The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

THE DANGER OP READING PORBIDDRX
BOOKS IN RUSSIA.

A St. Petersburg correspondent of the .411,e.
wine Zeitung, writing on the 15th ult., refers to the case of
Bofrath Wuchinn, a respectable 1. assian gentleman and Wl*
pensioner, who has just been arrested and sent awe, from by
home, bceauro be had been .:Ity of reading aloud, in public
places, certain tracts printed abroad, 'of a criminal pure; v.
The correspondent adds—. I enclose to you the extract free
a Gazette, which announces that Hofrath Muchinn 'ill to hi
sent, under guard, away from St. Petersburg to one of fps
remote governments, and to be kept there uni
strict police ittveillance.' This means in ether
words, to Sitcr..i ; and the addition, under strict INA,
surveillance is a very heavy aggravation of the punistasee
the real signification of which is what people in the West of
Europe, can scarcely form a oorrect ides of. The' (Prete
tracts, printed abroad,' were the Kelokol (the Bell),
ain London, and a part of the " Voices, from Rud(rare:ah is Rosie), which are well known e
as the retch,
newsy writings of Herten, printed in London at vie, is
called the ' Free Ruesian Press,' No 2, Judd-street, Beey,
wick-square, and which are circulated here in great nue*,
If the reading aloud or communication of these errs*
recite such a penalty, and be it observed that no limit lake
to its duration, and the 'strict police surveillance' may tt,e,,,
continued for life, whilst the remote government is not spse,
fled by name—then thousands of peptone here in St. Pee,
burg are equally guilty, for three writings are actually pasty
from hand to Land, though inthei with greater ninon:ape.
tion than Bofrath fduchinn displayed. You can het,
now begin a conversation without its turning open the lee,
attacks made by the Ifolokol upon Sakrevraki Bering, Oa*
Adlerberg, and even higher personages. if any ens IN
not himself read them, he has at keg heard of they, et.
eggerated even by repetition, and the inadequacy of a paki
prohibition to put restrictions on intellectual activity, he
never been so completely exemplified as in the cue
these papers brilliantly written, and printed in the Rune
I language. f the object has been to make an example d
Iluchinn, and intimidate others by the sentence pan ed spa
him, I believe it will produce no effect but the observance d
greater precautions and closed doors when the same curt
thing is going on.

DINNER TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN 01
COLONEL CARTWRIGHT, M.P.

A dinner to celebrate the return of Colonel Cart.
weight for the southern division of the county of Northarop.
ton was held in the Town-hall, Brackley, on the dternuas
of Wednesday, March 17. About 90 eat down to &rem
ander the precedency of J. STRATTON, Esq. Amongst thou
present were R. Knightley, Esq.. M.P., W. Willa", gm_
Rev. R. P. Humphrey, Captain Severn, Major Cartwrisfi:
the Rev. C. S. Peel, J. Willem, Esq., Captain Barclay, a.
Risley, Esq., Ike.
The health of Colonel Cartwright having been drunk, tilt
gentleman returned thanks. His address was chiefly krg
and personal in its references. He concluded by myist
he believed that In Lord Derby they had the motto*
servative chief in the country. (Cheers.) He believed tk
Lord Derby had great difficulties to contend with ; but is
present days were different from those 20 yeses ago, vim
whig and tory divided the whole house. Now these puns
were so subdivided that there was no majority in the pugs.
meat. Now there wire three minorities, and the *mum
tire was the strongest, and if no factious opposition le
brought against it he was satisfied it would remit
'in power this year, and gain additional confidant
in the country to that which it already pp.
sewed. (Cheers.) There were many questions now before
the country, and which used to be cabinet questions only;
and it was well known that as soon as the Palmerston gores-
meta was out of power they became hungry and wasted to
get back again; but the conservative leader in the Housed
Commons answered them well. (Applause.) He stocerely
hoped, and he was satisfied, if there was no factions oppas-
tion, it would be se, and that depended upon whether the
other parties should rally together—the consen-stivee had
very fair prospects of carrying on the government of the
count in this year, and he hoped the next. Cheers.) Its
to drink all their very good health'. (Cheers.)
'IT; health of Rebuild Knightley, Esq., colleague of
Colonel Cartwright in the representation of the *mulles
division of the county, having been given,

Mr. RAINALD KNIOHTLEY LOW, and was loudly clewed.
He returned them his sincere thinks for the kindest'
of the toast. It was a great pleuure to him to to
present on that occasion to celebrate the return of
Colonel Cartwright for this county They had fought
a good led, and they had gained a victory; and he
was happy to say, in which he thought they would all
join him, that it was over. (Laughter.) He thought thew
was no doubt but that contested elections were most unmiti-
gated nuisances, not only to the candidate himself u ho had
to pay for it—and here he spoke feelingly—but the whole
constituency were very much annoyed and disturbed; and
where parties were close rum and the result rather doubtful&
became worse, where the screw was put on, which he wu early
to say, without attacking any party, was too often tie
case. Sir Henry Dryden, when at Northampton, spoked
the relation of landlords and tenants ; but he could not sae
with him on that occasion—(hear, hear, and cheers). Hell
not wish to enter upon that subject, but he might say that*
Henry was hauled over the coals for it by a portico dile
press, not only in this county, but also in London. Tic
fiesitrid News devoted an article to him, in which it Raw
an appeal to the effiawy of the laelloL Now, as it a
happened, the case that Sir Henry Dryden referred to would
not be affected by it—that where tenants differed from their
landlords they should abstain from voting against their land-
lords; bat with the ballot it would be equally in the powr
of the landlord to insist on his tenant not going to the ballot-
box as to keep him back front the polling-booth. (Applanee.)
Who was it that would be benefited by the hello ? It was
not the persons before him, the free and independent elector,,
—who looked upon the franchise as a benefit to be enjoyed
and an important public duty to be performed, and who did
their duty fearlessly and detested the name of the billot.
(Cheers.) It would not affect that other doss who, not
taking any very great pert in business affairs, get ea-
fumed in the matter of Conservative-Liberals and Libra-
Conservatives, Pulite" and Whigs, and not tang
much about who got in, gave their vote to oblige a friend,
a landlord, or • customer ; end these persons don't want the
ballot. There were also a class of persons of independent
means, and who were too indolent to take the trouble to
vote; and this clam did not require it. Then who would ts
benefited ? The sneaking, lying scoundrel—(beer, hee)—
who made up his mind to tell • deliberate lie in the manta
manner, for the lowest motive--(applause)--a perste who
sold his birthright for • mesa of potage, after eating the
potage he wanted back his birthright. He could use the
ballot and lie with impunity. Were they prepared to be or
weed and insulted by the ballot for his sake f It must sew
be forgotten that the ballot must be compulsory. It wad
not do for one constituency to use it and another not; and
thus it was malty years ago, ladies were compelled
to wear an unnecessary hoop to distinguish thee
from prostitutes. If the constituencies insist spa
secret voting, he thought the members ought to le
allowed also to vote under • mask. For did they, set
think that the screw was applied on them ? He (Idr, Hmgkh
ley), fortunately not being made of very squeezable mats*
had not much to complain of in this way' but some had. It
occurred to him last year conscientiously and after rani
thought to vote against the party to which he belonged. He
did so, and he sincerely regretted, that he could not do odor
vile as en honest man ; but it must be perfectly obvious that
•to do this moat risk ell chance of coming into offies
tiPtre;', Now, he didn't lay the slightest claim to praise=
that account, and they knew that though he was note not
man yet he had all he wanted. He occupied • much loom
honourable position ea • free and unfettered member, the
he should do if he were • mere placemsn. (Cheese)
Now, be would like to avoid any further ease
tests, and he thought they would all agree with him in that.
-In order to prevent contests they should carefully attend to
the register. Sir Robert Peel said that the conserratte
battles were to be fought in the registration cowls. Hs
thought, however, they should not object to any vote =lea
they had sufficient rumen for so doing. He thought that bl
far the most important ground for avoiding another oontat
was in the manner he and his friends had voted. and UP
uformoefdthatheiriiiterepitc
of their
olwnf theythim wederieateu.suidpuvorunly es:ali
the whole constituency, and not the delegates of a brie
merely, he considered that they would be satisfied. (Mau)

The fourteenth anniversary of the birthday It
Prince Humbert, heir apparent to the mown of Sark*
was celebrated at Turin on the 14th. On this masks 611
King issued a decree promoting his Royal Highness to the
rank of captain of inhntry, and the prince accord**
wore the uniform of captain of the Piedmont brigade daring
the day. Count de Cavour gave a grand banquet at which
Sir J. Hudeon and Prince de Latour d'Auvergee were
present. The former propo,e4 the health of King Yleter
Emmanuel, to which Count de Cavour responded by pee•
posing that of all the sovereigns in alliance with Piedras&
A letter from Nice says that the King of Pro&
has abandoned the intention of taking up his residence in de
vicinity of that place, and that the functionaries of the royal
household who had been sent to prepare a houN fot
Majesty have been recalled.
The next Indian Telegram will be due on the oat
inst. It will contain news from Calcutta up to the 24th 111
The Colombo, with the China mails and the Luck**
retageer, is expected at Southampton on the 26th inst.
During the last eleven days 14 mail packets, with
fiOreuirhamn'aptilaori.banteve arrienfralveas hasavdbean
ebass"eigPatchlit, vei:.,Mthape Tdshd:
Parente Teviot, Ripon, Alhambra, Tyne, Arego, sad la
Plata. The departures have been six, viz., the Aver
Malabar, Fulton, Tamar, Tagus, and Orinoco.
The director and the reeponaible editor of the
Pastier., the radical journal of Owl* in Sardinia, bas
been condemned to 16 days hoprimonneent end 2001 r. ins Es
an article offensive to the Emperor of the French.
AI:REST OP AN ENGLISHMAN IN PABIS.--We
understand that one of the sons of Mr. Aldermen Skids, 611
a recent visit to Paris, was placed under arrest or the ee•
veillanoe of the pollee, as a suspected politioel refugee, eat
that he did not regain complete freedom of action WWI a
telegraphic communication had takenptaee with Notangbuse
making inquiries respecting him.—al offing/barn lowtot