The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MA,RCH 11,., 1858.

no right and no wish to speculate oaths issue of '
recent legislation in France but, valuing as we' do
the alliance of the Government of PAM—let litst
Government be vested in whist holds it Mix—

we deeply regret that the Marimba has

fit to inaugurate a system of high-handed
repression which seems more biely than any-
thing else to array against him the public
feeling of a high-epirited, an intelligent, and
• nano trot people. But if this policy must be re-
garded as of doubtful success in Fnueoe, what can
be expected from the endeavour to extend its in-
fluence elsewhere ? If a Law of Public Safety is but
a hazardeas experiment on the other side of the
thannel, what element of safety could have been
hand in the enactment of a oouspieacy Bill here P
Supposing the eountry had not risen against the

saenre-:-cruppese Lord Pautxmon's Bill had,
without stodifieatioo, become the law of the land—
what wield have been the result in the way of in-
creased safety to the Emperor Of the French? The
law, if passed, would have had to be worked in
British courts, before British juries, according to
the rules of British evidence and procedure. Spies
might have got up the case, nnaifted testi-
mony might have passed for proof before
the police magistrate, but when once arraigned
at the tar of our criminal courts, with an English
.edge to preside, English advocates to defend, and
twelve good men and true to make deliverance on
their oaths, the matter would bare assumed a dif-
ferent aspect. There would have been " delays ; "
there would have been " loopholes." Suspicions
would have had to give place to facts—every state-
ment would have been tested, every eircumstance
weighed ; illegal or insufficient evidence would have
been rejected; the eager detective and the hireling
spy would have shrunk up withered and bleated
under the searching fire of crone-examinatice ; and
the charge,which in the Imperial tribunals would have
infallibly consigned the accused to the hulks or to
Algeria, would have ended in the English Courts in
the signal and ignominious defeat of the prosecutor.
The letter of the law is one thing ; the spirit in which
the law is worked out is quite another thing. No
British jury would be found to convict, except on the
clearest and most irresistible evidence, when the
offence charged was not an actual crime committed
or abetted, but an alleged conspiracy to commit one.
But could this be understood, or would it be allowed
for, in France? Would TROPLONO, or Dc MORN Y, be
satisfied with a law the working of which only led
to results so abortive ? Would they not find in it a
fresh ground for remonstrance—the material far new
demands—an unanswerable reason for further con-
cessions ? Our firm conviction is that unless we were
prepared to change not only the text of our laws
relating to conspiracy, but all our rules of evidence,
all our methods of procedure, and the entire spirit of
oar criminal administration, we should utterly fail
to satidy the authors of the new' Lol de Sureti
Pubiies.

The pending trial of BERNARD stands on a dif-
ferent footing ; the charge against him relates to
acts done with a view to the perpetration of a crime
actually committed. Whatever the verdict of the
jury may ultimately be—and it could be wished that
certain Ministers and Journalists would have the
decorum to abstain from pronouncing him guilty till
the jury have decided—they will at all events have
tangible facts to grapple with, supported by tangible
proof. The case of mere conspiracy which has sever
eventuated in acts comes obviously under quite
another category. It is this latter offence for which
the Palmerstonian organs are so urgent that specific
provision should be made, and it is to the impolicy,
the uselternese, and the danger of attempting to
make any such provision that our remarks are in-
tended to apply. Let those whom it concerns be
well assured that the country will have nothing to
do with a Conspiracy Bill.

“ SOLIDARITY.”

(THANOLATZD 7/LOY TN3

The English journals tell us that the Invalids
Buss. is scolding England, because she persists in
not quitting those ancient foundations upon which
bar strength and glory have been raised, and because
she means to judge foreigners of all nations, sojourn-
ing as her guests, by her " common law," and not
according to the instructions of any police or the
denunciations of spies in the pay of the governments
they represent.
What, then, is this opinion? Is it that of the
Rand= government, or merely that of the Inralide
In the latter case, it concerns us very little,
although we think it indecorous thus to prostitute
the name of Russia, by making it serve incessantly
to give an extra momentum for every blow of the
axe, and serve as a makeweight to tighten the hang-
man's rope. We have not yet quite forgotten the
passionate tenderness, the touching perseverance,
with which Nicholas demanded of Turkey the extra-
dition of Kossuth and his companions.
But if it be the opinion of Oortchakoff's cabinet,
we cannot forbear remarking that we regard it as
unworthy of the present state of affairs in Russia.
Cannot you desist then from this incessant putting
yourself forward, and showing your sympathy with
all savage power, all violence, all contempt of right,
and bonds of every kind? Let us wean the West
from its habit of pronouncing the name of Russia,
together with the knout, in one and the same breath.
What interest urges you on ? Is it possible you do
not comprehend that a state
.just entering upon a
new era, full of youth and vitality, cannot share all
the vices of nations in their decline?

England has set a great example of morality and
governmental strength. England is the only coun-
try where justice is found. And you presume to
give her advice, to express to her your discontent—
you, who have neither rights nor laws !—you, who
cannot succeed in preventing your judges from being
thieves, or your nobles from taking the rod as their
standard, or your police from striking the people in
the open streets !

Take rather England for your pattern, and mind
your own business. ISCANDER.
[From the Itobkol, of March 1, 1858, a Russian journal,
pnatad and pablishod in London every fortnight.]

PROPOSED ExHismoN IN 1881.—A special meet-
ing of the Council of the Society of Arts was held yesterday
(Wednesday) evening, fur the consideration of this subject.
The discoidal occupied the whole evening, and was ad-
journed to Wednesday, the 24th inst.
TAE Aaciirracrs' BENZFOLENT SOCIETY.—The
=mud genets' meeting of the supporter, of this institution,
' which was established to benefit those engaged profiessionally
ht all branches connected with architecture, their widows
sad children, was held yesterday in the board-room of the
Royal Inatittulon of 13ntish Architects, 16, Grosvenor-Mame.
Mr. Sidney Smirks, president of the society, occupied the
chair. Mr. Terser, the secretary, read the minutes of the pie -
Mous meeting es dm the general and financial report, which
showed that tileilenstimessead annual subscriptions had mete.
really exoseded Shoes et the previous year, though the number
of subscribers was Mill small compared with the number =-
pied in tbs prehrks. Alter the report hod been agreed
te, the seembary read the auditor'. repast, which showed
that the neelpts of thae=year—inelufieg -previous balance
of 501. 6e. 2d. ; the 1261. M. ; donations, 761.
11s. 7d. ; and dividends, &ire: 104.--sessunted to 3291.
19e. Id. ; from whieh refirdned hassles et 631. lb. ;
there wee 7861. 6e. 3.1. in thihmds, sad subscriptamm duc
amounting to 671. 114. 3d. Mons wen sleeted for the
en-
wieg year, eat Menke voted to the president and council,
the hon. see., end the chairman at the meeting.
Tug KINIINOTON 0011‘ EITAT/L—The total
expeditors en the Kaseigess sew awe is pia a ro-
tas to the Hewes of Ceemeses tweet yeetnedes
sant is 312.0001. of which 296,0001., wee bid ad try Ohs
Ceeemiesioners. and the remainder by the *ems mat
of this, 206,01101. men vets' psdlasissi sa
=mtu'oaakrioss. The principal item et"
par to hare been, for purchase of rtes sdeleiVftrum.*4
is not the whole sum that will have to he rid) ; laying sat
the grounds, 15,000!.; museum, 16,0001.

gbc troun.

oiliD401„ Kama* 10.
Her 1140ty and Use Royal walked 111, the
cree.eiavgaieriay. . 4
:Ms PA.* d Wales visited Mace AU* i ilverlaa

The Quaa's &ttor party hicludel Ma Poe of Waft,
Virecatat eydesy, Mx Jams Clark sal Mr. Gibbs.

The se of VIM= bed ink iniseriew with the Zwl
Derby yesterday at Isis Whig noldesca Dornag-earset.
A deputation, otnialing of the calms of the =
Week Ham, had eAtetervlew with theßight Wm. T.
Beicourt yesterday et the tan of the Pearl or Beard.
• &paw ion on street-walking, isight-homme, and brothals,
had anlaterview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at
the Hemp °face. The deputation, erldah was Introduced by
the following members of whammed, is., Mr. Bonet Ban-
bury, Mr. D. Nicoll, and Mr De Lew Boos, coseined of—
Prom the 'Wonky of St. Alia Be Raw. I. B. Knape,
MA., Bettor, the H
2:4g, Masms.
Ganda, Mistress, Coop"
Crane (oharchwardtteell=wariten),
Beams vp. eta, Stroud (vestry alert),
sod M. (seriatim' vestry clerk) ; from the vestry
of Chaises, . Watkins ; frees the vestry of IL
Mr. Mould end Mr. Edwards; boa the vestry ofirg=
and Bloomsbury, Messrs. Cowie and Osamu •; from the
=St. Munn, the Rev. Mr. Humphrey (vie=
(churchwarden), and Mr. Deagerield miry
• ; from the vestry of St. Mweetass, Bev. T.
(rector of Trinity), Sir lames Mtn Himefton (down church-
warden), and Kr. W. B. Greenwdl (vestry dirk); from the
vestry of Paddington, Means. Shaw end Dicimentie; from
the vestry of St. Pancras, Mr. Wyatt (chweetrawket), Mr.
Cameron, the Rev. R. Eckert, and Mr. G. W. F. Cook
(entry clerk).
Dispatchem from the Governors of the North Amarken
Provinces wen received yeeterday at the Colostal-office.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
bed a dinner party, last evening, at her residence in the
Ambusador's Court, Bt. James's Palace. The Prinoses
Mary, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minieter, Visoonnt
Canterbury, Lord sad Lady Rokeby, Lord John Manners,
MaJor-Gasseml and Lady Alice Peal, Lady Georgians
Bathurst, Baron Enseabeck, Colonel the Hon. Cecil W.
Forester, Mr. H. Grevilis, tc., were of the drain

The Countess of Derby had a reception last night
at the noble Premises residence in St. Jamstersquare.
Their Royal Highnesses the Daiwa of Cambridge and the
Prisms Mac, attended by Lady Georgians Bathurst and
Myer Hesse Purees, honoured her ladyship by their oom-
pay, shortly after sierra o'clock. His Royal Highness the
Dub of Cambridge else attended the reaction. Previously
to her ladyship's reception the noble earl and =Was en-
tertained at dinar the Marquis and Merchiosess of Salis-
bury, the Bari of Malmesbury, the Bal of Carnaaca,
Irimonatam Lugar% Yiecotmt Chelsea, the Lord Chancellor
and Lady Chelmsford, and Hon. Min Meager, the Right
Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli, Hon. P. Lycra, Colonel
Wilbraham, Mr. airborne Hardy, M.P., Mr. Cayley, M.P.,
sad Mr. George John Caylsy, &o.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland arrived
at Nardunnbariand Home yesterday eftentooe, from Stan-
Irk& Park, Yorkshire, for House,
mason.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have issued
weds for a geoid dinner, on the 17th inst., to their Royal
Ingimmess the Dachas of Cambridge and the Princess
Mazy, aft Stafford Hones.

The Marchioness of Salisbury will have an
ammnbly this 'maim at the Gunny mansion in Arlington-
skint.

The Earl of Carlisle will arrive in town this
swain& from Dublin. The noble earl will stay with
the Duke sad Duchene of Sutherland daring his sojourn la
loos.

The Earl of Eglinton will leave London by
gnaw train this morning for Holyhead, en route to
Dublin, to OWE ea his duties as Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land.

The Countess of Jersey'. party for to-morrow
main, Is postpcsted, on account of the death of a near
relation.

The Bari and Countess of Bradford and Miss
Mesas s hays arrived in Halgravrequare, from Weatan
Hall, BtallirBelane.

Lady Onsrstone will have an assembly to-morrow
weals& at dm family madam in Carlton-gardens.

The Right Hon. Edward eardwell,M.P., and Mrs.
Cardwell bad a dinner party lest evoking at their =aim in
Eaten-equars._

We are informed that a marriage is about to be
sohnunited very shortly between the Hon. Richard ChM-
wynd, eldest son of Viscount Chstwynd, and Miss Campbell,
Most daughter of Mrs. Welts'. Campbell.
DEATH OP LADY Gunton PAOET.—We lament
to sanoonce the premature demise of this actoompllshed lady,
who attired yesterday, a taw boors after her aooouchement,
to the inszpremitie grief of her husband and s wide circle
at Meads. Lady George wee the daughter of the We
efr Arthur Peg*, formerly Governor of Chelsea Hospital,
and wag married to her cousin, Lord George Paget, only
in 1104.

RR; BRINUIT RICHARDS' CONCIRT.

Mr. Richards has commenced a series of Soirees
for the perforommee of demical pianoforte maaita the Ent of
which win given last weaning, at the Beethoven Rooms in
Hariey-etreet. The fallowing programme will show that
the anesrminmeat ens precisely what it peofeesed to be. •

- - -
PAR, I.
am& In V. 'lmpanel, and violin, Mr. Illobarde and
la. H. Swan Beethoven.
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The two parts of the concert were each begun with an
early work of Beethoven
_; both of them beautifully clear,
crisply sad ernmetrical, but marked with the bold
eiteets and traits of individuality which marked the
great master's style from the very outset of his career.
They were admirably played both by Mr. Richards and his
two ooadjutors—Mr. Blasters and M. Pape. Mr. Richards's
great achievement woe Clementirs grand sonata far the piano
alone. This sonata is Clemente, chef ir retort, and shows
that, when he wrote it, he was far in advance of his sge. It
is emßed a "soma begins," end is an attempt to paint the
stem of extending passions in the brass* of the forsakes
QOM' of Carthage. It is a surprising effort of genius, not
unworthy of Beethoven himself, whose most modem music
it resembles, not only in its originality and boldness, bat in
its wild and passionate expression. Mr. Richards trium-
pisently OVIWORMO its immense difficulties, and showed him-
self to be a performer of the first class.
The two vocal pieces were beautifully sung by Miss
Meant. Mandars air is one of the gems which have been
recently dug from the mins of his forgotten Italian operas.
Mr. Richards's sacred sang, "The Pilgrim's Path," is con-
' tabbed M the very elegant petbliostion which has recently
, appeared, entitled "Brinley Rkhards's New Vocal Album."
It is a Sas composition, in which Heber's solemn and affect-
ing thoughts are clothed with congenial melody. Miss
Masent gave toll (act to its character and expression, and
her performance was warmly encored. The rooms were
crowded to the doors with elegant company.

DRAMA.

ADELPHI.

An Hour in Sevilk, the playing of which, how-
ever, occupied nearly two in the Strand, is the title of an
exceedingly elaborate and smartly written sketch, in which
Mr. Selby finds place for the display of all the grsoes and all
the talents of Mrs. Barney Williams. As Miss Constantin
Flitterly she ham captivated a Mr. Pyefinch, but that gentle-
man, cooling in his ardour, bests a retreat, sad sets off on the
tom, of Europe. The audience are introduced to him in
Seville, whither his inamorata has followed image., deter-
mined to recover him by a snot onion of hot and cold applica-
tions, the effect of which is at 'set to make him fly into the
srms of his first love with an intense sense of relief. As
Mr. Whifiletan Whiffles, an English West-end man
of the fastest variety, she extinguishes him by her
high ton and her eloquent disquisitions on beer, end
then, as an Italian prima donna, she awakens in his breed a
new passion by her gram and her melody. She frightens
him as the Donna's husband, and when be is Just recovering
Sow this scrape, again entraps him se a Spanish Ballerina,
in which character she gives a capital imitation of the
dewing of Peres Nona. Sabseqttently she re-appears as a
Matador furious with Jealousy, and Mr. Pyefinch is once
awe thrown into a paroxysm of fear and perplexity.
Finally she returns to her original Yankee personality, and
bar lover is glad to get rid of all his troubles by returning to
his allegiance. The whole burthen of the piece rested upon
Mrs. Barney Williams, but that lady proved herself folly
equal to the task of sustaining it. Her acting was admirable
throughout, end the rapidity with which she changed her
dries, end with it her whole manner, end even voice, was
something wonderful. She wee tremendously applauded
mad celled before the contain at the end of the piece. The
scathe also was honoured with a call, and had the gratifica-
tion of announcing his piece for every evening until further
notice, amid the general sociamations of the audience.

I LATESI IN fELLIuENCE.

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN

I FRANCE.

Off lIIIIMMLINII AND 1111TIJI TIIL101A1i•)
(MOM 001 QWW OORIZIPONDIirrj

PARIS, TaxrasDAY.

The Moniteur of this day states that on the
24th ult. arrests were simultaneously made in
1, ions parts of France, which defeated culpable
projects, and led to the discovery and the seizure
of arms, ammunition, and compromising correspon-
denoe. The arrests, however, have been exagge-
rated. They are limited to fifty principal ring-
leaders at Paris, twenty at Lyons, twelve
at Marseilles, and four on an average in forty
departments. In spite of this precaution a gathering
took place at Paris on the night of the 6th of March.
Firm and vigilant measures caused it to prove
abortive, and led to twenty new arrests.
The affray at Chalonr, says the Mositsur, is in-
disputably part of a plan of systematic agitation.