The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENTNG, APRIL 17, ISSB.

" the army." He never heard of, nor can understand,
the Quaker theory of religious worship and service.
The one point in which the squire and parson
agree is, in concluding that the recusants want to
wave a few shillings a year ; and if asked whethst
HAMPDEN wanted to save his few shillings by 're-
fusing to pay ship money, they " don't see what that
" has to do with it."

However true it may be that in many parishes
the rate has been abolished without the aid of Par-
liament, so that there has been an exemption from
compulsory levy to the amount of 60,0004 within a
short time, it is no lees true that the grievance is
elsewhere becoming heavier, the injury to the
Church more manifest, and the peace of neighbour-
hoods mote fatally disturbed. There will always
be magistrates and clergy who will make burdens
more and more grievous to be borne as they see the
term of their power drawing on ; and this is so
flagrantly the ease at present, in the matter of
Church Rates, that every wise friend of the Church,
and every good citizen anxious for the public peace,
will be eager to preclude, by legislation suitable to
the time, the whole set of mischiefs which arise from
overbearing authority on the one band, and popular
martyrdom on the other.
There is mischief going on at this moment at
Manchester, where the citizens 'apposed the whole
affair settled long ago. At Liverpool, the rate is levied
as " voluntary " (the word being on the tax-paper,
and in red ink); and a similar subterfuge is being tried
in some Metropolitan parishes. The Manchester people
supposed themselves to be in the same position ; but
they have been unpleasantly awakened from the
dream, as the local newspapers show. On the Bth
instant a vestry-meeting was held in the Cathedral,
which recommended the Churchwardens to convene
another meeting, for the purpose of laying a coat-
palsory Church Rats within the parish of Manchester.
The thing will clearly never be done. What is
wanted is to pall down the old ruined church tower,
in order to its being rebuilt. What right has any-
body to suppose, the citizens ask, that they will not
willingly pay—Dissenters as well as Churchmen—
for such an object? Since the compulsory levy of
Church Rates has wend money has never been less
plentiful for Church objects than it was before, but
the contrary, while every friend of religious and
social peace has been gratified by the continual
growth of good will between various sects, and
their easy and natural approximation for good ob-
jects. And now, all this improvement is put to
hazard, the Church is weakened, and Dissents
strengthened, and sectarian warfare is introduced,
by the folly of proposing to demand as a com.
puleory tax what would cheerfully be given
as a freewill offering. Here is the most recent of
many lessons on the precarious character of that
abolition of Church Rates which takes place without
the aid of Parliament. It is a good thing, well
worth struggling for ; but there is no security in it;
and we must have the security which will be
afforded by Sir I. TtetAwse's Bill, and by no
measure which falls short of its scope. Between
this time and Wednesday let all diligence be used
to secure every reformer, and every real friend of
religion and its liberties, being in his place.

The newspapers are inundated with plaintive or
indignant representations of the impossibility of
tind;ng Policemen when they are wanted. La cab-
driver or omnibus conductor extortionate or in-
solent ? is a pickpocket caught with his hand in
your pocket ? is a narrow thoroughfare blocked up
by the obstinate determination of two driven of ve-
hicles neither to give way to the other ?—the Police-
man is always looked for, but rarely to be found.
Various explanations have been propounded of this
extraordinary phenomenon, among these the irre-
sistible attractions of the fair denizens of the areas
has hitherto been the most popular. A now light
has, however, been thrown on the subject in the
course of Dr. Bzarskao's trial.

Mr. JOHN Rocess, of the Metropolitan Police,
tola the Court and Jury in the course of his exami-
nation that he has served in that force since 18,51
three years u a private and subsequently u a ser-
geant. He receives the regular pay, and is only em-
ployed on what seem to be considered in Scotland-
yard u the regular duties of the service. In addi-
tion to this information, Mr. RO4i ERS imparted the
fact that he has " been engaged for several months
" in watching the French and Italian Refugees."
One of his special charges was to attend the
meetings of a Debating Society in Leicester-square ;
and it is but justice to the gentlemen
who may take part in the proceedings of that
society to state that in the opinion of Mr,
Roolas—who as a Sergeant of Police, and moreover,

if we take hie own word for it, a perfect master of
the French language, ia, of course, a competent
judge—" there was nothing very shocking " in
their mode of discussing French and Italian affairs,
and the comparative merits of despotic and consti-
tutional Governments.

Now, it appears, that the first visit paid by Mr.
ROGERS to this Debating Society was on the 9th of
January—five days before the attempt in the Rue
Lepelletier at Pule. The meetings of the Society
and the subjects of discussion are regularly adver-
tised. They are attended by Englishmen—probably
with a view of exercising themselves in the use of the
French language—as well as foreigners. There is
nothing secret about them. The dircusions are not,
even in the estimation of the fastidious Mr. Roceas,
" very shocking." They are, in fact, frequented from
the same motives thatinduoed Buz to attend and
take part in the meetings of "the Robin Hood."
They constitute a kind of intellectual gymnastics long
patronised in London. To these meetings Mr. ROGERS
was sent by Sir RICHARD MAENE, in plain clothes. To
the Commissioners of Police he made Reports,. from
time to time, of the subjects discussed, the terms in 1
which they were discussed, and the persons who at-
tended. And a similar systematic espionage of
the Refugees had been commenced, and perse-
vered in, months before the affair of the Rue
Lepelletier and the WALEWSkI correspondence. What
interest have the thief catchers of the Metropolis in
the sayings and doings of the political refugees
among us? There can be no doubt that the Reports
of Mr. Rooßße were intended for the perusal of
higher functionaries than even Sir RICHARD MATNI
and Captain LABALMORDIERE. But, again, what
interest has the English Home Office in the sayings
and doings of political refugees? The information
obtained by sending Policemen in plain clothes to
mingle with unsuspecting foreigners, and report all
their words and gestures, must have been collected
by the English Home Office to be reported elsewhere.
The fact is, that the persons of the emissaries
of the French Police in this country have come to
be so well known to the refugees that their
eerance into any assembly is immediately
followed by a chilling silence. French spies being
no longer of any nee, the French Government
has, of late, borrowed from the orympathising
CLutarrnott-CLAticsiton Government in England
the services of some C.:llillit Detectives—we will not
say spies, since Lord Camenit.t. objectts to the appli-
cation of the word spy to eavesdropping Policemen
in plain clothes.

There is something, it will be admitted by all,
very undignified, to say the least, in the PsULU.

STON Government (for it was under the Pu.neasTote
Government that the practice appears to have origi-
nated) lending itself to be the spy-master--the
Feinatn—of a foreign Government. Every true
Liberal will be indignant at such a gross violation
of the laws of hospitality. Be it remarked,
that the miserable subterfuge that the affair
of the Roe Lepelletier has placed a portion of the
political exiles now in England in an exceptional
position cannot be pleaded ; for the PALMERSTUN
Cabinet had accepted the office of spy-master for the
Continental despots before that affair occurred. But
this is not a concern of foreigners alone. Will the
men who stoop to such unworthy practices to serve
an alien Government shrink from them when
their own purposes can thereby be promoted ?
How many of these Policemen in plain
clothes are on duty in the English Debating
Societies of the metropolis? How many Policemen
are from time to time taken off their regular duty
when friends of the Minister for the time being de-
sire to have somebody watched ? The truth ia, that
this " Detective Police system"—this practice of
sending Policemen in plain clothes everywhere, to
report on everything and everybody, is increasing
to an intolerable extent. You cannot elbow a
stranger of pretentious, questionable gentility, at any
labile place, without having uneasy misgivings that
he le a Policeman in the disguise of a gentleman.
It is for the Rate-Payers of the metropolis to put
on
end to this nuisance. They are entitled to say—
We pay, and pay liberally, for a Police to maintain
security of person and property. We 6nd from sad
experience that we frequently cannot obtain the
services of the Policemen for whom we pay so
heavily when they are wanted. And we find that a
number of the Police are systematically withdrawn
from the teak of protecting our shops, pockets, and
persons, and set to discharge political duties. We
think it very hard that Mr. Inspector This
or That should be jaunting about in Belgium,
gathering up political news f'om political
quidnunce, for the illumination (or mystifica-
tion) of Downing-street and the Tuileries,
end all at our expense, though his absence
from London allows the swell mob to run riot.
We want the Police, for whom we are taxed so
heavily, to keep the houses at Notting-hill safe
from burglars, to prevent brawls in Ratcliff-high-
way and garotte robberies in St. James's-square.
We cannot spare them for the political service of
Government. Government has indeed been of late
emulating the Governments of the Continent as a
patron of science, literature, and the arts ; and
perhaps it may incline to go further in its imitative
career, and keep a Political Police because they do
so too. But, if Govynnsent a ill indulge in 'itch a
costly folly as a Political Police, let it openly ask the
funds wherewith to do it from Parliament, not
sneakingly steal the services of our Thief-catching
Police.

If the Rate-Payers of London will but speak out
earnestly on the subject, they may be certain that
the police travellers in quest of political informa-
tion—whether in this Island or on the Continent—
will speedily be recalled to attend to their more
appropriate duties. And they need have no fear that
their resistance to the misappropriation of their
thief-catchers will lead to the establishment of a
recognised Political Police. The French Political
Police are sufficiently repulsive, but the English
quasi-political Police are still more disagreeable
animals. They combine the vulgarity of the area-
sneak with a snobbish hankering after such decora-
tions as they have seen at the buttonholes of their
French political brethren. In 1819 the employment
of the EDWARDSES, OLIVER., and CASTLESES roused
a perfect hurricane of national indignation. In 1821
the collectors of garbage for the " green-bag"
emptied on the table of the lions* of Lords, in the
ease of Queen CAROLINE, were equally odious. The
English people will not tolerate the permanent in-
regimentiog of the EDWARDEES, OLIVER., and
CASTLESES of our day. They are already more than
sufficiently nauseated with the number of foreigners
who have been admitted into the Metropolitan
Police, with the fraternisation between mouchards
from Paris and the borers of gimlet-holes in draw-
ing-room doors, in Scotland-yard; and with the
ostentatious attentions of the whole tribe of Mr.
Inspector BUSHELL to the foreign female witnesses
in the case of Dr. BERNARD.

MR. 188111111' 8 APPLICATION OP LORD

CLARENDON'S DISPATCH.

The Opinion of Turin makes the following com-
ment upon Lord Clarendon's despatch of the 29th December,
instructing Sir James Hudson to suggest to the Sardirdan
government that it should miss an objection to the legality
of the capture of the Cagliari,—the same despatch which
Kr. Erskine has been censured for investing with a more
positive and efficacious character than his official superiors
areatyresent disposed to avow :

"Thu document does not require mazy comments ; its
Moor is so explicit, the language in which it is expressed is
so pigs and forcible as to preclude all uncertainty, and ob•
elate the possibiliii of say doubtful interpretation. The
minister who dictated this despatch was manifestly imbued
with the persuasion that the Cagliari not having been cap-
tared within the l; nits of the Neapolitan juris-
diction, had not been legally captured, and that the
Pledmontese govetansent bad, therefore, a right to
protest against that capture. If the Earl of Clarendon had
not had such a persuasion he would have confined himself to
desiring the Eug'ish envoy at Turin to ark the opinion of
the Sardinian government, sad would not have added all
those observations wlack simoniguiy that request in the
despatch referred to. To say that the surrender of the
Cagliari to the Neapolitan frigates was a voluntary act of
her captain, is, in the judgment of Lord Clarendon, ' a
mockery and an abuse of terms. The Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs in England could not have spoken more
clearly. The despatch of the 29th December attests, then,
in an indubitable manner, the fact that the British govern-
ment was convinced that the capture of the Cagliari had
been illegal, and that therefore that government then con-
tended on behalf of the same opinion which has since been de-
veloped with so much dignity and firmness by °aroma Minister
of Foreign Affairs. Now from the month of December 1857 to
the month of April 1858, things have not been in the least
changed ; the facts which were true then are still true now,
and have only the corroboration of soma additional proof ;
and the manner in which they were regarded by the British
government could not be changed without leaving room for
suppositions which we cannot admit, and which we even
abstain from pointing out. The error of copying which has
been so much talked about, and wbich in reality, instead of
being an error, is tha only logical interpretation that could
possibly have been put upon Lord Clarendon's dispatch,
cannot and ought not to have any influence upon the resolu-
tions of the English government to such an extent as to make
It alter] its views upon a question of the law of nations, the
settlement of which in accordance with the principles of
equity is of the highest importance to the dignity and safety
of all the maritime states of the world."

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT NEWPORT.—On
Saturday tact his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
through this town on route for Ireland per South
Tat Railway. The prince was accompanied by his suite,
sad rode in one of the royal carriages. The inMlligenos of
his royal highness being on the journey was received at our
Commercial-rooms by telegraph, and in consequence a large
number olth, inhaUtanta were on the platform awaiting Me
snivel. Loud abases greeted the young gentleman, who
IPC Med not a tittle pleased with the hearty welcome. One
gentleman was so enthatiestimlly loyal, that he peered
through the crowd exclaiming, " Our Prince of Wales
won't be ashamed to shake bands with • Webbinan "
and received a cordial "shake hands" as the result. fat-
mow states that the prince will return from the slater king-
dom era Milford, and on his arrival per South Wales Rail-
way, will debark at this station, and be received by Sir
Benjamin Hall, Bort„ fora short visit to Llsamr.—Briitel
Newry.

situ Court.

The Queen held a court yesterday afternoon at
Bucking, ham Palace.
Marshal the Duke de Illalakhoff had his first audience of
the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty his credentials as
ambassador from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the
French.

—Hie Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Malmo,-
buy, ber Merry's prinolnal Secretary of State for Foreiga
Adore, end conducted by Major-General the Hen. Sir Ed-
ward Car, her Melody's Master of the Ceremonies.
The Earl of Malmeobory bad an audience of the Queen.
TM Earl of She Meld sad liont-Col. F. Cavendtah were
the Lead sad Groan in Waiting.
The Queen end Prince Comsat, attended by the lion.
Mary Belted, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Captain
Du Plat, rode on horseback in the forenoon.

tissliticre;se; TdKeintTipits7d Is; ilarest;.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princesses Altos, Helena, and Louisa, honoured with a visit
in the afternoon the Exhibition of the New &tcietyuf Painters
in Water Colours in Pall-mall. In attendance were Lady
Churchill, Hon. Lacy Kerr, the Earl of Sheffield, Lieut.-
Colonel F. Cavendish, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and
Captain Da Plat.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, afterwards took a drive in an open •
and four. The Equerries in Waiting attended on horseback.

A deputation from plaoes in the Isle of Wight, oonsiAting
of Mr. W. Jambs, Dr Lamm, Mr. R. Tharlow, and Mr.
Gabelt, from Narchuroh ; Mr. G. Young, from St. Helene;
Mr. J. Brook, from Binding; and Mr. J. Liulefirld, Mr. G.
Reddest, Mr. R. Yolf and Mr. A. Oldfield, oommiesioners of
the town of Hyde; and Mr. J. Martin, cororniseinner of the
town of Ventnov, had en interview with the Poor-law Board
yesterday on the subject of the Isle of Wight Poor Bill.
Meetings of the Cambridge University Commissioners
were held on Monday, the 12th, Tuesday, the 13th, Wednes-
day, the 14th, and Thursday, the 15th inst., at 6, Adelphi-
terrace. The commissioners present were the Lord Bishop
of Chmter, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., the Right
Hun. M. T. Bainco, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Lmrrence
Peel, the -ire-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood, the Dean of
Illy, and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan.
Messrs. Hayman, of Liverpool, introduced by Mr. Bors-
tal', M.P., transacted business at the Foreign-o . Down-
street, yesterday.
were received yesterday at the Colonial-Aloe
from Lord High Conamisaioner of the lonian Islands.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-Aloe to
the Governors of South Australia, Canada, and the West
ladles.

NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
—Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highnees the Prince
Consort, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the
Prineeeste Alice, Helena, Louisa, and attended by the Hon.
Lucy Kerr, Lady Churchill, the Rea of Sheffield, Colonel
Cavendish, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Captain Da
Plat, honoured the New Society of Painters in Watn.
Colours with an inspection yesterday (Friday), previous to
the Eshibition being opened to the public on Monday nest.

The Countess de Persigny (wife of the late am-
bassador of France) has team apartments at Claridge's
Hotel, where the countess will reside daring her stay in
London, cad not at Farrance's Hotel, is announced in error
yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have arrived in
tows from Horsby Castle, accompanied by the Mama Lase
Foe.

The Marquis of Sligo is, it is understood, about
to form a matrimonial alliance with Mien Nugent, daughter
of Mr. Anthony A. Nugent, of Pallas, in the county Galway,
and Mater to Lady Burke, of Marble MIL

The Counters of hialmesbury has issued cards for
an assembly on Monday eveni4 next, in Whitehall-gardens.
Lord Ravensworth and family have left Ravens-
worth Castle, end ar. teed at his lordship's residence, Percy's
Cross, Waltun-green, for the season.

Lady de Dunstanville has arrived at her resi-
dence in Charles-street, from visiting the Earl and Countess
of Morley, in Devoirthire.
The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait have
arrived at London House, St. James's-squat*, from the
Pekoe, Fulham, for the season.
The Count and Countess de Vaillet have taken
their departure from the Bransaick Hotel, Bt. James's,
for the Continent.

Sir Clifford and Lady Constable have left Cla-
ridge's Hotel, for Burton Constable, neer Hull.

Lieut.-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, G.C.8.,
16th Lancers, has '•rived In town from Agh►da Hall,
county Cork.
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Norton have arrived at
their home to Msnelleld-street fur the seam, from Elbn
Manor, Notts.

The Bishop of London end Mrs. Tait have arrived
at London-house, St. James's-square, from the Palma, Ful-
ham, for the season.

The marriage of Mr. Greville Vernon, son of the
Right Hon. Vernon Smith, late President of the Board of
Control, with Miss Cockerel!, step-daughter of Ws Excel-
lency the Earl of Eglintoun, was solemnised on Thursday, In
the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle in the presence of a
distinguished party. At one o'cloCk the bride, leaning on
the arm of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, entered the
chapel, and was conducted to the altar, where the bride-
groom, attended by his beet man, Mr. R. Curtis, had 'thready
taken his place. The bride, who looked remarkably well,
wore a dress of rich white satin, trimmed with two flounces
of Brussels point; a veil of the ems costly materiel, and
wreath and bouquet of orange blossom. The ceremony was
performed by the Venerable the Archdeacon of Raphoe,
who was 'misted by the Very Rev. the Den of the Chapel
Royal The bride was given away by his Excellency the
Berl of Eglintoun. The bridal pair will pass the honey-
moon emong the dairying scenery of Killerney.

The Consecration of the Bishop of Calcutti, will
take place In Westminster Abbey, we believe, on Amend=
Day; and Dr. Vaughan, Head Hadar of Harrow, will
preach the consecration earsses.—Diners.

(FLOM L..! NIOWell GAZITTE.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 14.—The Queen
Irma this dap pleaded to confer the honour of knighthood
upon John Baraard Ryles, Esq., one of the judges of her
Majesty's Court of Common Pleas.
FORRION-OYVICE, APRIL 12.—The Queen has
been graciously pleased to appoint Frederic Devotee Orme,
Req., now her Majesty's ChargE d'Affaires and Cassel-
Cienstal to the Republic of Bolivia, to be her Majesty's
Clargi d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republic of
Venezuela.

131.C116HOHAII PALACE, MARCH 23.—His Royal
}Heinen the Prince Consort has bees pleased to appoint
James Monotieff Arnott, Req., F.R.S., to be surgeon in or-
Maas y to his Royal Highness, in the room of Benjamin
Travers, Req., deceased.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMO-
TIONS IN TIM CIVIL SERVICE

Committee of Council on Education, Science and
Art Department :—Macleod of MacLeod baa been sppointed
anaLttant-secretary; Mr. Edward Stanley Poole has been ap-
pointed chief clerk; Mr. Wykeham Deverell and Mr. George
Francis Dancombe have bees appointed first clam clerks;
Mr. William Matchwick has been appointed assistent-keeper
of the Educational Museum at South Kensington. Bank of
England :—A vacancy to the Three per Cent. Consol office
has been ceased by the death of Mr. Richard Parries. Cus-
toms :—Mr. James Les has been appointed a clerk in the
Long Room, et Liverpool; Mr. Thomas Otd has been ap-
pointed a clerk at Perth ; Mr. James T. Hendley has been
appointed principal coast officer at Malden (Burnham) ;
Mr. John A. Legge has been promoted front seventh to
Math class clerk for general Stainer, Load= • Mr. Fre-
derick H. M. Walker has been promoted inn eighth
to seventh clam clerk for general Staines, London.
East Indisa.—Mr. H. A. Mangle, has been appointed to
officiate as Bret afieletant to the acoonntant-general to the go-
vernment of India, and secretary to the mint committee at
Calcutta, pre foes. during the oe of Mr. B. F. Har-
rison, sent on special service to Madras. Mr. 8. 0. Wyatt
has been appointed to official* as second assistant, end Mr.
G. W. Kellner as third assistant to the accountant-general
to the government of India. Mr. D. Simpson has been 1T-
E:111W deputy-commisioner of the fleet class lo the Pen-
h. Mr. E. Brandreth, Mr. P. 8. Melvin, and Captain C.
. Farrington have been appointed deputy commtrionern
of the drat ohms in the Panjeub. Lieut. J. E. Commit and
Mr. R. Egerton have been sppoin ted deputy commissioners
of the third else the Panjaub. Lieut. W. M.Neite, Mr.
C. P. Elliott, Captain J. Pendell, and Lieutenants H. Hes-
ston, 0. Bettye, and H. Mackenzie have been appointed
first close anoints/at commisionere In the Ponjeub. Mr. B. C.
Bayley, magistrate and collector of Azimgarh has been ap-
pointed to officiate as deputy-secretary to the government of
the north-western provinces. Mr. F. B. Outset bas been
appointed junior assistant-seeretary to the government of the
north-western provinom.—Ciell &evict Casette.

BISHOP GOBAT AM) FIANNA HADOB.—We under-
sand that the Hanna Hadab Papers, by W. HOlOll4l Hint,
Hag., UM celebrated painter, ere la the pew, sad will be oat
es seaa at they can be printed. Mr. Haat was In Jerusalem
at the erne of the marriage of Hanna Heath, a
lloelsen, by the bishop's opocial limas, and ta now grilM
the world one of the most extraordinary episodes of
eecleaketkel history.

CATITAL PAWL ONi MULLING DAL .'
TAMA; APRIL 145. Adialliong OM payeasat, MN;
aft by alma debts, 919; 1014 Mao

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EYZNIXO.

I am sorry to say that the public is about to be
shut out from half—and that the best half—of the
Tuileries gardens. A line is to be drawn from the
iron gate facing the Rue 29 millet to a point on the
opposite aide, where a corresponding gate will be
made abutting on the quay. Ihe gates on either
side of the gardens near the Pavilions de Fiore and
de Marsan will be closed, and all the space between
them and the line above mentioned will be added to
the reserved garden. The new space thus appro-
priated will be laid out u • jordin d rAnglaise,
and the view of the palace will be shut out by
clumps of trees; so that the Emperor and Empress
and the Imperial Prince may take exercise under
their windows without being stared at by the
people. It is natural enough that they should wish
to do so, but the new scheme is a great innovation
upon the very system with regard to royal
palaces which the French have heretofore made it
their boast to contrast with that followed in Eng-
land. The mutilation of the Tuileries will certainly
be very unpopular. Till 1830 the public were
allowed to walk up to the very windows of the
palace. Louis Philippe made the present reserved
garden, but that is only a narrow strip of ground of
which the public have almost the full enjoyment,
because it is only cut off from the rest of the
ground by a low iron railing, which they lean over
to look at the shrubs and flowers. Moreover, Louis
Philippe always allowed the public to walk through
the heart of the palace (the Pavillon de l'Horloge)
to the Place du Carronsal. Nevertheless a con-
siderable stir was made about the encroachment
upon popular privileges. Tongues are not so free
as they were then, but people will only think the
more. It is very doubtful whether the Emperor is
well advibed in making the Tuileries a more com-
fortable private residence by destroying its national
and traditional character. The works have already
commenced. The famous terrace, which runs
parallel with the Seine, is to be levelled between the
new line of demarcation and the Pavillon de Fiore.
This moaning at eleven o'clock crowds of people
were =need at seeing the little Imperial Prince in
the reserved garden, scooping up sand with a
wooden spade, and piling it in a go-cart drawn by a
footman. In time coming his imperial highness will
play in private.
The King of Wurtemberg, whose approaching
visit to Paris has been spoken of, will leave Statt-
gardt on May 13. The Queen of Holland will, it is
announced, leave the Hague on the 19th, arrive at
Stuttgardt on the 21st, stay there till May 6, and
arrive in Paris on May 10.
M. Brogniart, chef d'escadron of artillery, has been
appointed by the Emperor to the command of the
military mission in Persia. It is worthy of remark
that appointments of this kind are now for the first
time made by the government. During Louis Phi-
lippe's reign the French officers who accepted ser-
vice in Persia were 'track out of the army list.
The Chalons camp, about the formation of which
doubts have been lately expressed, from considera-
tions of economy, will now, it is said, consist only
of troops of the line.
M. A. Hausmann, formerly chancellor of the
French legation in China, is appointed French
consul at the Cape of Good Hope.
The Bourse has been heavy throughout the day.
An article in the Constitutionnel, arguing that peo-
ple ought to wait with patience for a revival in bu-
siness after the crisis of last year, produced an effect
precisely the reverse of what was intended. The
Bente fell sc. both for cash and account, closing at
69fr. 30c. and 69fr. 40c. Mobilier fell Bfr. 75c.
Railways were greatly depressed. Southern fell
12fr. frOc.; Western, 7fr. 60c.; and the other lines
from 2fr. 50c. to 6fr.

The late charge d'affainm of France in Persia,
M. de Hobineau, has arrived at Marseilles from the
East.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

TURIN, APRIL 14.

M. Panto spoke against the Deforests bill, and
MM. Perini and &lila in favour of it. M. Brofferio,
whose speech against the measure was looked for-
ward to with intense interest, roee at half-put four,
and was " left speaking."

NAPLES, Aran. 14.

The formation of a camp at Gaeta is seriously
spoken of. Conat Trapani, the king's brother, has
resigned the command of the Royal Guards, in con-
sequence of a difference with his Majesty.