Cubs and Mexico March 30. Bahamas, via New Y -- Ditarch 25. Bermuda, via Halifax . MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, The foreigner living in Paris cannot t r elp ir struck with the admirable and pateinao ll a ll : l 2o 3 ti= which France iegovernel l ." The' b!life source of power is the Emperor,t 7 h* ‘ Nvi.4 ° enlightened policy; of ently pursued for years, be li - =pith* And the tar get at the same time for a thousand malevolent attacks, is now triumphantly stamped with the seal of neoereas, and of the interests of humanity. The policy of the empire, said the Emperor long ago, is peace ; and in the Universal Exposition of 1867 the civilized world has received from the master spirit who planned its details a lesson and a proof graven in characters more durable than iron or marble, in characters of living light, upon the intelligence of nations, before which the clouds of ignorance, and bigotry, and suspicion disperse like mists before the sun. There have been many Expositions, but never one like that of 1867. • It showed the monarchs of the four quarters of the globe that all petty and personal interests must yield before the march of civilization—before the welfare of peoples ; and the lesson came with tenfold force from the monarchical ruler of one of Europe's greatest and grandest na tions ; and the war demon spread his wings, and fled away from before the face of the Angel of Peace. When unoccupied with the cares of State, where is the Emperor of the French to be found? Amongst his people, founding this in stitution, supporting that -- driving round his capital in an unassuming little phaeton, noting down this or that alteration to be effected, asso ciating with him unceasingly in every work of well doing or progress his only son, that he may, in after years, perpetuate the policy of his father and the grandeur of France. For long years no country looked with greater suspicion upon the policy of the Emperor than England, and the institution of the Volunteers took its rise mainly from this circum stance ; but where now in Great Britain, and by whom is the policy of Napoleon better appreciated than by those very Volunteers, the intelligent mid dle classes, who form the most powerful element of that mighty nation, and who cannot but see what was long since foreseen by the Emperor of France, that the position of those two great monarchies, in regard to human interests and human civilization, utterly preclude the possibility of their clashing in a useless war, and that if a contest of any kind is to arise between France and England, it should be a contest as to which of the two should go farther in the cause of progress ; and that which may be said of France in regard to England may with equal justice and reason be said of her in respect to the other powerful nations of Europe ; 1 that for the future it must be a moral weapon with which the disputes of nations shall be decided, no matter what provision or panoply of war they may amuse themselves in preparing. Passing on from the Emperor to his Ministers, we find the same principles of liberality and progress ; and the bril liant sophistries of the lawyers and newspaper editors of the Opposition evaporate before the calm, sound sense and close cogen t reasoning of the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of State, and of Mar shal Neil, like feathers blown before the whirl wind. I was much amused this morning in casting my eyes over the columns of the Siecle, which has hitherto been carping incessantly over the proposed measure with regard to the law of the press, to find the following paragraph enumerating the principal advantages of the present measure :—" The neces sity for permission to establish a newspaper exists no longer ; the stamp duty has been reduced ; the maximum of penalties lowered ; there are no more admonitions ; the Judges have no longer the power of depriving a person condemned for newspaper offence of his electoral rights for five years. En somme nous regardoins le regime de 1852 conzinelavantageusemeht modi fie. I think this littlesummary, coming as it does from one of thebitterest supporters of the Opposition, speak volumes as to the liberal tenour of the mea sure which has now nearly passed into law ; and unless these gentry wish to obtain an unbridled licence as regards newspaper literature, than which there is no more powerful nor dangerous weapon of attack, Ido not know what they want. Perhaps they wish for the return of the days of red caps, and that pleasant feeling of insecurity which cha racterised the reign of terror ; think a human head on the top of a pike a very pretty ornament, and breaking the baker's windows and hanging thebakers themselves, the shortest and most agreeable, from of helping themselves to a four-pound loaf. There is a popularity hunting, self-interested sort of feel ing which tinctures strongly of the oratory of such pleaders as Jules Favre, and others of his stamp, which always reminds one of O'Gibbet's advice to Titmouse, in the cm of the lection Petition. Births. PAviEs—On the 13th inst., at 8, Dover-street, PiccadillYl the wife of A. H. Saunders Davies, Esq., of POlltrei Pembrokeshire, of a daughter. FALKINER 011 the 14th inst., at 39, Dover-street, 1,109 Falkiner, of a daughter. MACKE SON - On the 13th inst., at Hythe, Kent, the wife ° I Henry B. Mackeson, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. CLARKE —PROTHEROE -On the 12th inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebone, Lieut.-General Augustus Clarke! H.M.'s Indian Army, to Henrietta Foote, widow Evan Protheroe, Esq., of Lee, Kent. WRIGHT —LOXTON —On the 14th inst., at All Sai nts Church, Fulham, William Wright, Esq., of BaysiVate to Emma, widow of the late C. Loxton, Esq. of the Deaths. _ FANS -On the 12th inst., while out hunting, Gen. biila may aged 73. GOSLING —On the sth ult., at Rangoon, Burmab, u General Gosling, Commanding the Pogu aged 61. GRIFFITH—On the 13th inst., at Crown-lane, Norwoc'cl' Surrey, Thomas Griffith, Esq., aged 73. Geor ge WINTELER —On the 13th inst., at Sydenhar n, Wiuteler, Esq., of 2, Philpot-laue, City, aged 44. WILLETT On the 13th inst., Mr. Wm. Henry Willett, eat Bloomfield Cottage, Wells-street, Camberwell , and Or° Kuightrider- street, Doctors'-commons, aged 6i. of WITHERBY—On the 13th inst., Frances Withe rb y , d tl° 3, Highbury-terrace, and the Stock Exchange, age London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDltgl,' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t TRH SUN ODRA No 1.,: Strand, in the PrOCinCt of the Savoy, in the County ltiddlem.—Alowapy, bittub, 16, 1868. 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