The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TI7FSDAir KVENING, JULY 3, ISM

of the Holy Office, were not undertaken for the
sake of oppressing individuals, but to deter
and disfranchise whole sections of society. No
semblance of fair arbitration founded on the pro-
tective principle of the jury--no admixture of
men identified with the accused in habits, thoughts,
or avocations, marked this Court of High Com-
mittee. It was conceived for the purpose of ob-
taining such a sentence against the mass of the
hard-toiling and tax-paying community as would
furnish an excuse for denying them the enjoyment
of their inherent rights as loyal and intelligent
citizens, thus securing to the class from which
their irresponsible accusers and judges were ex-
clusively taken a renewed lease of their monopoly
of power and pay. Great efforts were made to
pack the Committee with tried and trusty acme.
&arise, who would neither tire nor trim in the
working out of the design. And luckily for the
full elaboration of the scheme, this part of the
plan of its benignant author wee in some degree
frustrated in the very outset. Ministers, ashamed
of baying complied with the motion for a Com•
mittee which was avowedly meant to make out a
cam against their competency end judgment, became
soddenly .tiffnecked about the choice of indivi-
duals who should compose it ; and through
some immaturity in the alliance between
the anti-reforming Whigs and the anti-
reforming Tories, Lord °AZT was unable to
secure the preponderance he desired amongst the
persons chosen, though backed by Lord Deasy
and his friends. And thus it came to pass that
this curious and cunningly contrived machine,
which was to be charged in secret with the deadliest
elements, and whose timely explosion would, it
was calculated, prove certainly fatal to the pre-
sent generation of Reformers, had in it from the
commencement a flaw, which contributed to the
disappointment and discomfiture of the projectors.
So long, indeed, as the occasional appearance of
a little dust in the distance justified the supposi-
tion that a Reform Bill was on its way through
the Commons, their lordships of the Committee of
Accusations were content to sit with closed doors
for several hours together two or three times a
week. The result of their sinister labours we
shall see in due time. Probably, as matters now
stand, there will be as little disposition to hasten
its production as there was in the case of the
correspondence respecting the Indian Army. To
plain folks out of doors it seems a thing wholly in-
comprehensible how papers, of which Parliament
and the public have a right to be put in possession
within a few days after they are ordered to be
printed, can be kept back by dint of undetectable
and indescribable dodgery for weeks—nay, evenfor
months together. But this is one of the cones-
quences of administration being always kept in the
hands of the old set of right divine officials. Lord
GRAY was as remarkable when in office as his
relative Sir Ciciamoi WOOD for his dexterous tar-
diness in this respect ; and it is not likely that his
right hand has yet forgotten its cunning. We may
possibly have to wait, therefore, some time for
the precious document. Meanwhile it is no
secret that the Committee has dosed its in-
quiries without being able to agree to any recom-
mendations in the form of a report Reform is no
longer on the Parliamentary road, so those who lie
in wait for it have felt themselves free to take to
differing among themselves as to what should have
been done with it had it ever come up. The newel
barrels, instead of going off with a grand cannonade,
lie disjointed and out of position, only half loaded,
and apparently deserted even by their worthy in-
ventor. There they may possibly remain till next
Session, when another opportunity of mischief is
certain to be afforded, it is to be hoped at a period
of the year leas calculated to give rise to suspicions
of mockery. But in the interests of humanity
and public peace we must suggest that it is
hardly fair. prudent, or consistent with decency,
that this collection of missiles should be allowed
to be kept for the purposes of ambush at
some future period, when the world will have well
nigh forgotten their existence. We want to me
the evidence printed which Lords Our and
Hum have with closed doors been collecting
against the people. We hope there are some
members of the Committee who will have the can-
dour to move forthwith that it be laid upon the table
of the Pears, and then that it be placed without delay
in Mr. HANSARD'S hands. If the people have not
had the fairness of a trial, or the justice of an
acquittal, the least that they can ask is the
benefit of knowing what stories have been told in
their disparagement and defamation. This much,
at all events, they are entitled to, not at the
option of Lord Daisy or the caprice of Lord
Geer, when and how either or both of these
accuser-judges may choose ; but as matter of
common right and public equity, which must not
and cannot be wholly trodden down by the aris-
tocratic heel of reaction. The public demand will
not be satisfied in this matter by vague and evasive
mutterings in high places,—that it was understood
the evidence was to be printed, and that no doubt
it will be in due time. We do not feel at all so
sure of anything of the kind ; on the contrary,
we think it will be•anything but superfluous to
renew our call for its production until it be pro-
duced. And this we say now and say advisedly
—let it be published fully as well as promptly,
without garbling, asterisks, or blanks instead of
names. We want to have the fullest opportunity
of sifting the imputations, whatever they may have
been, made behind backs, against the people ; and
if there is any spirit of justice or fair play among
their self-appointed judges, they will afford ample
and immediate facilities for the refutation and
exculpation hitherto nude impossible.

ClNece BI LL —MIMORIAL TO LORD PALM .&STON.
—We are requestod to state that the moues of Mr. C. C.
Clifford (Isle of Wight), G. G. Glyn (Shaftesbury), and
Sir John Owen, But (Pembroke), were accidentally omitted
from the list of members of parliament who signed this
memorial.

Colonel Stuart, on Thursday, will ask the Secre-
tary of Mate for Foreign Affairs, whether her majesty's
Joverionent have taken, or are prepared to take, any steps
in concert with the Fritsch government, to {invent the
bombardment of Naples by the Kim'. troops, in the event
of General tianteldre soddenly occupying that eity as he
did Paletlllo.

On Friday Mr. Raines intends to oak the Secre-
tary of Slate for the Home Department whether, consider-
* the advanced period of the semion, and the great inform,
taken in the roam Bill for England, he will Az an early
day for going into committee on that maims.

A crowded meeting wee held in the Town-hell,
Mrliditon, lad night, against the Lords' aggression. The
awaletions were ...wried unanimously, and • politica was
adepied praying the Commons to take steps to misdeal the
rigida sad privile,se et the people. Mr. Coniashans,M.P.,
mid Mr. James White spoke. The en-mayor (Mr. J. O.
Burr•ws) presided, ia the absence at the mayor (Mr. W.
Algae), who is ill.

itiht ITN:MALL PREACHIAS. "—The Lord Bishop of
London, aa Dean of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, has Demi.
mated the following to the office of " White-
hall presehen" for tCairme o Jean 1111 the
nut ensuing (commencing
from the :11.1th ult.):—L The Rev. William Ince, M.A.,
Hub.Recter mod Fellow and Tatar of Exeter College, to be
the preacher from the Undversity of Oxford, in succession
tothe key. Adorn Storey Parise, M.A., Yellow of Queen's
Coneg f C and 2, the Rev. William Emery, 8.0. Yellow and
Tutor oorpus Christi College, to be the preacher from the
invennty of Cernheidge, re imecessine to the Rev. Frede-
rick lien, I , Fellow of Chekt Colin*, sod Domestic
Cluiplain to the Bishop of Leaden.

gbc Iftiurt.
The Queen went yesterday afternoon So the first
prise emoting of the National Ride Association as Wimble-
don Gostmen.

The Royal procession quitted Buckingham Palace at five
minutes before 3 o'clock in seven carriages and four, 'A-
lluded by outriders in scarlet liveries, and escorted by a de-
tachment of Light Dragoons.

The flat csrtrisge end four conveyed the Queen, the Plbee
Consort, the Princess Alice, and the Duke of Saxe Cobourg.
The mecca carriage lainveyed the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Helena, the Mistress of the Robes, and the Master
of the Hone.

The third carriage conveyed Prince Arthur and the
Princess Lades, the Countess of Gainaborough, Lady la •
Waiting, end the Lord Steward.
The fourth carriage conveyed Prince Leopold, the Lady
Superintendent, and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the
Hon Horatio Stopford, Maids of Honour in Waiting.
The fifth carriage conveyed the Right Hon. Sir G. C.
Lewis, Secretary of State for the Home Department; the
Lord Chamberlain, Lord De Tabley, Lord in Waiting ; and
Lord Waterpork, Lord in Waiting to the Prince Cowart
The sixth carriage conveyed Major-oeosnl the Ham R.
Brace, Governor to the Prince of Wales ; Major-General
the Hen. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting; Colonel the
Hon. A. Harding., Equerry in Waiting to the Prince
Consort ; and Baton liochwaechter, in Waiting to the
Duke of Saxe Cobourg.
The seventh carriage and four conveyed Lieutenant-
Colonel Kingsoote, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Francis
Seymour, C.K, Groom in Waiting to the Prince Consort ;
Coptoin Grey, Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales ;
and Major Elphingoise, in Waiting on Prince Arthur.
The Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke
of Saxe Cobourg, wore the Riband and Badge of the Order of
the Garter ; and the Earl of St. Germans (Lord Steward)
the Riband and Badge of the Ordee of the Both.
The Queen and Priam Consort received addresees from
the council of the amociation. Afterwards her Majesty
inaugurated the meeting by firing the first shot, and re-
turned to Buckingham Palace soon after seven o'clock.

The Queen and Prince Consort, the Princes Alice, the
Prince of Wales, and the Dukeof Mese Cobourg, rode on
horseback in the forenoon attended by the Hon. Horatio
Stopford, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the
Hon. A. Herbage.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, end the Duke of Saxe
(..bbourg, honoured the performance of the Olympic Theatre
last evening with their presence. The royal suits coos red
of the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hoe. Hort=
ford, Lord De Tapley, Major-General the Hon.
Grey, Colonel the Hoe. A. Hardinge, Captain Grey, and
Baron Hochweechter.

Mr. Joseph Wyon has had the honour to submit for the
inspection of the Queen and the Prince Consort impressions
from the die of his medal to commemorate the opening of
the Victoria Bridge in Canada. The Prince of Wales had
penvional honoured Mr. Wpm with sittings for this medal.
Major ~3e~eral the Has. Charles Grey and Colonel the
Has. A. Hardbp have relieved Ma or-General Seymour
mid LientensinW.olona tie Hon. D. de Roe in their duties
satire Equerries in Waiting to the Queen and Prince Con-
sent. Captain are► baa succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel
Heppe' as the Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Her-
bert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
GT. Milner Gibson, Sir George rey, the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell.

A meeting of the Council of the Duehy of Cornwall wee
held yesterday, at the Duchy office, Ruckinghamgate, St.
James aparlt. There were present—The Chancellor, Lord
Ringadown; the Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir William
Dauber; the Attorney-General, air William J. Alexander;
the Treasurer, Colonel the Rom Mr C. B. Phipps; the Duke
of Newcastle, Lord Portman, and the Secretary, Mr. James
R. Gardiner.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office, yesterday,
from the governors of Haag Haag, Ceylon, and Gibraltar.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prime
Consort, with the Printer Alice and the younger members
of the royal family, will leave Buckingham Palace to-mor-
row, instead of Saturday, as originally mentioned, fur
Osborne, to par several weeks at the Queen's marine resi-
dence.

Their Royal Highnesses the Durham of Cam-
bridge, the Hereditary Grand Dinibess of Mecklenburg-
&relit; and the Princess Mary honoured the Luke and
Duchess of Wellington with their eastpany at dinner last
evening at Apsley House. A select iwrty assembled after
dinner.

His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countase Bernatorff will give a grand entertainment to.
morrow at Prumia House to his Royal Highnma the Duke
of (antaidge and the chief members of the Cabinet. The
countess will "mealy," in the evening.

Lady Howard's morning party to moot their
Royal Righaseise the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prinoess
Mary of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Daeheis of
ilficklenburg-Strelits. will take place at Craven Cottage,
Fulham, km the 10th inst. ; and her ladyship's ante dan•
sante, in Belgrave-equare, on the 19th.

_ .
The Duchess of Montrose gave her first soirk
danivaate last evening at the family mansion in Belgrave-
square. The company began to arrive about 11 o'clock.
The Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein honoured the duchess
with kis company, arriving about 11 o'clock.

The EarlanCounttse of Eglinton have left the
Clarendon for EgUnion C.tstle, N.B.

The Earl and Countess Grey have left town for
Ail-is-Chapelle.

The Lail of Yarborough has sailed in his yacht
from Cowes on a cruise in the Channel. The countess and
Lady Sophia Pelham ace expected in town in a few days.

Lord John Manners has arrived at the Queen's
Hotel, Upper Norwood.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening, et her residence in Eaton.place, his Excellency
Count Bernstorff, his Excellency the Marquia d'Azegho, his
Excellency Coast Vitxthum, Lady Emily Foley, the
Countess of Clangsll and Lady Matilda Butler, the Earl of
Longford, the Earl of Wilton, Viscountess Combermere,
Viscount and Viscountess Boyne, Viscount Torrington,
Lady Dufferin, Lord Reveasworth, Lord and Lady Forester,
Lord Detamers, and the Hoa. Mr. and Mrs. Coventry.

Profeoulor A. J. Scott, of Owen's College, Mau-
cheater, delivered last night, In the theatre of the Maryle-
loons Institution, the first of a series of four lectures on
• Philosophy sod Revelation."

A grand archery fete will commence to-morrow
at Beth, and promisee to be a very attractive gathering.
Archers, both ladies ■nd gentlemen, are expected to attend
in large number, from all parte of the country, to compete
for numerous and valuable prism

The offioers of the 16th (Queen's) Lancers had
their annual dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday
last. Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir L Coat, E.C.H.,
colonel of the regiment. presided, and was supported by Sir
Thomas White, Colonel Poster, %ler Whits, Major Arm-
strong, Captains Spicer, Irrine, Banday, Grant, Annesley,
Barron, Riddell, Dynan, Halton, Ito.
We are glad to observe that a 'Aviles' Association
has been formed in London for the Relief of the Sick and
Wounded, Widows and Orphans, of Garibaldi's Followers,
and sufferers at Palermo and other places. None of the
mosey will be applied to warlike purposes, but solely to
those of charity and benevolence. The subscriptions when
collected will be at on.m transmitted to General Garibaldi,
who will and the proper agents fur the distribution of the
same. The London Central Committee el the Association
will be happy to communicate with such local committees
of ladies as may he formed for the same purpose throughout
the country. The lady president of the association is the
ccsat 2( Elhafte4bury. Pia ricrac* Nightingale has
sataeribsd

The newly-married Prince and Princem de Po-
Apes ere mend* the honeymoon near Marmilles, at •
deensing ommery seat Woofing to IL Nixes dose to the
see.

The Cur respondancia, a semi-official organ at
Madrid. couarsas the fact of the Cooat de liontemolin and
' Dom ramostir burin retracted the renunciation of their
rights to the throw, which they 11411011 at Tunas. It
eseeribes thb neraciatioa as "ridiculous and degrading,"
cad eheseres titek though in making it, "the two princes
may, as they say, have Won the advice of eminent juris-
eraselts. they esekaiskr dial not consult men of honour."
71e Supsous ami sem journals also condemn the document
in Arm Nom

LAIESI' INTELLIGENUE.
NAPLES.
The Naples correspondent of the Prase, in
letter of June 25, says that the proclamation of
the constitution pleased nobody ; it was at oboe re-
gretted by the government as being a concession to
the people, and by the people because its object is
to maintain the government. The Count of
Syracuse is reported to have said to a friend of the
writer, "They would not give way when I advised
them to do so, and now it is too late ; they will fall
all the same."—" Only," said a diplomatist, who
beard the remark, "they winnow fall out of a first
door window instead of a second."

The three members of the King's Council who
voted against granting a constitution were M.
Troya, who was Prime Minister at the time of
King Ferdinand's death ; M. Scorza, Minister of
Ecclesiastical Affairs ; and General Caracoaaa.
The following is the text of the royal proclama-
tion placarded in Naples at au early hour on
June 25 :

ROVIRZIGN ACT.

Desiring to give to our well-beloved subjects a testimonial
of our sovereign good will, we have resolved to concede con-
stitutional and representative orders of the kingdom in
harmony with national and Italian principles, in order to
guarantee security and prosperity for the future, and to
draw still closer the ties which tinite us to the peoples whom
Providence has called us to govern.
With this view we have come to the following deter-
minations:

1. We grant • general amnesty for all political offence•
committed up to this day.
2. We have charged the Comminder Spinelli to form •
new ministry, which will prepare, with the shortest possible
delay, articles of • statute on the basis of Italian and
national institutions.

3. An understanding will be come to with the King of
Sardinia in the common interest of the two crowns in Italy.
4. Our flag will henceforth be ornamented (fregiatn) with
the national Italian colours in three vertical bands, the
arms of our dynasty being maintained in the centre.
5. With regard to Sicily, we grant analogous represent"•
tive institutions of • nature to satiety the wants of the
island, and • prince of our royal how will be the viceroy.
Portici, June 26, 1860. nasals.

NAPLES, Juir 2.

The fundamental point of the programme of the
Commander Spinelli is the formation of an Italian
Confederation as recommended by the Emperor of
the French. This Confederation to be essentially
of a defensive character, and the autonomy of
every state to be maintained, although national
unity would be favoured.

hap. be allowed to associate myself to the wishes so ele-
gantly expressed by my boo. friend, and to add a few
plain words. No doubt the instinct of self-preservation
urges governments se well as individuals to those resolutions
which at a first glies• seem the most desperate. A drown-
ing man, hap of any other escape, will, in the agony of
death, cling to Sad catch at any object within his reach.
therefore, can well understand that the government of
Naples, which up to this moment was always the most
fierce and implacable foe to Italian nationality—that go-
vernment which, with the mod cowardly obetinacy. parse.
cutest the generous men who aspired to that common object,
should now all at once change its language, and put forth
words of independence, patriotism, and nationality, seeking
the protection and refuge of this government, sod suing, at
least, for its moral support. Gentlemen, I have often seen
men laden with the most hideous crimes, when brought
before the court which is to try them, and unable to deny
their offences, pot forward wards of compunction and re-
pentance. Each government, gentlemen, has its traditions,
from which it cannot depart. We need no argument to be
convinced of this truth. The traditions of 'the Neapolitan
government are hereditary perjury. The new king,
almost to prove the legitimacy of his descent, is preparing
to perjure himself ; and, in order to qualify himself for
the task of forswearing himself, he must fast swear. It is
with that view that he declares himself ready to swear
constitutions and alliances. His object in proposing an
alliance with the king's government is obvious. He is only
meditating the reconquest of Sicily. These are the old
fox-like wiles of the Neapolitan government. As these have
thrice availed them, they hope even now, from the same arta,
to attain the same results. But, if these are very clearly the
intentions of the government of Naples, there is also no
doubt but the government of the king—of that king who
for the Let 12 years has held aloft the banner of Italian na-
tionality, will never desert itspost, never will associate itself
with a faith-breaking government, a government by the
nature of its very institutions an implacable foe to Italian
regeneration. I therefore trust that the king's ministers,
following up that national Italian policy which they have so
nobly pursued heretofore, will never press the hand of that
government which has so long combated our independence,
waging against um that secret subterranean war which is
very often so much more injurious than an open war. As I
am intimately convinced that the King's government will
fulfil this sacred duty, a duty imposed upon them by all
their foregoing policy and by the future of Italy, as a mem-
ber of this parliament, whereon rest the hopes of Italy, I de-
clare that I give my full assent to this bill, being certain
that all the means entrusted to the government by the vote
of the representatives of the nation will always be em-
ployed for the increase of the public prosperity and for
the future welfare of Italy. (" Bravo! bravo ! " loud ap-
plause.)_

The loan was voted by a majority of 215 against 3.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDZWE.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Pays contains an article by M. Granier de
Cassagnac on "French Policy in Italy," from
which, if it is to be considered semi-official, the
satisfactory inference may be drawn that France
—while looking coldly upon Italian unity, and
strenuously protesting against any responsibility
for Garibaldi's adventurous projects—still main-
tains the principle of non-intervention. If the re-
forms which France has long counselled the King
of Naples to grant should now be realised, the
object of France will be attained. France wants
the "emancipation of Italy "—a thing which must
not be confounded with Italian unity. The Pays
reiterates the assurance that France will at any
cost maintain the conquest of Lombardy for
the benefit of Piedmont, but she is not
prepared to go farther. The writer says
that " all the rest is contingent and depends
upon the courage, prudence, union, and moderation
of the Italians. Possibly genius, foresight, and a
spirit of justice may ultimately turn dreams into
realities." These are very remarkable admissions
from a writer who from his antecedents is above all
suspicion of undue favour towards the Italian
cause. He shows his old animus in the conclusion
of his article, where he says that " as the moment
must come when Count Cavour must make up his
mind to resist utopias,' the sooner he begins the
better." Nevertheless, I believe it to be certain
that he will not begin by an alliance with Naples.
At the Bourse the Rente opened rather firm in
consequence, as it was said, of better uews from
Naples, but later in the day it was rumoured that
intelligence of a disquieting nature had been re-
ceived from that quarter, and the Reute, which had
been quoted at 68fr. 55c. declined to 68fr. 45c.,
closing, nevertheless, with a rise from Saturday of
15c. For cash there was also a rise of 15c., the
last price being 68fr. b6c. Mobilier ruse Mr. 75c.
In railways scarcely any change.
M. Berryer has received notice that the will case,
in which he is going to plead iu London, will be
called on before Sir C. Cromwell on July 16.
Queen Christina, accompanied by her husband,
the Duke de Rianzarea, their fatally, and suite,
have arrived at her villa at St. Adresse, near
Havre.

The regatta at Havre will take plaoe this year on
Sunday, September 9.