The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-16 00:00:00

ties ihr bolsi browbeaten, bet he will sot stand
being sniffed at. Ultimately the Jul head that the
fact' did not peeve that there had been condonation
in Sir C. CalsawiLL's tense of the tam, and the
husband succeeded in dissolving his marriage. In
the particular ease no one could regret to find the
Judge's exposition of the law sustained, but it is
difficult to avoid the conclusion that, u a
general statement of the doctrine of condonation,
it is open to objection. Condonation, if pleaded as a
bar to the suit for a divorce or a dissolution of mar-
riage, must rarely mean such a remission of the
wife's offence es to preclude the husband from con-
tinuing his suit. If, with a knowledge of the facts
en which the suit is founded, he remits the offence
which is its ground, that surely is enough for the
rof precluding the suit from going on.
lewever, is a matter on which the Court of
Appal will have •o pronounce, and the probable
isportases of the point as a guide to future deci-
sions readers it quite as well that it should be put
in a wares of being conclusively settled.

Ms

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13D

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(sy ALACTIUC ♦ND UANIZNATIC4IIAZA 12UADIAPIL)

EDINBURGH, Tmrherhs Mamma.

Last night Mr. Bright addresacd a meeting of the
Inhabitants of Edinburgh, celled tngether to consider the
question of parliamentary reform. The meeting took plea)
in the Municipal-hall, one of the largest public rooms in
Edinburgh, but It proved totally inadequate to contain the
rut crowds who had amenthied to leer the great orator, and
thousands were unable to procure admission.

Mr. D. M.Laxati, bmillemin-law of Mr. Bright, was called
to the ohair,ind briefly enmati cod the objects of the meeting.
He was about to eater es He general quanta, whet he wee
obliged to give way to arias for Mr. Bright, who whereupon
arose amidst tremandoss chewing to address the audience.
Mr. BIi.IGHT, who seemed at the onset to be suffering
from hoarseness, which did not improve aa he proceeded, said
that he had not come to Edinburgh with the ides that he
could enlighten them as to their political rights, but became
he had received an levitation which he did not feel MINN
at liberty to decline. He had come to speak on the pandas
pedieneentary reform. After some general renedes ma
eill of a similar character which he dammed id
Mathimeher, Mr. Bright and he trusted that the 111111110
the peat ministry would not be like the bed ,
the ambit beet, very little meat and a peat
deal id tthileeldeth. The feeling for reform was
loaded ups the steady growth of public opinion,
The bed Mlll was tel of great remits, sad the greatest
result was tide, that it settled for ever the question whether
the oomatitution required that the representative* of the people
should be a *sudsiest sad sham one, or whether they
should ham the right to require from parliament
that fair and fall representation which he hoped
the meeting wee there to demand. (Great awing)
He did not think it wee possible to maintain a law which
shut out from the enjoyment of political rights four-ilitha or
Iva-sixths of the grown mom of the tinted Kingdom. No,
he proposed to take a wider and, be thought, a more rational
bode then the puma la franchise, and which he thought
would be ash, and for all purposes good and honest,
representation; instead of the tlenpounda rating proposed
by lard John Russell to 1862, he would prefer that every
man who was an occupier and who we* rated for the relief
of the poor should be sodded to have a vote. (Cheers.)
This was something simple, equal, and broad on which to
base the franchise, and it wee moreover one recommended by
its practiall results In English municipal electkes, and be
thought the manner in which the people of Bruised had
exercised their tights at elections was sufficient to show that
they might be freely and safely entrusted with the right
of electing members of the Home of Commons.
He thought he could show a plan which would besetishotory
to ell memo who wished for an honest parliamentary re.
form, and he had in his pommies all the statistics and all
the details which indicated those cluster. of boroughs that
, were more entitled to political power, and more or less
im-
portant chinas. Referring in ironical terms to certain
articles in the Time newspaper on the subject of rekem,
he remarked that the Timm which always went
with the strongest, we now &Wag why be (Mr.
Bright) did sot give the details of the measure of re-
firm which he was preparing on behalf of the people of Eng-
land. He salted, in return, why the Dews, which wee always
writing about reform, did not insist that Lord Palmerston
when that nobleman was known to he preparing • measure,
should state the details of his proposed bill. (Hear, hear.)
All that he (Mr. Bright) attempted to do whin he addressed •
public meeting was to make his audience understand, in the
plainest language he oould use, what were the
principles on which be thought the country should
have a fair measure of parliamentary reform. Re-
fining to the speech of Mr. Newdegate at War-
wickehire, in which that gentleman Instated on a larger county
representation than at premed, he (Mr. Bright) mid, the re-
sult of such a course would be to yet further estrange the
feeling of the people from the House of Leeds. He would
like to know if the House of Lords repressated the land, and
the tenantry on the land, or did it repented only the puma '
Interests of the radividuale of whisk AM hems Ins
compared f (Hear, hear.) If it were edmitied
that the home had sloop repremsted pest ter-
ritorial interests, then it tree °Dumpiest to defend it.
Inch • noted titters might for • keg Inn to aome be ta-
lented in the eosin; but, if any Bra said Mist the four
hundred tempers' peers represseted the fedivithal Yemen
only debate four hendred peers and thek bellies, be Posed
the eminence of the House of Lords ea a met peouritroe
feundation. Thies were four hushed INN &OM, net by the
people. ening thr a right to diem% sod bare were thirty
roll lone of dio perk d the Vold Itorlon, ad time
bur behind WWI* oda Owe timeelyee whist the
.111 of es sally - maim, ma pear sear
"mos Ihir heidm. the basisimt mei esselliat
maimispieriby the repeematatless of the mph. Porn.)
Niko boa. amber for Warerlekehiro got op a elegem far
more ono, vambirs it would forrhitty hod to a distend
Ibr eqoel iota& districts. Nov be W sot yet wart a
eagle weed an the gawks of eleolsrol disidete, lesesse

Cbt Court.

OSBORNE, Dec. 15.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included
the Prises sad Prisons d Isialaps, Wesel Foster, eons-
issadiss the istglasses se the oath-west district, end the
Rev, Cheep Prelims.

A deportee al the seibject of municipal borough bounda-
ries estralca bed as baterview with Mr. Ileiontary Walpole
rativiar at the Ilesrace. The deputed's reseisted of—
Nem Imo, dm mar, r, Mr. Skirl idwards, Mr.
Alders. Draper, and the hews art hem !Wrath, the
wryer, Mr. J. B. Meremies, sad Ms. Alterman Carr ;
her Cherhar the maw, Mr. C. L. Fraitt. the Itmeordw,
and the Ire cler, and M. W. I. Welty. M.P., and the
Rea. 1. J. Tailwasehe, M.P.
Deepeobee were reeered at tba Colonial-dß°e yesterday
hem the irrentre efTwernia, South Searle, New Zea-
-1 Irk Labe's, ma Malta.

MAIRIAGI IN HUGH Ltvz.—(Tine DAY.)—This
monolos the umaritapo of her Ones the Dammam. Dodson
oillsmeastar, whlow of Ids lots OISCO tho Doke of Mon-
oloolor, with Stovosna Ardor Blookiroost. Bag. (son Cl
Arthur ettawassa Illookwood, rondamon usher to
bar Dfaisaty, wao solurdoodl at fft. George's-church,
Bomar-oquoro.

A letter from Tangiers, of December 7, announces
the arrival in that part of the Bu mine, with Prime Alfred
ea
beard. AU the foreign canals otailemail la the part
heisted their lags on the crania. Altar on enhance of
.late., the Prince leaded rod prresedwil to the loam of
lir. Soy, the Unita Cowl, who bed Gam ea beard la
mot him. The Froth Oreanl paid hie app to lie royal
Idginees ea he leaded ea the ray. H• nay stayed twenty-
'bar hone in Tangiers, sad Una laft is the Beryalna far
Oitioltair. The latter rays that the priarare amiable manners
and his good bonanisaaltip were the thine of general
adahsties.

The following are among the recent arrivals at
°Wands Perk Hotel —Lod' Caroline Russell, CoL Read,
Mr Henry Odder, Mr. Herbert larva, Mej arNorth,
Lard sad Lady Museaster sod the Boa. KW Pennington,
Coked Dylts, Mts. Dixon, Lod' Sidney, Colonel Chores,
Be,. Mr. North, Mr. sad Mr.. Knoll's, &o.

The Marquis de Lavalette hail left Fenton's Hotel
for Peels

The Counter Cutellae and family have arrived at
W Iletnewiek Hotel from Paris. The Keriele d'Almsay
sod the &roe Mom have arrived at the mow establasll-
amt.

Accounts from St. Petersburg state that the fever
of the Emprem Dowager bad abated, bat the cough sad ex-
pectoration still costiaos.
The Australian advice mention that Mr. David
Hughes, the solicitor who absconded ander baukraptoy a
sw months back with liabilities sad defalcations estimated
at 200,0001., had been arrested. He idled besot in the Had
Jacket, which arrived oat to eighty days, but the mall
' stsarsait having arrived tweaty-foar hours previously with
the mews of his eight, prompt measures were taken, and the
Mots of the property la his possemion—anly, it le believed,
shoat 6001.—was miss&

A letter from Berlin rays that a decision bee been
essestessely NON to is the Conseil of Ministers that a bill
for Oliabiligthig oiril reentiages shall be presented to the
Cheshire, sad the Prise Regent Ire gives him mesa
The bill will prevent erg yam from refacing to marry
divorced passe.
In the eosins of a dismasion in the Camber of
Dimities at the Her* a he days ago, the Minister of
Paths Worship wee asked what the government bad done at
Rome oat behalf of the Mortars fanny. H. imewerei that
though hawing that the isolated attics of a protestant Mate
of the mend order wooid prodom so West, it had still made
represestatione then la lamer of the priattple ef liberty of
ammiesee.

wee not an adv ocat; for o►rge for the make of change. AB
that he desired was that inch changes as were rerydred
conideteut with the great object they had in view
rhoold be kept within those great leadmerhe thet
ware already before than to the Institutions of the
eorintry, and he cenceived that the theory Mr. Heyde-
gate had propounded wee a Inure nlurs-dearearette theory
than say that had been propounded on a public platform foe
a length of time, and ow which must neoesearUy and very
speedily lead to a dump In the eartfkiden al the Howe of
Lards. Mr. Bright than pointed ma Me Wee and anthcelta.
Ore wordage that had boon bald in Maachorr, Hir-
minghas, and alirewhees, tut the nada* d vir
her r ea labors that the poopr rough
they al not aro rah fasontra, vein &remised
ea the corers. H. opprlal to Or wrists If tboy wished

A Naples letter of Saturday Lot says that the
metiege debt Priam Berl. the Messy et Bawds will
be teheriel by pray ea Jariarmy 14. NM thst as spays
yet taut asi saw et Melbutterle OM all OIL The sad=
et hruph It is NI& lame mein WWI/. Of • foctit•
Gmbh west se ibuiply elladitig Y 5 latasib. The arttlep
Y saw webs ef et wart, ettl lb. Zig trul Chum " beck
gym two!. airier. awl miatioly."

It is alrarli bowit that the English government
lest • Mob es do =weed Memo, Ws per, be do
d W wo• w dmilr pageboy ft Mem& both, pew,
mile obi& woe war auplek olio do rime ft-
Irmaril aw IMO moo, do imam el 11ia.." it is
sow Omsk be• atom Kr. Zeg • vaiesti• km. doily
onmeweei, mod lo• use MOO soeleiss, • lieo. a leepoi,
W odor arlealm Os Os Loam Zeelagieal Cloiess.

an extweeion of the ("kidder en storks se would
adroit a largo lesion of kw weekkg deers. (Criss of
"Ti., yes.") Did they intend to bog the linnohise as It
t (No. so.) Wal4 tiro km thought he hot a right to
Napkin at Om pukka WINN who hod we tido question 1
old they ware hr token, but that they ware n* thr his (Mr. 1
)bight's) reform. Ns tionstit that tory out law oohs
or who wrote on this Wink onglet It disarm it without
relennwo to his likings sr &Niko Is lay particular In- I
dividoi. The tootles ow a poi and a seism one, sad
iftt woo dhoeseed r seek he balis.d aro long that the
oragehry woad sees to • wry who bid .ddactory aman-
ita—a sompledua wbkb would beim keg he sodded by
pertiameat. (Goat tiowing.) H. abed Own to serg=e
du dein afeuds now to what It wee is Mt Thaw wore
ao-rioes end latorrostiene sow as st that Moe ; end was not
this owing to On growing intolligtoo, otneedeo, and
ektilinties d On serstri, end do bast atertaked
by the pooh tbed lbw win art *belly dieneepenbeil by the
lanktattere keen ISIS to 1846 t Aid pirdisalaat Is that a
wbielt repaid tho oorn lawn, be ottrasesd ouch et
lbw patty, der, sad on wejoped by the pock, and
in the ebeengse that we wished Is Os tegnmestation ha
dumbed to beep be the =skid lowkerlis ; wed warned by the
operionse of two yea tie* anesuro amid to moderate in its
staengtk, bat ft Mould be bresiatibly stow( to Ito naultradon.
(bomb= eleserbig, amid whisk the ktemenrabla
um nomad Al. seat, haring spoke upwards of en hoar
awl • hall)

Cheat preparation an Wag Made at the Palais
M Judos, Par* ere the bat* et 11. de Moetelemboree
appal, dr nat. Tibe Wake errearmseate of the
balks, hove bees ellered. ♦ private iltry is model!),
ismerved fee sissideatem

The Berliaaeneepondeat of the Brateels Indi-
iporkorse, Asti sews private thslikeds wiled have
jut tam passe st es tedium se the Osedinka
Mistakr, tad la wit& lis sitslisey, tartest with the
dmitai ski tisk isesitier-ii-Isk, took pmts. Arms ,
We ars somilassi k Gormay to re nimbus, sap rids
Imo tisk pan sesspailmas to eat assesiles—trlkmos
Pekes /fisksiskis. Aikidos Insister of Darts: K. as
—_. _ _

seat, tla Ithisard hap ALr.4 aszamy ; ;Fresh
diplormiss, Maims alms bos bon trimposatly mmolosed at
leim M. de Tailtipmak aml awry odor dahlia maim"
an d elan 1111 W .used Mire the saris in mama
diplomats solar is Ommemy."
Th. Archduke Fenilmand Maximilian has W-
ows am irmseray ammallorst the Cork Royal Yacht Club.
The Mawr &item, of Vienna, contains as
Immaria trilmams Moths to the Wow of the Whew of
the ammimmatan r ide may, the cot et Mar mote awl soar
timmatiame. dr aware sad wellies el the beams, to.
Y. Ballogb, a Hungarian, marts that he ham
simorpa to snare lir circle. awl he has just sent omits at
hie nark al WI wahjeot, which commie' mismata daps%
tic Iligegisay d UMW im Videos sad Pork, sad leas
barb d the Uadmeithe at Cambridge sad Oxford.
It has bets decided by the Imperial Commission
br mealenae the eaMegemest of Vireos that two asp seen

Vt. Pates, s member ol the London Rdorm Association,
then briefly addressed the asesting , and attar resolutions in
Amen of parliamentary rabna had beat adopted, the vast
emendelage quietly diepeseeL

74TAL 812111-1770 COLLISIOY.

GLASGOW, Wirmaana.r.

ghettoto alai be Wt. The artalhd Bars Theatre mai tie
Oros Boom ire so *mil that otateues eta airily et wows
got onto without - acrbkaat priori to "tea'

Ti. siorsiag jaereale leave the fellewiter is tbir
sung eieeirtei Oteehewar,
is Ohs mar mitre, MOO We NOM vet %a tog
Amelia lot siglit. a Yr. Csmisio, Awe dr Welt wins
asisi, drowsing Sig frattor,asgirrediles,ridlleunia. The
usikeisesis opos Worsen issetba, aid hissipl t. Onmassic.
The 011awlisa w..nissi bit ile Otemek ?swiss
Oimple7."

PRINCE ALPUD AND THE ROTtL NAVAL SCNOOD.
Az•Atottims bovtag bra cods by tbo Como° of Me
y
.rat &tool, Ifew-oroos, for permission to mei dr
dree of Prior Mind as a puma of that imitation, 611
~.shiest d whir is to rhea, the 11. e d Gam
auTthe ride Nurse end& M royal Ware Ire
a • hip wesebee d wires bar kr red Use tars
roder'• send% Oskar dr Ear WM B Z.C.8.,
' dr arreerdrat i• Kt. lieses, dee , bar Itodsoy'a
emerrie, That rase. Id rerd *Wm is t
des op to pro pelneree teirddrir• y, let
aeariedry the siroyairte arearea dr marl
peedrisa. kr rbra visor ea err es row
Ur Is treat el Nur Sark be wird • &-
arks et M. bps bur priar4seed,ta the rem el Pyres
abr. Bee *defy eel tie hire et Weir (ibe Yawed
oder le • Ild der orb • anerue be the Greek
the bortedre rim wird 11..156 by his Bora POO-
re the Panes Orret
CAYBIUDGI EXAMINATIONS.—re.

Mll. L MULL or lossane—Yesterday even-
ts. Mr. &Mimi sdiememei a astaid sends el his seg.
pease so Beaks. T. sosellies Shim Sews yes resolved
villt wok eathmehes bee as resehiller V weed. Mt.
Min leanogal Melds of the Mora oarg. ssd ma Os
Ursa sighed woe draed, me It auk might b% of senr-
tallies midi et re Meng madman hod liegmesteg .ms-
es et ibenl elesten fa hie &veer, he (Mr. IOW) Seigel
LLasu la abide by the molt.
A 'wean of the electors of Rochdale was
bad Ist evade& at SYS It was desedly essolved se Into
MT. Ogden to geed her the rossatathe Of ihs borough ;
sod • reivildtiom to that pathos oblesed asseiy MO
aigmatoroo OM the !pt.

loran= vessiormirly
==tiPirlimm=a..ll4 100167. rem

THE EXPRESS, THI.:JRSDAY EVENI7I3, DECEMBER 16, 1 48.

UNTIED STATES.

...,-.. 1
The screw steamaliiii City of Baltimore, Captain
Leitch, belonging to fhe Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia Steamship. Company, arrived in the :
Mersey yesterday, bringing New York advioes
of the 4th instant, 297 passengers, 110,428 dollars
in specie, and the United States mails.
The City of Baltimore has made the passage in
10} days mean time.
The steamer Prince Albert left New York fair
Galway on the 4th inst.
There is little news of interest by this arrival.
Members of Congress and strangers were assem-
bling at Washington, preparatory to the opening of
the session on the 6th inst. _ .

In regard to—the forthcoming Message of the
President, the Washington correspondent of the
New York Times says:
The Message will fill eighteen columns of the IVaa4ixgton
Visioe, while most of the reports are very short. The Prom-
dent will recommend the ratification of the Cam-lierran
Treaty as now meddled. By arrangement, the Menage will
be communicated to the two houses of Congress on Monday,
the eth instant._ _ _

The report of Secretary Cobb adheres strictly to the ad
valorem system, while Mr. Bachanan thinks a specific duty
might be imposed with propriety in particular cases—not,
however with any view to protection, but to revenue.
This is the only difference in their financial policy.
Secretary Tommy, in Ine annual report, will urge the
importance of a large inerease of the navy, bat, in view of the
dilapidated state of the federal parse just at this time, will
recommend the immediate construction of only 20 or 26 new
vessels--probably sloops of war similar to the five now con-
structing.
I am informed that the Secretary of War will
renew his recommendation for an increase of the
regular army, as indispensable to the protection of
our extended frontiers, and the maintenance of good
order in Utah and the Indian oonntry.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says :
The President's message will re-assert the principle of
the Monroe doctrine as regards Mexico and Central America.
The super or interests of this country in all that relates to
that part of the world, and our relationship, geogreplii-
sally and politically considered to other states of this eon-
' tinting, demand such an announcement to the world at this
aisle. With regard to the States of Mexico, oonterminous
with our territory, Sonora and Chibuahna especially, the
President will declare that, if Mexico cannot preserve order,
we must, for the protection of our own people and the pre-
. nervation of our interests.
_

fisnersio;;;ria;rl:lTrho is, in fact, the preempt constitu-
tional President of blesioo, but who has not accepted the
extreme policy of either of the parties now waging civil war
there, is here to witness the opening of Congress, and to see
how things are managed by this government. Before he
leaves he will have • conference with Mr. Buchanan un the
present state of affairs in the neighbouring republic.
The report of the Secretary of War will call for eighteen
millions of dollars for the service of the decal year—two and
• half millions less than celled for last year, and actually
about nine millions lees, including the deficiencies, that had to
bo provided for by Congress. The eseretary thinks next year
he can, even with the same force, material sod service, re-
duce it to fifteen millions. Considering the Utah expedition
and Indian were, this is • gratifying result and prospect.
The report that Secretary Cobb was about to quit
the cabinet and succeed Mr. Dallas in the mission to
London is stated to be wholly untrue.

The President had received information from
Japan that a fall embassy from that country will
make its appearance at Washington some time in
May or June next. They will be brought to Panama
in an American steam-frigate, and thence proceed to
New York. It will be marked by splendid presents
to the government from the Japanese Emperor.
A destructive fire had occurred at Rochester, New
York, entailing a loos of 44,000 dollars.
General Paez, the Venezuelan patriot, sailed from
New York on the god inst. on board the government
steamer Atalanta, for Venezuela. The general was
still suffering from his late accident, and was carried
to the steamer on a litter by a party of soldiers.
The emigration statistics of New York show that
the arrivals of emigrants for the year, down to the
24th ult., numbered only 76,310, which is a decrease
of 100,606 as compared with the arrivals in the same
period last year.
At a meeting of the New York Chamber of Com-
merce a letter was read from Secretary Cobb, giving
the reasons for his recent action in relation to the
the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty. He is of opinion
that, by the provisions of that treaty, American
flour ground in Canada cannot be entered free of
duty.
An election for a member of Congress in Pennsyl-
vania, to fill the place of Mr. J. Glancy Jones, the
newly-appointed minister to Austria, had resulted
in the defeat of the administration candidate.

A Democratic State Convention wu in session
in Virginia, striving to nominate a candidate
for governor. The contest was very exciting. and
was said to be the most bitter and virulent known in
the political annals of the state.