The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-20 00:00:00

THE Z.PRESS, TfriyitSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1858..

" the arbitrary will"—of the British Gagmennientt
This is Confiscation ; no verbal quibble can Strip it Of
that odious character. The "floptistney right int!
" the soil " of Oade may be an equitable right or a
legal right (to use our own law jargon), but a sub-
stantial right of some kind it must be, or it could set
be esedieseted. And this right is to be wrested
from—net only those who are actually in aims
against us—not only from chiefs and talookdars—
but from every one of the five millions of
inhabitants of Oude who has any " proprietary
" right in the soil." Even those who " come in*
and make submission are only promised " life
" and honour ;" they are not to have their land
again. The decree of oonhscation is sent out against
a whole people. Every inhabitant of Oude must
lose his " proprietary right in the soil" if herons*
prove himself innocent, and may loos it even though
he do. The first principle of English jurisprudence
—of natural equity—that the accuser is bound to
prove the guilt of the accused, not the accused to
prove his own innocence, is wantonly and cruelly re-
versed. In the whole annals of confiscation and
proscription a more revolting document has not been
recorded. Its own language condemns it. Its
English is unsusceptible of any other interpretation.
And the whole public of India—natives and Euro-
peens alike—have understood it in the sense of un-
mitigated and wanton spoliation.
Now, we are not going to plead in extenuation of
Lord Eusenosocon's unwise reminiscences of the
original annexation of Onds. We are not going to
say one word in favour of the dictatorial and rheto-
rical language of his Despatch. Neither question is
raised by Mr. CAIDWILL'S Resolution. That Reso-
lution merely censures Government because they
have condemned the GOVERNOI-01INLI4L for pro-
posing to confiscate " the proprietary right in the
" soil of the province "—the whole proprietary right
—the proprietary right of every landowner. We
say the Resolution's censure is levelled against the
Government's condemnation of this proposed confis-
entice, for this proposal to confiscate is the only
weed or deal of the Goveamoa-Ozsmi. that has
been ovidoassd by Oovornment.

Talk, indeed, a; Mr. CARDWELL'S Resolution hy-
pocritically does, of theClocerninent Despatch having
a tendency to " weaken the authority of the

" Goveartoe-Garrinut. and encourage the further
" resiatanoe of those in arms against as! "
Why, we have It in evidence that the
confiscation clause of Lord CANNING'S Proclamation
has already "weakened the authority" of the British
Government, and confirmed " those who are in arms
" against tur in their determination to resist to the
uttermost. If a majority of the House of Commons
adopt Mr. Ca.anwatt's Resolution they will sanc-
tion—ea far as a Resolution of one branch of the
Legislature can—the spoliatory decree of the Go-
moroa-Geetim.. They will aietwedly take the
first step towards the ultimate lose of our great
Eastern Dependency. Sir G C. Lewis declared, on
Monday night, that " Re could not conceive any
" sane man imagining that Lord CANNING meant to
" oonfieoate the rights of all the owners and men-
" piers of the land. . . . Such • policy was
" unknown to modern times, and no sane man could
" suppose Lord CANNING to have contemplated it."
And apes thin aasumption Sir G. C. Lawn declared
that be would vote for Mr. C•anwittes
motise. But Sir G. C. LEWIS meat now
be aware that Lord CANNING'S Proclamation
is unseeeeptible of any interpretation but that which
he declared it would be insanity to attribute to it,
and that in no other Ni.. lee it been anderateed is
India. We are, therefore, entitled confidently to
expect that Sir G. C. Lewis will at least abstain
from esesuring Government for condemning a policy
which he thought so abominable that it would be
111011SIESMS to impute it to any modern statesman. The
same atetinence we are entitled to expect from Mr. Ser-
jeent Dakar, Colonel SYKES, and other gleams who
jagged their intention to support Mr. CARDWELL'S
Reeektion, on the plea that it was impossible to
session that Lord CANNING could contemplate a
*ley et epoliatiee. And in general we implore all
independent Liberal members not to inflict on their
party the 'three, of having supported Mr. CARD-
Imes Jesuitical and dangerous Resolution.

Than unmet be two opinions as to the para-
mount importance of the question raised by Sir
Ousts' NAPIII on Tuesday night. The decision
of the peat political duel now depending in Parlia-
ment is of absorbing interest to the combatants im-
mediately concerned in it; but the country at large
regards with oonaiderable equanimity the progress
of the party conflict whose issue is the sole topic of
conversation in Pall-mall. It is otherwise with
regard to our national defences. To the
quidnunc. and the cowries, the motion of
Sir CHARLES NAPIER for an inquiry as to
the best means of manning our Navy presented
itself in no other light than as an impertinent
intrusion arm the infinitely more important ques-
tion whether Mr. DIII/ALLI or his opponents are
to sit an a particular side of the House of
Commons. The people of England will probably
Ibe of • different opinion. To them it may occur
that few subjects of investigation are of more
paramount importance than the means of procuring
a ready and adequate supply of able seamen fur
manning those floating bulwarks, which are after
al! the surest defences of English freedom. No one
pretends that oar present situation is a satisfactory
one. People the least of all, disposed to indulge in
false alarms cannot ignore the fact that at this
moment great dillcolty is experienced in manning
oar Channel fleet. Since lest October the Hone
Guards, we are told, has enlisted 50,000 men, while
the Admiralty has not been able, in the same time,
to man two line-of-battle ships and two frigates.
The Diadem was commimioned on the 19th of An-
ima, 1866 ; she did not get her full complement of
men till the 13th of last July. We have only tan
sail-of-the.line, two frigates and a corvette at Spit-
head, and they are not half manned. The Marl-
borough has been four or five months in fitting out;
the Euryslus, the Renown, and the Racoon have
been still longer.

Now, surely there is something wrong here. What
has the Admiralty been about ? How oomee it that
all the eminent statesmen, " Whigs and Tories, Peen
and Commoners, who have sat at the head
of that Board," have not been able to
fall upon an efficient working plan for the
manning of our Navy ? The Board, no doubt,
is, and foe ages has been, one of the most favourite
abodes of Cireunalocatioa and Routine. The cold
odleialies that disdains every suggestion, and treats
every triventor as ?now; fade an enemy oe
swindler, has long been the presiding genius at mar
Ministry of the Marine. The double and frequently
conflicting machinery of &menet House and White.
hall is still kept tip, in spite of protest and remain-
strum, far no other discoverable motive than that
of involving public business in the poorer marnen
of official mystification, and supplying the
proper quantity of official patronage for
clerks, messengers, housekeepers, and junior lords.
Still, is the rougher days of the great war, when
Nzi.sox, our Roglish sea-king, rods the undisputed
lard of the coma, this lumbering. patremage-eidden
Board did, in its rude way, contrive to man the

theta whose atiltievements are the
the history of our naval sepremae

Page in
worked,

pressrusg, and workestit with aAL Another'
age has come and other manners. Impressment has,
very properly, ceased to be an available resource, and
our Admiralty has not yet had the wit or
the will to supply us with a satisfactory substitute.
What the Board won't do or can't do for itself it is
absolutely indispensable that others must be found
to do for it. It is creditable to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON
that he has at once admitted this necessity, and has
granted to Sir CHARLES NAPIEI the immediate
appointment of a Royal Commission to consider and
report on the best means of manning our Navy.
Without endeavouring in any way to prescribe
to the members of this Commission the topics
to which their inquiry should be directed, or the
course it should pursue, it is impossible to forbear
allusion to one point most properly mimed by
Lord C. PAGET. Why should the country be bur-
dened with a large annual charge for the transport
of troops in private ships, while the same service
might be so much better and more economically per-
formed by men-of-war ? Why should a fact of this
kind be possible :—a screw line-of-battle ship
is lying at Liverpool ready to go to sea,
and yet Government takes up, at the same
port, a merchant ship of 1,600 tons for the
conveyance of troops to Ireland! Not only
is this an indefensible waste of the public money, it
has also, as Lord C. PAGET very clearly pointed out,
an important bearing on the question of keeping up
to a proper mark the manning of the Navy. Lest
year we spent more than 400,0001. in hiring seamen
for the transport service who would not be available
for the purposes of war. How much more profitably
might half this sum have been spent in keeping up
men-of-war transports. This is only one instance
out of hundreds that might be adduced to show
that the great thing wanted at the Admiralty
is a deliberate and resolute application of good sense,
unparalysed by the deadening influence of routine, to
the new wants of the new time. The question raised
by Sir CHARLES NAPIER is not a question to be
trifled with. The tremors of the alarmist are ridi-
colons, but the apathy of the over-confident is
criminal. The wise and earnest lover of his country
avoids both extremes. He will not ignore, but he
will not exaggerate, the importance of the fact that
the man of Streabourg, of Boulogne, of the
coup-cretat—the man who cannot be calculated—
the man of the star; the man who in one of the
most solemn crises of his fate declared that he had a
defeat to avenge and a cause to uphold—that defeat
being Waterloo and that cause Napoleonism—is
now at the head of 600,000 armed men, has a marine
force of 70,000 trained seamen, and a fleet ready for
sea comprising 40 screw-steamers of the line. The
Englishman who reflects on these things will find
no ground for apprehension, but much reason for
vigilance ; if he does not happen to belong to a poli-
tical club he may even be inclined to admit that an
instant inquiry into the best means of manning the
British Navy is a question of almost as much moment
as the amount of the majority for or against Govern-
ment on Friday night or Saturday morning.

LORD CANNING'S EXPLANATION or THE COE-
FISC.ATION CLAUSE.—Dstsrmised to leave nothing
in doubt, the Governor-General has instructed the
Government Secretary to address to the administra-
tion of Oude a despatch explanatory of his Procla-
mation. In this despatch we are told:—lit. That
" this proclamation is addressed to the chiefs and
inhabitants of Onde." 2nd. With respect to those
who are free from the suspicion of having put to
death or injured Europeans, " to those men their
lives an guaranteed and their honour ;" that is, in
native acceptation, they will neither be transported
screw seas nor placed in prison. 3rd. That those
who surrender and give security for their peaceable
behaviour may be allowed to go home; but that
"the permission to return to their homes must not
be considered as a re-instalment of them in the pos-
session of their lands, for the deliberate disposal of
which the Government will preserve itself un-
fettered."

MR. SALISBURY, M.P., AT Cillarra.—On Monday
evening Mr. E. O. Salisbury, addressed a public maw-
fag of tisolon sad others, at Chester, in reply to some
=..which had bees made agelast hire oa sewrrel
The addition essa two boars sad a halt in
=gsad oaths dose Mr. StlMbary avowed his intention
Marl( for n• election In the mat of a dissolution
g psrillemeat. A veinal thanks wastendered to the hob. pea-
-1 thorn, sad of coatianed imaildenos in him is one of the
niembers for Christ.—Masslissigr OtiardWilt.

Tank= Mnintaita.—Thr Leaden correspondent
(Mr. Maguire) of the CM* Esestimr says :—" About four-
some et the Irish Liberal 'ambers will VOW against Use coa-
l/01MM policy, the majority of the Liberal inembera being
warned by their ameba:modes to ha
Lad COMllinfr, Mr.
V. Smith, Lord John Rummell, Lord Palmerston. &c. &c. It
is thought that Sir James Graham and Mr. Gladstone will
vote against their honourable friend, Mr. Cardwell. The
Im-
premion Wet sight was, that there would be a majority alit
against the goverament."
ELECTION RUMOURS IN IRELAND.—Under the
impression that a dissolution id parlianant is inumiesst,
active preparations have ommased in ems of the Mel
counties and borosits, The Ihreasaie Auras' has the hi-
:—" ha the musty Cork, it is mid, an *ark Whig
Liberal Is *spend la stints Ike eseatilume and that his
Meade ars =skims as maw *maw la Ma. It is
rumoured that Whip are pawed lie
again but the Illtsitat la=iresiTi4=7::
general farad* with the silk k not nu-
merous. Copia Bellew will Mildest dermiy. Sir
T. Realist's heo left town, it le Galway, on
election hainus. Mr. Graves, of Ws hem on •
viat to New Bon, it is said with • view to matters.
lb' Brady will again come Stewsrd, ft I paorelly under-
stood. for the city of IMAM Atimeas Itapields. Alder-
me Ras, end sa .skeet maisherof the *pa prehries,
aro she *rhea at as Wily antiel as dep. Cling
What, ala rf the wamiler hr Larthrd, le wry pans*
when of se a probable madidars for the suffrages of the
anotheatey el i.aure Debi*"
Runs us Lnatagir CITY ELECTION. The
Liguria Isporter of Tor* 'nye " &vend houses mut
**eked last aigM by a da*srate mob. and ',Wow*
".abed el prism sapprored to be friendly to Mr. Beal.
The sap was la • Male of the greatest irsoitetomit and balm
lady is the waft the rival candidates from their res-
pective plateaus "lines( the crowds. Archdeacon Goold,
who gam his Was* to Mr. Ball at the last olsotioa, toss for
Mr. SOON at the ganal eh* Mr. Ball I. set • au
at the remit
_pasionmat. reverted 's
Ism* Nam ailhaabssra. Thee
police oaks, iliOnft
woe theampri withal's, arrested dining last night. The
iteminet ef lhe masishmess, the police, and the military sad
Gait ma.. Is MOM pniewerthy, and lives would he lost
wars I anti* their admirable arrangements. Matters ere
moo band! Orday."
.111102311111118 Paorscriox Soda''.—Yeeterday
*a awed we* of We society was had at Crosby-hall,
atatersistarerset ; Mr. ram, occupied ilia ohs*
The mmeitry nod W. y,port, which 'grieved mum
"vents it India, and out several Mb at the Rag-
a& rale there that had bade a mats
or this vs.
Masa whisk sew Rapt these. The of theliadsoa's Bay Oargary was aro ae, sad en-
sured as ealsiatfatie- to eivillesdra .4 agriadrare,
stadia( to emir We native le the pursuit of bonds.
animah for the sake A their data, is ardor to ober*
• twin. It tom roam" that shoes animas ern berashar
more seams every &Amid the wolves woes 7 gnaw
Illy all iMearlote of ear asstehrlates area.
Ma while Or esalpsy deprived am of the tabe of
thie *la Ths repo* also Meat epee the Waal* hems
Isell7hadra. sad ice aran d the to the astalt-
talfirthrilning esterase kw ths II• swine
cousivia Ind* Mark Ms. Mr. hook Mpg mad
the step the sad the *pert, which, beam Ikea assaded
Mr. B. fry, ass psi sad carried urshassrly. The
other reseWles. la brow of the aye et the sesis*, were
mad tad need" by rßev: hasp UMW (Smestary
at the Pease ficalsey), sad the Var. lidesall Nara ; Mr.
Wasiargeon Wks. and Mr. Bohm lashibm Poway
(Temente* A vole c 4 Mudge was passed la ilia shaman,
• ths mrstrAsa separtseed.
CONSITITIVI EXAMINATION tog MiS
• Dodos he. hosa Wad from the War-oace that an att.
stslaariat of andidates tar !Met onamissima be the army
wilt take Own d Berhertee Boum Piccadilly, on Monday,
the I* of leas, sad haserlag day
TIM Gallant! Ltereasse—The hair lectureship
non tido sadist foaadatioa has blow* vessat. Thu Gresham
Committee, with whose the appristmeat nets, have given
notice that they will rooted Is ea *tam esatierp, ifte
I Ith of Jane.

ellt grouch

The Qualm and Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prince's Alice, and attended by the Duchess of Atholl,
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel
Poneceby, went yesterday afternoon to Twickenham, and
pald a visit of coodelence to efts Duke and Duchess d'Au-
male, the Count de Paris, slut the Duke de Chartres.
The Princess Anna of Ban Weimar visited the Queen.
Prince Arthur and Prime Leopold took a carriage drive.
The Duchess of Lent visited her Majesty at Buckingham
Palace in the sawing.

Despatches were mat yesterday from the Colonial-office to
the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lathan, and the Mau-
ritius.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, and the
younger bromism at the royal family, leave Buckingham
Palace to-day for Osborne. The Qom intenda, according
to present arnmsgsmsts, to tem& in the Ills of Wight
until the Mk or Mk WO.

Mr. Fact Watson, of No. 201, Piccadilly, has
jest had eh, boner of salindtting rascal of his remarkably
truthful and elaborately lisishad pictures and Medium from
nature to kr Maisoly sad dcs Primo Carr, at Bucking-
ham Palace.

His Excellency Mr. Buchanan, C. 8., her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and hitaieter Plewipotamtiary at the
Court of Madrid, has left Clarldie's Hotel, with Mrs. Bu-
chanan, for Paris, en more for Madrid.

Frances Anne Marchioness of Londonderry hue
issued carda for a morning party at Holildwarre House, on
Saturday, the 12th of June, tram 3 to 8.

The Marquis Zalbitra has taken hie departure
from the Brunswick Hotel (6t. Jetnes'ajt kr Pads, MS remote
br

Lord Brougham hoe arrivad in town from his
chateau at Canoes, the Dottie and karma lord !savior/ made a
brief sojourn I. the Preseh capital, se room to London.

Lord Henry Scott sad Lord Dunglssue expected
at Montague Renee to-marrow from Egypt. The noble
lords have hew several months engaged in making a tour
through Peleethie._

Lord Edward Cavendish, eon of the Duke of
Devonshire, sad Lord Richard Grosvenor, son of the
Marquis of Westminster, take their departure in the course
of the ensuing month for America, with the intention of
making a sin months' tour through the United States and
Canada.

Lord and Lady Middleton have arrived at the St.
Georges Hotel.

Lad and Lady Wenlock have arrived at Ed-
wards' Hotel for the season, from BEA& Park, Yorkshire.

Lady Jane Wslob's ball will take place on Taw-
day sat, the 26th bast.

Mn. Cuningbama of Lainshaw's first ball on Tues-
day evening, In Great Stanhope-street, was wry fully and
fashiccably attendad.

Lady -Pakington will hate an assembly this
main at the Admiralty. The entrance on the park aide
will be open for visitors.
The Duchess of Northumberland " received " last
evening at Northumberland Home. Previoualy to the
assembly theirishe and duchess entarhdned at dinner—His
Exeellmiey the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Meyer, the Ran mad Countess of Verulam, the Earl and
Countess of Egmont, the Bari of Romney, Viseremt sad
ViseomMes Steadied de itaelcdies, Viscount Exmouth,
Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Lord and Lady
Hl/Bile, Lord sad Lady Coletrester, Lord Wyatt* Lord
Omega l'emlea, Lord sad Lady Womlook, Lady Ligh, Kea.
Charles sad Mrs. Bads Percy, Han. Aram: and Mn.
Macomb. end Mies Dineambe, Hee. Bowisad Hill, dos.

The Speaker of the Hoene of Common gave his
afteestb parliamentary tall-drat dinner, last craning, at his
mamba on Carlton Howe-tense& The following were
mond : McNutt Raynhaza, Hon.!. J. Tollemacha, Hon.
C. Han. D. Patinas', Hon. G. Cavendiab,
Has. W. Owen litanley, Sir Charki Barren, fin B. Peel,
Mr. flerjant Kloglaka, Mr. Homy B. Baring, Mr. Lang-
ston, Kr. Gordan Ballow, Mr. Finley, Captain ?ryes, Mr.
Telma/ad Mainwerlog, Mr. Brydges Willyants, Mr.
Anywise Owl* Mr. Mambo, Mr. Bawd, Mr. Kirkman
'Hodges, Mr. George G. Glyn, Mr. Howe" Mr. Yaw,
Mr. Pigott, Mr. Meets (Tewkesbury), lir. Pritchard, Mr.
Purges, Mr. Hants, and Mr. Grant Dot The Hon. Goo.
Wsldegrave and the Roc Henry Drop had the honour of
joining the party.

The Rev. Richard Haworth, clerk, has been in-
'Stated to the metory of Cheintoodiston, In Suffolk, on the
presentation of tits Quote
The Bath Chronicle records the decease of the
Rev. Arthur James hiacirans, M.A., the head-master of
Kins Edward's School, in that city, end Rector of Charl-
combs.

The Bishop of Exeter completed his 80th year
on nuusday.

Sir John Inglis, K.C.8., who luka been suffering
from Illness of late, was to hare Calcutta for England is
the steamer of the 23rd alt.

" Last evening (Tawky)," says the Newcastle
Cirsessit, "Ire. Jude I. Whits Mario eithmeed a
Imp sadism* in the Lecture Room, Ifelson-street, to this
tows, ea the 'abject el Italia Nasiceslity. The Wawa'
wee ihemed to with the deepest intemmt, sespended ealy M
intervals by the warm applause which her elememse melted.
Joseph Orme. jun., Esq., ocoupled the ask."

Nits (B.l.4Chrosiele) regret to state that Mr.
Lon, Y.P. far North Witt; has lass realty weird to
his house by a errors shark of broaddtha

Mr. Esrey, the celebrated horee-tamer, is about to
pay a vWt to the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton.

_ .
Prince Gorte.hakoff, lately acting u governor of
Poised, bee arrived is Paris.

" The marriage of the Duke of Oporto, brother of
the Xing of Portugal, with the daughter of the Emperor of
Emil," we a Berlin letter, " is regarded in some diplomatic
eiroles here ea an event &aided on. The Emperor of Brasil
has no rule heir, and the duke would be thus eventually
Galled to the throne of that country."

A letter from Hanover in the Suabsee Mercury
Nys:—"Aelapnler symptom of public opinion is awed
here by the paamate, who, in several districts, have held
meetinp, and engewined their views on bills submitted to the
Chambers. They have Wm written to their representatives
requesting theca to reeks unless prepared to sot according to
directions met due."

Oalignani states that M. Menne, the officer
who wounded X. de Phut, is not a sub-lieutenant, but a
ewers ; he has, however, only held that grade for two
maths. Hs le from forty-two to krty-ilve years of age, and
wee at one time a military fenaing-master.

DEATH 01 LADY BENTHAIL—It is not without
etnotioa that we have to mord the death of Lady Bentham,
the relict dee late Brigadier-General Bir &sou& Bentham,
the renews of whose genius as is inventor I. world-wide.
The deemed lay, who bed nobly spent her long widowhood
to perfecting the records of her Illustrious limbs/es melo-
deon died ea Tessday, the Ilkh bast., at her own reeideacie
B. valuable have her /abler' bees, that her name has become
allow ea widely lowern es Ifir lanteare, wad the two will be
hanwerebly esoesited fradmo.—airedmiti Rogerior.
" Y4i4P—aal C.
ttilt" 4"es M.
Deanery of In* recent by . % bay
been cephered epee the BOIL awl Rev. nominee Dwi
cow* poloodeaff el Sela sad not era the Ron. end Rev.
Grantheei X. Tooke, se we had previously lama led to
anticepeta. Idr. Duarembe is brother of Lord le=
le a sad the figth year Ohio sp. He married
aim at Mho year
Mamie of Quessiberrrlfer mem
years he had On sectary of Kirby Miepeeton, wee& GUM
LORA year, lot ea the death of his Whet, the Us Lord
Feveralwa,bas enecesded to • coesiderable ketoae, wad re-
eved the living.—Lerds Jfereary.

BORODON or LZEDII.—NEW MAOISTILLTEL—A
idler, dated the Nth boa, hes beta readved by the Mayor
id Looks, kiln the frowatary at the Lied Chisteeist, ia-
kflutas Idle that Ide kids* Weeds le appoint the felbetr-
tag seatimes es wesitesm• at the beferegh et Lam%
addloisa those Weak aa Ike berth :—Ja•aph
Walla Ad:Wm, Ilmetel lows Nerireeve, Thum Ta-
na* eMit Iheessylimidlink ketent Haas% imam
bum*J worm ittle GM Jan labia, &gra

•
Lilt= thee hem rthelthlt
that the Lath lhMly W 1 ethehl ever kw de
tag= Turley. esthrether 7. For Or sharatag
the t woks ?rat boa there :---SePeeeFit7f7
dalawha's " •, Hayda's " !.tort ; • 9th, Boat
hothetee " Keith* el Mee." Itholate .111thet Nair,
sad athelithe ken &We Priem Node ;" It* the
" ltheelebt."—lthris
SHOCKING CHIIIICHWARDISHOIrThe Olf S
greet thetiothiltea pallet him, ye the ishtheek ethee
the leterailesiiert et theft the aides et the emit isteols
all the churches order their thethei teeth piss. may
Saturday, with the sever, andi bretal view of paid* ems
limit to the avarice at perianth—Amok

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ovi owx

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The melancholy news of the death of the Duchess
of Orleans, although known in Paris yesterday at
6 o'clock, was not noticed by any of the morning
papers except the Debate and the Univers. The
Paine says this evening : _ _

• • • The Duchessof Orleans was the head of the
exiled family. Her counsels corned with them the authority
belonging to the superiority of her mind and her position se
a mother. On more than one occasion she showed a rare
firmness of character, more especially at a moment when
there was an expectation of effecting a union between the
two branches of the family, separated by the revolution of
1830. She opposed it in the name of her husband's memory
and her eon's honour; and the fusion which had been so
carefully prepared by many eminent statesmen received the
soap de trade from the hand of a woman. Her death makes
a great void at Claremont. In France it will only Inspire
I regret for a premature loss, and respect for this new and
greater grief of a family which has experienced so many sad
reverses.

Count Walewaki's grand dinner was more than
commonly brilliant. There were present the Queen
of Holland and suite, the Prince of Wurtemburg and
suite, the Prince Napoleon and suite, the Princess
Mathilde and suite, and almost the entire corps
diplomatique.
The Emperor and Empress and their illustrious
guests are going to see Madame Ristori this evening.
Medea will be played " by command."
The telegram announcing that the Marquis de
Turgot had taken leave of the Queen of Spain and
was about to return to France is contradicted, and it
is stated that he will accompany her Majesty in her
voyage to Valencia and Alicante.

There will be an election on May 30 for a vacant
seat in the Corps Legislatif for the department of
the Orne. The government candidate will be op-
posed.

The Bourse has been dull, and without any
marked feature. The Rente fell 6c. for account,
closing at 69fr. 60c. That was also the last price
for cash, being the same as yesterday. Mobilier
rose 2fr. 60c. There was a considerable movement
at one time in the Southern railway, in consequence
of a rumour that the company had signed a treaty
with the Canal Company. This was afterwards de-
nied, and the shares declined, and closed with a
slight fall. All the other lines were from 2fr. 60c.
to 6fr. lower.

Bulletins of the state of M. de Pene are sent to
Paris several times every d►y. He lies upon •
miserable mattress in the little auberge at Peoq, to
which he was carried from the ground, his physi-
cians being of opinion that his removal at
present would cause instant death. It ap-
pears that when he fell he remained stretched
on the grass for • full hour. Although
the blood was flowing from his wounds in torrents,
he was, pursuant to invariable French practice,
"immediately bled." The author of " Fallacies of
the Faculty" would probably have something to
say of this treatment. A litter was made up with
a table and a bed by the help of some woodmen.
The removal to the inn took nearly an hour, and
during the transit a small shower of rain fell, which
refreshed him, and according to one medical opinion,
perhaps saved his life. The last bulletin, dated this
morning, states that his countenance is becoming
yellow. This is owing to the liver being pierced.
His state is most dangerous, but hope is not entirely
abandoned. Both military and civil inquiries are
going on, touching the conduct of the officers, but
the proceedings as usual are secret, and nothing has
yet transpired as to what is likely to result from
them.