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TOM promulgation by Mr. Bala= of the spear
details of his plan of Reform brings to as 'Kudrna',
sad the many alarmist rumours of what that
seheme was to onatain. The whole fabric of tenor
whisk peen and journalists, ex-ministers and their
siabordinates, have been labouring diligently to raise,
crumbles down, and, instead of the outlandish and
destructive moaner we were told to fear, we have
only the geod eld English Franchise, the familiar
and widely-approved method of Silent Voting,
and a revision of the Schedules of 1832
within limits which, in some respects, an
less extensive than those which certain influential
panicmongers affected to prescribe. The Member
for Birmingham repudiates the idea of . advocatieg
4Of proposing a measure far in advance of public
opinion," and declarei himself desirous rather of
. going along with and acting in harmony with that
. opinion." In this spirit he adopts, as the first
element of his measure, the 101. Occupation Fran-
chise in counties. For that proposition Lord JOlllf
Roseau. and Lard PaLitzairroN, Sir Jamie Gee-
max and Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord Aaaanrair and
Lord 011eJtVILLII, the Duke of Nawearns and Lord
Lenatowx 2, have already voted as Cabinet Ministers ;
and the House of Commons, by a decisive majority
last eassion, declared itself in favour of the proposal.
The County Members of the Legislature already
number 232 ; and by Mr. Below's schedules of re-
distribution they would be increased to 278. These
he would in tutu* have elected therefore by consti-
tuencies already approved of alike by Whig and
Tory statesmen, and by a decided preponderance of
votes in the present Hone of Commons. With the
six Members for the Universities be does not pro-
pose to meddle; we bare therefore 284 seats about
which it cannot even be pretended that any novel
change is proposed. Public opinion has been un-
mistakeably pronounced in favour of a 101. County
Franchise ; and Mr. BRIGHT but conforms to he be-
hests in taking this as one of the main pillars of the
system he would rear.

For the Town Franchise he is able to plead still
higher authority. Household or Ratepaying Suffrage
is that which was advocated eloquently by Mr. Fox,
propounded deliberately by the late Earl Oster, and
zealously recommended by Lord Donwsn—as the
old traditional right and allege of the realm, which
the usurpations of bad times had alone placed in
abeyance. Never during the last thirty years has
the claim fur its resuscitation been suffered to die
out. Although in a minority, the earnest reformers,
including most of the representatives of the
wealthiest and most enlightened constituencies, have
in successive Parliaments reiterated their appeal
in its favour. The .£5 Franchise proposed by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL in 1832 was attacked by some and sup-
ported by others on the ground that in a great many
places it was nearly equivalent to Household Suffrage ;
and to that preposition of a 61. Franchise the mast
conservative of Whig politicians were then assenting
parties, in their capacity of members of the adminis-
tration by whine chief it was propounded. As
being more equable, intelligible, and comprehensive,
we have at all times expressed our preference for
Liability to Rating as the basis of the suffrage above
the 61. limit, and we are glad to find Mr.
BRIGHT adhering to that unexceptionable and
I time-honoured principle. We do not share his.
dislik' • of Auxiliary Franchises ; on the contrary.
they would be exceedingly useful to gather up the
crumbs of intelligence that everywhere lie scattered
in the great homes of industry, and which we should
be sorry to see lost. Bat upon this as upon various
other points the Member for Birmingham will, we
trust, show himself open to further consideration;
and from some intimations thrown out towards the
ekes of his speech at Bradford we doubt not he will be
so. The Ballot naturally follows the enunciation of
the contemplated provisions of his Bill respecting
the suffrage. He declares his unshaken conviction
that the concession of this great guarantee of popular
freedom, safety, and virtue, cannot be much longer
delayed, • conviction wherein we are rare that the
overwhelming preponderance of liberal opinion
throughout the country confidently participates.
Finally, we are presented with eleven Schedules,
in which are arranged the Parliameatary Boroughs'
of the United Kingdom classified according to their
population and rateable property ; the newly arisen
Towns which claim to be enfranchised ; the Cities and
Boroughs which are entitled to an increase of mem-
bers ; and the counties whose wealth and inhabitants
ought to have additional representatives. We
are not about to enter into a detailed analysis
of Mr. BRIGHT'S map of re-distribution. To
• certain extent his sentence of oondemaa-
tics of small boroughs was forestalled by
the measures of 1832 and 1834. But in-
stead of a minimum test of five thousand inha-
bitants he takes eight thousand, and proposes to die-
franchise wholly sixty-eight country towns which
now send nieety-six members to Parliament ; while
he would take from thirty-four others one of the
two members they now Mara : in all, one hundred
and thirty seats. which would have to be re-allotted.
Considering the amount of unconvertible resistance
widish will from the first be thus compactly arrayed
against the scheme, and the numerous existing inte-
rests whose hostility to its other provisions
must be counted on, we are not surprised
at the guarded tone in which its author
speaks of his anticipations as to its success.
A great deal of the opposition he must
prepare to encounter as far u this part of
his measure is concerned, will arise undoubtedly from

I the unqualified jartialit7 he avows lee the gent'
tows. To BONN he weld give throe members, to
Sees' four, to a few siryand to the Tows Hamlets
ea many as eight. All OD details of redistribution
must firm the subject of separate discussions. Mr.
BRIGHT does not propound any theory whatever
founded on arithmetical logic, and friends and foes
must alike consent to debate the multiplied questions
that will arise between towns of different classes
upon the broad but somewhat undefinable ground of
practical expediency. For ourselves, we confess we
are not prepared to look with any extreme
jealousy upon the pretensions of thickly populated 1
counties to a reasonable share of the seats about to
be sequestered. If the 101. Franchise and the Ballot
will give us independent agricultural constituencies,
we see no reason why they should not send as useful
members to the Legislature as manufacturing towns.
There is no denying that many of the doomed
boroughs are at present virtually seats identified
with the agricultural interest. Their fspdt in our
eyes is not that they are so, but that they have no
constituencies worthy of the name. It may be that
certain of them, notwithstanding all that has been
said to the contrary, might be made the centre, is in
Scotland, of • group of towns sufficiently populous
and wealthy to furnish the materials in the
aggregate of a fair constituency. There are, no
clout, many instances where no materials for such
an inclusion or expansion can be reasonably said to
exist; and in such cases, if the county in which they
are situate does not deserve to have an additional
member, the representation ought, undoubtedly, to
be transferred to some of the large towns. But we
set less store upon the items of re-arrangement
than upon securing a good franchise, and a whole
some mode of voting; this, we are persuaded, the
country values chiefly as the essentials *fan efficient
and adequate Bill, and to the attainment of these
we are bound to say we think the advocacy of Mr.
BRIGHT will hays verymetseially contributed.

Hem Marasres Oovarmust have at length re-
solved to comply with the prayer which both }louses of
Parliament presented in their last session, and abolish
all the Services for the State Holidays, with the excep-
tion of that appointed for the Anniversary of her
Manirre's Accession. A Royal Warrant under
the Sign Manual, which we publish in another
column, revokes the authority under which the
" Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving " for the
deliverance of King hailill from the Gunpowder
Plot ; the " Form of Prayer with Fasting " in com-
memoration of the " Martyrdom " of CHARLICa I. ; and
the "Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving" for the
" unspeakable mercy wonderfully completed " in the
restoration of King CHALLIS 11., have hitherto been
used on the dth of November, the 30th of January,
and the 29th of May. The nee of these services in
the churches and chapels of the Establishment,
whether parochial or collegiate, will henceforth
be illegal, as violating the Act of Uniformity ;
and is moreover expressly forbidden by the new
Warrant, and the prayers themselves are not
henceforth to be printed and published with or
annexed to the Prayer-book.
Public opinion respecting these services has been
so unanimous, that probably the only feeling the pre-
sent measure will excite is one of wonder that it has
been so long delayed. As we now see, there was no
difficulty in the way. It was not with those ser-
vices, sa with some integral parts of the Prayer-
book, which offend the faith and conscience of de.
vont men, bat which it is supposed cannot be
amended because they have been adopted by Convo-
cation, sanctioned by Parliament, and confirmed by
Royal Authority. For although the observance of
the three days rests upon Acts of Parliament, the
authority for using the services is neither more nor
less than that which appoints fasts, prayers, or
thanksgivings in times of general calamity or glad-
ness. A stroke of the pen gave them legality at
the commencement of each reign, and a stroke of the

pen now redaoes them to the value of curiosities
hardly interesting even to the historian.
Nobody will regret their abrogation. The High
Churchman will be pleased to get rid of the intruded
pages, which recalled by their origin the power of
the secular Goverhment in Church matters. The
Low Churchman will see with satisfaction his
Prayer-book purged of party politics. Protestants
of all communions will rejoice that ministers of a
reformed communion are no longer required to persist
year by year in impious perversions of the ancient
l►nguage of saints and psalmists, and to apply to a
treacherous Sovereign titles reserved in the Bible for
the Diruex MAJESTY. And decent and loyal people of
every class will be glad that her MAJESTY'S authorisa-
tion can no longer be pleaded for the use in religions
edifices of foul and intemperate modes of speech
such as would not have been tolerated in any
assembly met for secular pm poses. Let the services
go then, and let the acts of the Isorses and
CHAELESES whom they commemorate, be left to the
judgment of history, unprejudiced by party prayers,
which have been tampered with by orally monarchs,
and were designed by their authors leas for the ear of
Heaven than for that of the people. The forms
now abolished, never adapted to become instruments
of devotion, have long ceased to serve any purpose
of policy. Religion, decency, and common sense
join to approve the act by which they are at length
consigned to oblivion.

Ebt Court.

Wllll/801t, Jan. 11.
The Primes Alice dined with hie Majesty yes-
terday. SU Hon. Mrs. Biddulph eel Medor
R. 1., bad the honour of being invited. The party. also in-
cluded the following visitors, who arrived at the Ord* in
the afternoon :—Tlas Marquis of Rueter, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, the Ladies Conatance and Alice
Villiers, the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, and Major-Ormeral
Sir F. Williams.

The bend of the Grenadier Guards played during dinner
the following
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Illoyerbeer.
Mania, " Simpao %wale " Ilsodelmohn.
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Her ILajeaty's private band afterwards performed In the
drawing-room the following pints :

INstons. No. I
Bootboven.
Aocionto sod Rood*
Hammel.
Noloodoo. It*OtooN" . ...... (Nod.
Oltor Us& Nantl Mars Duke of Soul Cobouft.
The Qom and Prince Consort walked in the grounds of
the Castle this morning.
Prince's Alice accompanied by the Ladies Constance sad
Alias Villiers rode in the riding-house.
Printer Helena sad Princess Louisa took a carriage
drive, and visited the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore.

The Dachas of Heat visited the Queen at the Castle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official reaidenoe of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. H. Disraeli, the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl
of Hardwick., Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of
Mahnesbury, Sir E. Sulwer Lytton, General Peel,
Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon.
7. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.

Yesterday a meeting of the Council of India was
held at the fleet India House, when Colonel Henry
Marion Durand, C. 8., of the Bengal Rngineers, was
elected a member of the Council of India.

It is understood that her Majesty, accompanied
by Prhtoe Albert, Iral be premed a► the opening of the Wel-
lington College, near Sindhurst, as Saturday week, the 29th
but.

The Prinoe and Prinoma Edward of Saxe-Weimar
ars expected at their mansion in Portland-place, to-day,
from a tour of noire.

The Duke of Richmond will leave town on Friday,
to jolt' the family circle ►t Goodwood.

The Earl and Countess of Abergavenny hare left
Biding Manor, Heat, for Ea Idge Cade* Tunbridge Wells.
The Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray
have arrived at Longhair' Home for the seases.

Turfy Blanche Balfour hu left the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood, for Nrith.

Colonel and Lady Jana Minds', accompanied by
Lady Caroline Charter* have arrived at Claridge's Hotel,
Gem Stoke-Rochford, Grantham.

. - --
A grand fancy and fall dress ball, for the benefit
of the Brighton Dispensary, ours off is the Royal Pavillon
last evening. Although on this occasion the attendance fell
short Qf that which graced the Hospital ball at an earlier
period of the meson, the reunion in other respects was com-
pletely encoessfal.

- ilia annual ball in aid of the fends of the
Hotel and Tavern Keepers' Institution, which has for its
object to assist distreued hotel and tavern-keepers, cooks,
sad waiters, members of the ismitution, as well as their
widows and children, takes pleas on Monday evening next,
the 21th Met., at Willie's itootos, King-street, Bt. James's.

. .
At a recent meeting of the Chapter of Ely
It wag agreed to undertake, u won u possible, the restora-
tion of the octagon and lantern of the cathedral aa a fitting
memorial of the real, energy, and liberality of Dean Pos-
e-Jar, in the restoration of the fabric.

A number of letters are published in the Dublin
Poet of last evening from member, of pediment and other
Influential parties In reply to the circular Invitation to attend
the meeting of landlords on the 27th inst. Mr. Bagwell, the
member for Clonmel, and Mr. Loftus Bland promise to be
present, but with a view of proposing amendments to the
resolutions. Mr. Hugh Morgan Tait', formerly member for
Westmeath, and Mr. Beard Osborne peremptorily refuse to
have mythic, to do with the matter.

"The Emperor of the French," says a Paris cor-
respondent of the Nord, "is about to increase the number
of his receptions. The high functionaries of the state end
the ladles of their families sat be received on Tuesdays end
Thursdays. On the MOO days a;11 be given a grand dinner.
to which an the wires of general °Moors will be imocoesively
Invited with their husbanda."

The Ducker of Puma left her capital on the 13th
for Venice, la company with Primer Margaret, intending to
pass some days with the Coast de Chambord end the
Duchess de Beery.

Queen Christina, the Duke of Munroe, two of
their children, and a suite of thirty-three parsons, arrlved at
Manillas two days ago on the it way to Rome.

A writer in the Press declares that, with the ex-
°optic,* of a certain clique, "which seems to monopolise the
distribution of all the patronage," Lord Derby has not a
mingle supporter in the House of Commons who has not
given utterance to some such remark as the follos'ng:—
" What an extraordinary thing it is that such end such a
pleas, or command, or judicial situation, should be given by
the present government to a strong political opponent :"
This is declared to be the cam with Lord Maloserbuty's
diplomatic selections; in the selection of members of cons•
minions; and, "though last not least, of all strong political
partisans who have been conspicuous daring the last twenty
pars, forsooth, Sir Charles Trevelyan, the old Treasury
Whig partisan, is to be Governor of the Presidency of
Madras!" The writer concludas with salting, *Are the
supporters of Lord Derby's policy, who have eat sad toiled
for thirty years on the cold shore of Opposition, to be
ostracised by the dispensers of the patronage of the present
administration r

Masai Pacha, the general commanding at Ron-
stock, and the noosed son of Rashid Pacha, baldest perished
aocidentally. His was fakir* a drive in en open euriege,
when the horses dulled off at a furious rata, and the general
was thrown oat. He wee thrown under the wheeLe of •
heavily laden cart, which passed over his body and killed
him on the spot. He was the brother of Ali Ghalib Pachs,
who was lately drowned la the Bosphorus.
The Paris correspondent of the Manchester
Ossafeis writes :—" I have rarely KM inch • unanimity of
opinion on any question se on thin bare chance of a war.
Three nights ago, I had the pleesure of listening to an attack
made by M. Thiess upset the notion of anything of the kind,
and I bed occasion to en clearly that long silence has not
damped the orator's energy. M.Thiers eras more than banes
imperialist, ert you are aware, and has 'loupe been the
ardent promoter of a warlike policy. Well, no one have I
yet heard so uncompromisingly condemn Use idea of • war—
so lucidly prove its inevitably fatalism. to Franca—aa did M.
Them the other evening. He brought all Ma historical
and strategical knowledge to bear upon the psint, and
showed how impossible it would be for France to escape
defeat, unless she could begin the contest with 400,000 sol-
di r., Laskin those she must keep in Algeria, and those she
must retain is Fenn."

In the &mend Chamber of Holland, three days
ego, a bill was presented regulating the conditions cm which
foreign laminas companies may be authorised in Rolland
One of the stipulations to be insisted on is that each corn-
;way keeps a special agent in the country to represent it.
A letter from Munich of the 13th, in the Norma-
ism Owreepsnotepet, describes a manifsstation of the popular
emitimosta which occurred at a theatre of that capital an
the previous eight; it nye :—" The rims performed ins
lhet Wilt of tAe Great Mentor of 'Whiz. At a pumas
whore the BieMor Frederick 111. of Brandenburg haughtily
mjeotathe proposals of the French and Polish envoys, and
where It Is oeM that Prussia I. the sword of Germany and
AIWAa Its shield, a unanimous shout of enthusiasm band
forth tram the speetatom, and it was with great difficulty
that sufficient silence could be restored to permit the ma-
Unmake of the play.••

A letter from Vancouver's Island says :—" I Mr*
Molted. grog may plum, greet sad ores. 1, but this is tits
ad place I emestotor to hove found without a mbar of
Ms long robs. Is tho Firedog' a bisming or as evil P
lawyers us does °moldered grist mils, and I am reedy Os
Admit that the shuns Is sometimes well-founded ; but I hoe
dr old mylog Yam% that they an memory Thin
mot M Victoria is supplied by Me courtesy of Um Chid
Smile* allowbg parties, litigants, to ham 'drivers, who me
poludtled peel Mtn.% In his court by Moir taking powers
et Mimes, frees their clients to appear der than. The duty
hes hitherto beet performed by two Amok= citizens, law
yam frees Bea Premeleco, who I hope an having whet is
commeely ogled la the elemisel leagmage of the place they
I gene *OM was a doe lime et "

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PASSPORT REGULATIONS IN FRANCE.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the following
article upon passport regulations:
"The government of the Emperor has recently
decreed in the matter of passports various measures
which have had the effect not only of re-establishing
upon all parts of our frontiers the facilities of
communication consecr►ted by custom, and which
had been temporarily suspended, but also of granting
new favours to French and foreign travellers. It
will not be uninteresting to recall one by one the
measures which bear witness to the interest
attached by the government to the extension of in-
ternational relations.

" It is known that by virtue of the general legisla-
tion, Ist, no French traveller can leave the territory
of the empire without being provided with a pass-
port abroad ; 2nd, no foreign traveller is admitted
into France without being provided with a passport
given him by the competent authority of his country,
and vise for each journey by a French diplomatic or
consular agent. At a great many parts of
our frontier of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Ger-
many, and Belgium, the passport abroad is
not required of the inhabitants of the frontier
towns who have frequent family or business inter-
oeurse with the couatries beyond the borders, and
who are known to the police authorities. These
load facilities are extended to foreigners residing on
the borders, who may in turn be admitted into
France without regular passports. Wherever the
. . . .

administration bas aeemed that these measures of
tolerance will not imperil the grave interests of
police and public safety wended to it, it has hastened
to authorise them, taking care that the special com-
misioners apply them with discretion, and it allows
these functionaries great latitude. By the terms
of the law the passports abroad could only be
given by prefects. In order to facilitate the delivery
and to save our fellow-countrymen vexatious and
expensive delays, the Minister of the Interior, by a
regulation of the 22nd of October, conferred, until
a new order should be issued, upon sub-prefects re-
siding in the ports and frontier towns the power of
granting passports.
u The communications between France and Great
Britain have been made the subject of special
favours. By virtue of a regulation of the
20th of November, 1868, the largest facili-
ties, amounting in certain cases to a com-
plete exemption from passport and the visa,
have been granted to the inhabitants of the English
or French coast who constantly pass from one
country to the other by means of the regular steam-
boat service. Moreover, Frenchmen desirous of
making a short excursion to England an embark
with a simple home passport, at the cost of two
francs, delivered or cid by the prefestord authority,
instead of being compelled to take • foreign
passport, which would cost ten francs. This is a
great saving of time and expense. Finally, by •
regulation of the 16th December, 1858, the Minister
of the Interior has revoked for French or foreign
travellers entering our territory the necessity for the
diplomatic or consular visa, each journey. Pre-
viously, in 1866, under the administration of Count
de Persigoy, it was conceded that the visa should
be considered valid for one year, the legal duration
of the French passport. This indulgence was re-
called in 1858, in consequence of political circum-
stances, which rendered the strictest passport regu-
lations imperative. The department of the interior
has not hesitated to re-establish it when it
has seemed to be again practicab.e ; and it is happy
to have been able, in concert with the department of
foreign affairs, to relieve travellers from an incon-
venient and costly formality which was the subject
of constant complaints.
"Such are, in fine, the arrangements which have
been recently made by the Emperor's orders to
facilitate international relations. The principles of
the legislation upon passports in France, as in
other countries, are very rigorous. They ought, in
fact, to provide for the special necessities which re-
salt from a disturbed interior or a state of war, but
they can be softened in the application by means of
exceptions and exemptions, which testify to the
safety and confidence of the government. Now, in
presence of the regulations of the 22nd of October,
20th of November, and the 16th of December, which
have just been enumerated, and of the general in-
structions of tolerance which have been transmitted
to alt the frontiers, it may be affirmed that at no
period has the execution of the laws and regulations
epos passports been more comprehensi% e—more
liberal—than it is to-day."

ITALY.

NAPLES.

The Paris Moniteur of this morning announces
that the eighty-nine political prisoners whose sen-
tences have been commuted by the King of Naples
to banishment will bo dispatched to the United
States. These measures of clemency have been
brought to the knowledge of the French Govern-
ment by that of Naples itself.