The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-13 00:00:00

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IN the House of Loris on Monday the Earl of
MALMO...IIW av exprnesedageliberate opinion whisk
vitally affecting tbe bosom of this country, and
being mad. by a noblemen who may any day be
calk,' to direct the foreign policy of the empire,
is sure to attract much notice abroad. The noble
lord went somewhat out of his way to refer to
suletun binding engagement which Great Britain

took six years ago towards the other great
European Powers, with Sardinia and Turkey,
and to say that when the time came for
fulfilling the obligations we then assumed, we
should disregard them. In justice to bis lordship
we must admit that lie was impartial, and gave to
France as little credit for good faith ae he was in.
tuned to claim for his own countrymen. The more

the noble Earl. woe& my reflected on the more ex-

traordinary they appear. It might have been
expected that a statism= wbo in the spring of
the year 1859 bed so impressively admonished
France and Italy on the duty of observing treaties,
would not now be heard speaking with levity of
a solemn diplomatic act bearing the signature
of her MAJDCIYA Plenipotentiary ; it is not un-
reasonable to suppose that one who had been
Foreign Secretary of England would be proudly
conscious of the proverbial good faith which is
inseparable from the reputation of England.
These considerations, however, did not hinder
the Earl of 31,twirssuar from saying that in his
opinion "if a great war should take place, the
" Declaration of Paris would cease to be re-

" garded. " Considering that the engagement
in question wu made for the case of war, being
in fact the promulgation of slaw of war, and having
no applicability in time of peace, the noble Earl's
statement la in effect that it was a promise made to
be broken.

Minister of an American Presiiiint.• We have
seen two wars in Europe within these ten years,
each of which was a great struggle, while neither
of them was of that fatal character imagined by
Lord Mamotescay. lute/national Law may be no
awn able to control a nation in its death throes
lima a constitution can provide for the direction
of a political revolution, but treaties are not on
that account to be made light of.
Foreigners who may read Lord MALIMMURY'm
strange trifling about "the paper declaration of
" 1856 " will do well to bear in mind that, in the
eyes of the English Government and nation,
treatise are sacred as the national honour, and
that whoever may be in office, the engagements of
this country will be fully and religiously main-
tained.

ebt Court.

—.—
OSBORNE. Yrs. 12.

Lieutenant-General the Hon. O. Gray has left
Odosame am the royal yacht Victoria and Albert for Antwerp,
M east the Crown Prim:en of Prussia, who la expected to
embark there to-morrow for England, on a visit to her
Wady.

A abetting of the menses of the Wolk:Poe Ckßep
we hold at 11 o'clock yesterday awning, at the Palma of
Weekeirreler ; pressal--the Red of Derby (president), the
Deis of Wellington (virepesidant), the Duke of Now.
tad* the Marquis of Weber', the Earl of RUsehreisegli,
Earl Russell, Viscount Ready, Lord Obeholsoi. the
Right Hon. Sermoar Wasiak We Jamie Weir Hogg, But.,
Sir Alexander Woodked, Mr. Thomas Bating, M.P., Mr.
H. R. Cox, sad the Rev. G. R. Gleig.
The Duke of Camhrktp was unavoidably prevented from
Mitenaleg the meet*.
The Bev. E. W. Beeson (Head Harter), Calmat the Hos.
W. P. Talbot (110emary Seczetary), and Mr. Chance
(lametm7) attended.

A illopelatioo, consisting d Sir W. Scott, LP., Mr. Car-
nes* ILP., Mr. Gird, M.P., Mr. Dui, 111. P.. Mr. Miller,
/LP., Os Rev. Dr. Guthrie, the Rev. Dr. Themes, and
Mr. W.Duncan. had ea interview with the Lord President
and the Vice-President al the Committee of Council on
lithisties yesterday at the Privy OessedoMos.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. T. Cioreiag, Ye. Robed
Charles Ransoms. Mr. S. Notcutt (Town Clerk el Ip/wlsli),
Mr. Z. Goddard. Mr. J. B. Gaud. sad Mr. P. B. Legg (Cleric

to howl& Dock Cummirlossni. had aa heterviow idth the
Right Hoo. T. Milner °items ead the Right Man. W.
Matt yonterday, at the °Moe of the Board of TM., upon
the subject of the Fwatera Counties Railway Amalgamation
Bill The deputotioo was into:Awed by Mr.
Adair, IL Y.

A deputation from the Central Committee of School-
masters of every deoomieetioo, from all yarts of Ragland,
bad as taterview yesterday with the Lord President and
the TherPresident of the Committee of Council on Ederr
lion. at Ma Privy Ocassil-elboe. The deputation was is.
Madam' by Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., and Mr. Duff, M.P.
TIM deputation aordsbed of Mr. Henry S. Sales, the
Meseary seerseary ; Mr. Randall, of M. James's School,
Wmfeskider ; Mr. R.. Woods. hoe. eseratary, Mr. F. R.
Ostarplua. Mr. W. T. Mee, Mr. J. Laailoa, 8.A., Mr. J.
Mom 8.A., Mr. J. Doe" Mr. W. lapraiss, Mr. T.
Ryder, Xt. J. ides, Mr. Hayssuan, Mr. W. White, Mr.
J. Houroatia, Mr. W. Monday, Mr. J. Adams, Mr. J. H.
Hay. Mr. T. A. Day, Mr. 0. W. Nifty, Mr. T. Crumples,
Mr. T. P. Mows, Mr. J. Make, Mr. J. Arthur, Mr. J.
Welber, Mr. E. Heap, Mr. J. Windage.. Mr. J. Phillip,
Mr. J. Sparrow, Mr. W. Kimptoa, Mr. G. Hardy, Mr. C.
Bilks, Mr. J. Barrett, Mr. W. Dyes, and Mr. A. Judd,
and may °there.
Denpatehas were NM yesterday free the Oolosial-oMos

LATIler

riot

THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO MEXICO.
The CURS66I4 Gonne/ publishes the following letter
from Vera Cruz, of the 9th ult., mentioning the
disembarkation, on the Mexican coast, of the first
French expedition, under the orders of Admiral
Juries de la Grayiere. It says :
We arrived on the 7th, and the leading of the
hoops oommenced the morning after. The whole
squedrca is anchored at eacrificiae, which is about • league
teem Vora Cm.. The Zonaves were the flint to /end, with
the battery of mountain artillery, commanded by Lintenent
Enings of the navy. Those troops made a triumphal entry
into Vera Cr.., the Spanish soldiers forming a Bee an far es
the baratoka The Spanked, oommitteda great milhary fault
Mont* here alone ; Vora enu is actually invested, madam
they dons wan not strew ewe& to get rid of the age,
the Mikan' have bad time to keep provisions from the
town. As egg costa a franc and a half, and fresh meat can.
sot be preenired at all. In • few days all that will be
changed. The French flag float& on the tows fort, and at
the two extremities, right and left, those of Spain and
Easbad.

THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION.

The Nord of to-day says :

We have not ex igger;ted the step which Austria and its
satellites have taken at Berlin. The Viennese journals
ilternselyce, though wrongfully attributing to K. vas
Bernstorff the origin of the quarrel which was raised by
the illudrised project of the Saxon minister, Von Beast,
see in it the prelude of an agitation which will engage the
press and public opinion of Germany, and which, like the
late inundations, may shake to the foundation the already
tottering edifice of the Confederation.

to theflovtenor of Card&

The Declaration of Paris was fourfold. It was
a renunciation of the right to grant letters of
marque ; and it laid down the rules—that the neu-
tral flag covers the enemy's goods—that neutral
goods under the enemy's flag are not liable to
capture, and—that blockades in order to be bind-
ing must be effective. Lord MALYZIIIII:RY did not
give any reason for the sinister prediction that the
engagement which the Powers took to each other
to observe these principles would bo treated as
waste paper. He did not refer to anything which
bad happened since 1856 to show that the disposi-
tion of the Powers had changed, or that the ob-
servance of their mutual promises bad become more
difficult. There is nothing in the stipulations
theniselves which warrants Lord MALMLABCRY in
casting doubts on the probability of their due and
faithful execution. They are so many reforms
for which the world was thoroughly prepared, and
which the reason and morality of the age called
for. They rest, however, like other international
obligations, on the moral integrity as well as on
the prudenoe of the States which have accepted
them, and it might have been hoped that Lord
Matersarav would have remembered that fact
before be made a speech the direct ten-
dency of which was to subvert the only autho-
rity they possess. If our neighbours hear from
an English statesman of Lord MALNIESBMINIS rank
that we neither expect to we them observed by
France, nor hope to be able to observe them our-
selves, tho effect of such • declaration may be
imagined. The noble lord did not impute actual
insincerity to the negotiators of the Treaty al
Paris; ho professed to see in the forte of
circumstances the cause which would render
their work vain and futile. But since
those circumstances were as plain to the
ne Aistors as they were to Lord Matatas-
ui the distinction has no practical value. So
far from renouncing the Declaration of Paris, with
the obli4ations which derive from it, her MAJESTY'S
I :overnmetit has recently been in correspondence
with the United States of America respecting their
adhesion to it. The correspondence was broken

oti because Earl Rtissatz. would not allow that Go-
vernment to oonclude a Cotivention which would have

bound its revolted States. Suppose that, instead,
it had been broken off with the declaration that, on
mature reflection, the Government of the United
States had convinced itself that, in Lord Mat.xut-
eiaa.'+ "in case of war, the Declaration of
" facia would cease to be regarded." We can
imagine that Lord !tla tut:set-KY wont.' have been
the first to cry for vengeance on those who had so
deeply injured us as to call our ancient goal faith
and honour in question.
limited by Earl GRANVILLE to consider whether
he had not been carried in the heat of debate be-
yond the limits of his exact meaning, Lord AOlE3{-
51 RV repeated his dangerous prediction, with only
this explanation, that ho was contemplating the case
of a great country like Franco or England driven
to th; last extremity after a desperate war, and
struggling for very existence. But this is wretched
levity. We all know that there are some objects
beyond the power of law to control. Lord
Mxxxxsaver has perpetrated, without any con-
ceivable motive—unless we consent to believe
that this was his way of denoting his
disapprobation of Lord C nox's work—
the very blunder which Mr. SEWARD committed
when he wrote to Lord LYONII of Messrs. SUDILL
and Mame( that, " if the safety of this Union re-
" quirod the detention of the captured persons it
" would be the right and duty of this Union to
" detain them"—is proposition not the less reply-
henaihle in its obtrusive and wanton expression be-
cans. it is fundamentally true, one which Mr. Mil&
has endorsed " as no other than that professed and
" acted on by all governments," and the prin.
ciplu of which COLIRIDGE from his opposite standing
point has sanctioned as a part of national morality.
These extreme ewes are not to be supposed
without a clear necessity. It is no light thing
to tamper with the general rules of moral conduct,
nor is the offence less in a British Peer than in the

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THE iiEPRESS, THiritiDt... EVENING, FEBRITAir 13, 1862.

partook of lunch is the captain's cabin. The
Warrior sailed for Gibraltar the same day.
The Count de Loma has died at the age of 89
years. He was Minister of Finance during the
reign of Dom MigueL
A corvette and sloop of war have been launched
at the arsenal in the presence of the King and a
numerous company.
The royal yacht Osborne sailed for the Levant
on the 4th inst.

There is no political news of interest.
It is supposed that the government intends to
create a new batch of peers.

Napoleon for inteoduciog law the address a paragmph
the Pontifical porsollneed. The committee has
deed to adopt it, and the Prises will in consequence
present hla the Senate. It will beat the five signatures
required by law—of the Prises, of M. Pietri, M. de
lisainth, and General. Huron and Korth

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE OF HER MA-
JESTY'S NAVY FOR THE YEAR 1861-2.

The following is an estimate of the aunts required
to provide for the probable excess upon the amount voted
for the navy, for the service of the year 1861-62, under the
following heads of the annual estimates :
No. L —WAGES TO BLANIN AND NAB/PM—To defray
the charge of wages which shall come in course of payment
in the year, ending on the 31st day of March, 1862, for °M-
inn, seamen, and boys employed in berlfajesty's fleet, in
amiss of the numbers authorised, including purchase of
clothing for Disease, to., 100,0001.
No. 2.—Vicrotre eon Swum AID limuns.—For the
purchase of provisions and v ichualing 'tares, 'Mother @bargee
for officers, seamen, and boys employed in bar Majesty's
fleet, in excess of the numbers authorised, in the year end-
* the 31st of March, 1862, 30,0001.
No. 17.—Azwr DIPARTMINT (CONVITANCT OT Tacos).
—For freight of "hips on monthly pay, 83,6581. ; for freight
of ships engaged for the conveyance of troops to and from
Great Britain and the colonies, and of military pensioners
from Great Britain, 85,583/. ; for coals for steam transnott%
23,5461. ; far freight of ships for the oonveyanoe of stores
to and from Great Britain and the colonies, 8,428/. ; for
mess of military officers and civilian' of the army depart-
ment while co passage to and from foreign etttions in her
Majesty's ships of war, treasporte, and freight ships, 911.;
far fitting monthly transports and freight shim, 2,7101.;
for bedding, blankets, and other stores for troops, 2,7421. ;
for forego and stores for horses, MI. ; for the pay and con-
tingent expenses of oMesre of the navy employed as 'gents
far transports afloat, or as temporary agents at the outputs,
81181. ; for provisions and medical comforts for troops em-
barked on board ships of war, troop ships, monthly trans.
ports, and freight ships, 25,8591.; total, 234,338/.—grand
total, 364,3381.

THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

On the 28th ult. the following circular was ad-
dressed to the inspectors of mil mines
" Whitebait, Jan. 28,1882.

" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to
request that you will at your earliest convenience tree nit
to him a return, so far as relates to your district. showing-
-Ist, the number of accidents, distinguishing fatal and DOD-
fatal, arising from the falling in of shafts, or obstruction of
the mine, during each of the last three years ; 2nd, the
amber of collieries or iron-stone mines having single shafts,
and the number having double shafts ; led, the possibility
of effecting communications under ground between adjacent
works belonging to the same or different proprietors, so as
to obtain the advantage of their respective shaft. ; 4th, the
practicability of having double shafts in every instance, and
the probable oat thereof. —I am, &c.,
(Signed) " G. Cove."
The following were the instructions issued by the Horne
Secretary to the mining engineer who was deputed to
attend the inquest at Bartley
" Whitehall, Jan. 31, 1862.
"Sir,-1 am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to
inform you that he has learnt with much satidection that
you will be able to undertake the duty of attending the
coroner's inquest, obe held at Hartley, in the county of
Northumberland, on Monday next, the 3rd February, for
inquiring into the deaths which occurred in the pit at
Hartley Milieu, in consequence of the recent lamentable
amident at that place. Sir George Grey trusta that your
presence on this occasion will be satisfactory to
the coroner and jury, as well as to the many
persons immediately interested, and to the public at large.
I enclose for your information a copy of a letter which
has been addressed so the coroner on the subject of your
attendance at the inquest, and also an extract of • letter
addressed, by Sir George Grey's direction, on the 24th
instant, so Mr. Dunn, the inspector of the dierist. Mr.
Dunn will, of course, be present at the inquest in his official
capacity; but be has been informed by Sir George Grey
that there is • general desire that some person, free been
any load Influence, should also be appointed to attend
it, and you may rely on his cordial co-operation with
you in the performance of the duty entrusted to you.
Your great preclical experience will enable you to afford
valuable mistime in this nein*. You will carefully
watch the evidence which will be submitted to the jury,
and you will doubtless receive from the coroner every
facility in putting such questions to the witnesses as appear
to you to be important, and in suggesting, if necessary, any
additional evidence, in order to make the inquiry in
all respect. thorough and complete. That the inquiry
should be a searching one, is not only due to
the feelings of the large body of persons imme-
diately affected by this melancholy event, and to
the universal sympathy with them which has been so
strongly evinced, but it is demanded by the still higher con-
sideration of the duty of ascertaining what precautions can
and ought to he taken in order to guard as far is possible
against the recurrence of such a lamentable loss of life.
The inquiry into the immediate mule of the accident, the
safety of the use of heavy cast-iron beams, will obviously
demand consideration ; but the most melancholy feature
be the present case is the failure of the unremitting
efforts made, with the greatest courage and penmen
ance, under circumstances of much difficulty and dan-
ger, to save the lives of any of the large number
of venom shut into the pit by the closing of the shaft.
In inquiring into the causes of this failure, there are two
point. to which the attention of the jury will no doubt be
specially directed. One is the condition of the shaft at the
time when the accident happened. with reference to the
rule required by the 10th section of the act 22 aid 23 Ariel.,
0.151, to be observed for securely casing, or making secure,
working pita or shafts. The other, and the most important,
is the means of communication between the working parte
of the pit and the surface, involving the question
' of the practicability of enforcing • general regu-
lation that communication with the surface should
be provided by more than • single -shaft. While
Sir George Grey has thought it right briefly to advert
to these leading subjects of inquiry, he feels that he
may confidently rely on your 'eminence, judgment, and
discretion, acting as you will, under a stone of the deep
interests attaching to this inquiry for an efficient perform-
ance of the duty which you have commuted to undertake.
Ou the conclusion of the inquiry Sir George Grey will be
glad to receive from you a report cif your proceedings, with
such suggestions as shall appear to you calculated to pro-
mote the great object of providing additional security to
the valuable lives of the large body of persons employed in
collieries and mines.-1 am, Arc.
(Signed) " H. WADDINGTON.
" Kenyon Blackwell, Fag., South See House, City."