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London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

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ETRIDis. BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Mr. D. Murray.
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Marston. Nelson, ltaks. and Mallon ; Melia Colas and
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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 14.

IT is natural that the tendency towards a closer
union between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, which
has become manifest in proportion as the two
German Powers, receding from the more humane
maxima of government which they seemed of late
years to have adopted, entered upon a path of
violence and fraud, should produce • profound
impression in Perla, where the combination is
naturally regarded as a challenge to the EIIPZEOL
Only • few years ago it was the proud boast of NA•
routos lIL that he bad for ever broken the autho-
rity of traditions which date from tte overthrow of
his uncle and the misfortunesof France. Englishmen
sympathised in his satisfaction, for they saw in the
cessation of that malign and terrible influence which,
until 1855, barbaric Russia bad exercised over
Europe, a pledge of the early triumph of liberal
ideas and the establishment of free institutions in
State after State which had long been held in'
bondage by Russian aid. The pismire with which
we observed these changes measures the regret we
feel as we see them suspended sod placed in peril.
Still we cannot make ourselves responsible either
for the liberty or the pesos of Europe. If
the tide of European action has set in,
and there is no one to stem it, there
is undoubtedly a cause. An unfaithfulness to
the principles of liberty and national indepen-
dence on the part of those of whom better things
might have been hoped, first tempted the three
Powers to resume their old practices, and combine
for common action. Had the Germans, whom the
successful war in the Crimea delivered from the
overshadowing power of Russia, shown that they
really valued free government, instead of going
mad over what is called the principle of nationality
—a principle which in the present state of Europe
is as likely to prove narrow and retrograde as to
conduce to freedom—they would not now be ex-
posed to • combination which threatens their
liberty. On the other hand, we are compelled to
observe that, bad the French Government re-
mained true to the earlier principles which the
Exrsaoa proclaimed, the alliance between the two
countries would not have been reduced to that
feeble and attenuated condition in which this
unhappy Danish business overtook it. We
have no desire to dwell with fruitless
iteration on • state of things which is only too
well known. The causes which led to the par-
tial estrangement of the two countries were suffi-
ciently stated during the di melons of November
last, and preceded the refusal of England to take
part in • proposed Congress. Even now few Eng-
lishmen understand the policy of France in this
Danish difficulty. They give the Exrutoa every
credit for his frankness towards the British Govern-
ment in the clear and timely statement of his
intentions, and this is a great merit, bu. they des-
pair of understanding how it is that the unjust
dismemberment of a kingdom and the most cruel
oppression of a brave people can be matters of in-
difference to a monarch whose sentimental and ideal
aspirations have given him a peculiar name and
place among the potentates of Europe. Like the
Pay; we desire a frank and sincere alliance with
France, but to be profitable it must be based on
a deliberate and discerning estimate of the charac-
ter of the two countries, and of the objects and
interests which they can henceforth pursue in
common.

Is there or is there not * Raid Tay Dope*
went at the Board of Trade f Mr. Mu.arta
Gissex seems to admit that something of the
sort is in existence ; but he takes care to warn
the House that it has no executive power what-
ever, and that its business (if it has any) con
sista in not advising Parliament to legislate
for the safety of the public. Will no independent
member undertake the duty of bringing in a short
and simple bill compelling railway companies on
and after a certain date, say January 1, 1865, to
alter and adapt the construction of their carriages
so that from one end of every train to the other
there shall be—as we have already suggested—a
constant patrol of the guards, and a constant super-
vision and attendance upon each carriage, if re-
quired, and a constant and uninterrupted communi-
cation between one compartment and another t
We in England are apt to be proud of doing nothing
like the rest of the world, and it is remarked by
railway travellers abroad that the nearer they
approach to England the journey becomes less
comfortable, if not less safe. Letters which our
contemporaries and ourselves have published since
the monstrous tragedy at Bow, insist on the
fact that not only in America, but in Europe, the
most obvious and simple precautions are taken
against these deplorable outrages ; precautions
perfectly compatible with due precision and punc-
tuality in the stated arrivals and departures of the
trains. No doubt railway travelling is in its in-
fancy in ►ll that relates to the comfort and con-
venience of pssaengers. Fifty years hence our
present mode of railway travelling will certainly be
described as barbarous. For barbarous the age
might well be c►lled when people travelled four
and five hundred miles under lock and key, and
were only let oat every hundred miles or so to
stretch their legs and swallow a hasty morsel of
miscalled " refreshment " at a tenth-rate luncheon
bar, and when a traveller hesitated to sit down

alone with whet might possibly

thieves, or a professional
miscreant waiting far the
comraiting a criminal assault

woman out of reach of

midst of a crowd. Fifty years hence a train to
Holyhead or Aberdeen will be a travelling hotel,
with all an hotel's aooommodation for sleep and

refreshment ; and it will be at least as safe to
travel from Kensington to Farringdon-street, or
from Hackney to Fenchurch-street, by railway, as
it is now by omnibus. But surely even now there
is something to be done. We are inclined to
think that the objection, which hes been well con-
sidered in France, to a belt or other apparatus
attached to each carriage, and available for any
passenger to communicate with the guard et may
moment, is not unfounded. Unquestionably it
would be liable to abuse, and it would be no more
available in all cases against assault than bolts and
bars are available against housebreakers. But
there really can be no other difficulty than the
expense (which is the affair of the companies, Not
of their passengers, and which would certs+aty net
be ruinous), in the reconstruction of our railway
trains on some sy.t..ru of uninterrupted and
incessant communication between all comport-
meats of the train, and between the guards of
the train and all the passengers By this
system, and this system only, such outrages and
such panics as we are now enduring can be at
once and absolutely prevented, and railway tra-
vellers, whether to the far North, Kest, South,
lor West, or round the outskirts of London, be
enabled to take their seats in the confident

assurance that though they may be massacred
wholesale by a bewildered pointaman or a sleepy
signalman, they cannot be maltreated or murdered
in detail. This will be a great gain.

We are enabled to state that a proposal bee been
sent by the Danish government to the Allied Powers
for a suspension of hostilities and the opening of
negotiations for a peace.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing•street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Arippll, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell,
Earl De Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right How.
C. P. Villiers.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COILMONS.-JOLT 13.

UNIFORMITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Order for second reading reed ; motion made, sod question
proposed, " That the MN be sow read a sseood tone :*—
A meodmeet proposed, to leave oat the word " mew; sad
at the sod of the question to add the words "apow this
day three months::"—(Mr. Walpole :) pet,
" That the word ' sow' Weed part of the question :"
The house divided; Ayes 101, Noes, 157.

AYH&
Adair. H. K. Zinnia, J. Martin. I.
Agee., Se A. Brans, T. W. Hellmann, A.
Athlumnay, Lard Evert, W. Miller. W.
Ayrton, A.S. Swart. J. Mlle I. IL
Armin. H. S. Yananek. L M. Allell, T. A.
BOSWelle J. Pinky. A. S. llorria, D.
Barham fer P. Pontiff, C. Aloreason. W.
Baran, T. Poster, W. 0. (Moor Doe, The
Bailey, T. Heaton, J. W. Crloildee. Kr C.
Ihnicakr, H. P. Moon. T. Y. Oadow. G.
Sartain, C. P. Gilpin, C. Mt..
Black. A. Greene J2bl I.
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hoarTerle. P. P. iii.ll. Pionef,
H.
ii Brand, H. . O. Poi Mr. L
Buckley, Geo. Banbury, Z. Ricardo, 0.
Bailer, 'lr A. Bardcosile, J. A. Roberta's, D.
Butler, C. S. Headlsm T. L Remelt A.
Coird, J. lietplawn, 4. ltuelqll.Btx W.
Carnegie, C. Reeky, Lord Seery, C.
CLL... Jocks:a, W. Seymour, B. D.
CU Slr Z. J. lancers, Sir J. C. Smith. IL T.
4.71 re. G. /Lk& P. J. &sr:pools. W.
Cotalen, L Ilake, A. W. Stansteld. J.
(biller, Sir R. P. Klnuaird, A. Taylor, P. A.
Kastchbull-lioger- Tracy, C. B.
Crawford, R. W. Den, E. Trelarrny, Sit J.
Dewey, Z. Lawton, W. H. Turner, J. A.
Davie, CoL T. Larson, W. Waders. S.
Denman, 0. Leath/ass, Z. A. Whalley G. H.
Dena& Sir Z. Lateen, 0. J. weft., I.
DUhrys, L. L. Les, W. Width, L.
Dud. 11. L Lewis, H. Williams. W.
Dunbar, Alf W. Locke, Z. =ULM
Landau F. loon, Z. Barrens, P. P.
Dorados, Sir D. Workribsaks, D. C. Oceans, G. J.

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Adderim, C. B. Grey de Witco. Via. Noel, ICI
Baritelot, Cal. °filth, C. D. North, Col.
Bete on, Sir T. Mr L Northam. Sir S.
Beecrott, G. 8 N T. C. O'Neal'. L
Bentlack, 0. C. Hamilton. C. Parke, C. W.
Boom. L Hamilton, Vied. lecke. OW.
Bamford, D. W. Handitem, I. T. Palk, Sir I.
Brill, W. Hardy, G. Palmer, Sir B.
Bramston, T, W. iiartopp, K. B. Papillae, P. O.
preintidge, H. Barmy, R. D. Parker, Maley W.
Bridge*, Sir. B. W. Hay, Slr J. ?GUM, Cal. W,
Briscoe, J. L Henniker, Lord Peel, Oen.
Brooks, IL Hensler, Ur Ir. W. Peet J.
Burghley. Lewd Hill, IL C. Powell. P. 11.
Burrell, Str P. Hodpoe, K. PowynLybba P. L.
Cairns, Sir H. Hood, Sir A. Pritchard, J.
Cartwright, Col. liernttzikW.H. EOFII, J. J.
Care, S. Hors T. I. J.
Cecil. Lord Z. Howes, ey, R. T.
Cochrane, A. A Humber tea. P.S. Scoaraalid, J. H.
, Cole, H. Hat 0. W. Sels, C. J.
I Cole. J. L. Ingestre, Vied. Smut, Abel
Collins. T. Keketrich. 8. T. lionsee, J.
Colthorst, Slr G. Kelly, 80 P. Stirilog, W.
Copeland, A`d. Kendall, N.
Corry. H. L. Kennard, B. W. =it -Col.
Cabin, O. V Mg, J. K. Start, M. G.
Carson, Visa. Knight. 1. W. garter. H. L
Dawson, H. P. Knox, Col. Tsibot, W. C.
Dime% B. Knox, Major Taylor, Col.
Draz. J. 8. Langtoe. W. G. Tb . Lord H.
Cans. C. Letroy, A. TrOemaht.
J.
Duncombe, W. H. Legb, Map, Treberns, U.
Da Pre, C. G. Leg& W. J. Trevor, Lord A.
kerne, Sir P. G. Leslie, C. P. Turner, C.
Egerton, A. P. Leslie, W. Vane*, J.
=M W. Liddell. H. 0. Vamittart, W.
agma. Sir J. Lysli. 0. Verner, Mr W.
Zetconrt, T. H. Msedoctogit 7. Verner, Z. W.
lane, Col. Manners, Lord J. Vernon. R. P.
Familiar, Mr M. Mlles, Sir W. Vyse. Col.
Pellowee, IL Miller, T. J. Walcott, Adal
?errand. W. Mills, A. Walter. J.
likaralt w, I. Milford, W. T.
m--.-.. •••• Wraseal W. W 601152011 E. W,
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Montagu, Lord IL Whinnies, J.
fore. ter. Om. Montgomery. Slr G. Whitmore H.
Fraser. Sir W. A. Morgan, 0. Yorke, I. T.
Gant R. & Morgan, Maim Yorke, J. B.
Gilpin, Col. Mundy. W.
Gladstone, W. More, D. TILLIZL
Gorr J. IL Nam, Lotd Walpole. 8. H.
Gore, W. B. Neale, C. Hestboote, air W.
Greenwood, J. Newaegate, C. N.

The majority against the rote Ineluded, it will be osea,
the following liberals :—Mr. J. Brierne, Mr. Gladstone, Mr.
J. Greenwood. Mr. Noosed, Mr. Nests, end Sir B. Palmer.
The following members of tbe government supported
the rote :—Mr. Brand, Sir R. Collier, Sir W. Dunbar,
Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. C. Gilpie, Mr. Iloadlain, Mr. Knatel-
beill-Hugmeen, and Mr. L. White.

Tin PROROGATION OF PAILLIAMIGIT.—The minis-
terial fish dinner is fixed to take place on Satur-
day, the 23rd instant, and it is expected that the
state of public business will permit the prorogation
to take place about the end of the week following,
not improbably on the 28th instant.
The Speaker has announced his annual entertain-
ment to the Serrjeutat-Arms and other officers at the
Hones of Cornmeal for Wednesday next.

It appears from a parliamentary return issued
this morning that Si persons were convicted within the
parish of St. Pauerse of using false and =quirt weights,
measnrea, or balances in the year fading the ?BM March
last. Ooe chememonger, convicted a mooed time of
"unjust balances," was fined 201.
MR. AND MM. ALFRED WIGAN'S RILDIWOR.—
Ilse above accomplished actors gave the Bret of a series of
saiecellaneons readings yesterday morning, at Apelety•boese
(by the kind permiasion of the Duke of Wellingtoo), before
a select, fashionable, and crowded audience. The pieces
chosen were two scenes betimes Sir Peter and Lady Tends,
from the mixed and third acre of the School for Scandal;
ldsoaulay's spirited ballad of " Horatio, ;" the trial some
from the Merchant of Venice; Hood's "Bridge of Sighs,"
and less knows serio-comic " Ode to my Sea, seed 3 years
and 5 months ;" Ayterin's " Death of Montrose ;" and the
third some from the third act of Hamlet. A mooed reading
will be given on Monday seat at Stafford Home, by the
kind permission of the Duke of Sutherland.

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Priam Louis of Hew sod Prloom adasis, abbiadod by
lodlbo d. Groovy, rods on botookook.

The Prices of Wales rode on -horseback yesterday,
staesited by Oaptsio Grey.
The MINNS of Wslee took s carriage drive.
Itiair royal highnesses weal in the ionise to the roamer-
, MAIM gives by the Doke of Bawaleosh at the Royal lierti-
eolturel Gerd/ass, South Siansingion.
In eitescissos were the Son. Mra. Stonor and Captain

Tile PriDOO of Wales boo:toured Mr. Eras Thomas by
imsectiag the memorial of the Primo Consort now is
ezeontiori for Teatry.

A deputation on the subjoot of s bill for the regulation
of the municipal affairs of the town of Belted, consisting
of Mr. Maguire, M.P., Sir P. O'Brien, LP., Mr. Mealy,
M.P., Mr. Formica, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Waugh, Dr.
Cumming, Mr. Y•Keuoe, the O'Cooor Doe, IL P.,
Mr. Bagwell, M.P., Mr. Bellew, M.P., sad Sir C.
CfLoghleo, M.P., had se 'Morriss, with Lard Palmerston,
at Cambridge Home, yesterday.

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