The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1867.

lievu that if it sholld ever again summon a Cortes,
such a body will re,issemble under conditions
which will leave it more than an echo of the
declared will of the QI'LEN.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

-.PEE(III..

The Tim, sees in the speeches of Mr. Milner
Gibson and Lord Ambefley, and it. the letter of Mr.
Villiers, further illustrations of the reticence which poli.
tieal personages like to observe on the evo of the session.
They have but little to say, and don't wish to say it.
Their great nnsiety is to keep themselves perfectly clear
for any cmrse that may be found be.•st. On one pout the
7' can go o•iite with Mr. Gibson, viz., when he say. that
11 the rea in!. alleged for the postponement of reform arc
:n t: ath the be-t r...sons fur its immediate settlehiont.
The supposed fonc.oftlis now wanting representation can,
not reasom.bly he desired to wait till our difficulties and
.ern are have been disposed of by the old parliament. If
they have a right to o•ore place and might in the legisla.
ture. the right is as good for one set of measures, or one
branch of legislefon, as another. Least of all can the
e....ting house el.dm to he allowed to do all that it has left

-I.lone. :Lod mend all that it has done ill. The principal
tion to Lord Anderly's speech, which was a very
pretty one, nevertheles4, is- -that it 14 by Lori Amberley.
Why should his lordship cont:ne his suggestions to the
house of which he has seen so little, And in which, in the
course of natm-e, he can only he a bird of passage'.'
Anyhow, the House of Commons, as it exists, is as good
as the Lords ; and if the one is to he reformed—off the
fact of the creation if necessary—what e:.emption or brace
cam be clalel for the other;

The 1.11 diFputes Lord A.uherley'm nrgnmeht that open
air reform demonstrations are unavoidable. The platform
..m1 the press, oar contomporary considers, are amply suf.
relent. Assinnibg it to be a grievance, as Lord Aniberley
calls it. that the wothing ton should he excluded from
the aniline, it follows that one working man has as good
a right to the franchise as another, so that by a strictly
seluence. the fears Lord Anderley will hnd
himself committed to manhood or universal suffrage.
In the opinion of the 11, rah!, anybody can see from Mr.
Gibson's speech that, although a reformer, he is not dis-
posed to make a clean sweep of the old ibstitutions of his
country, and substitute for them the ,rganisat:on of
French and German socialists; but for all that he is
working for and with the party that promises to make a
paradise of earth by acts of parlhuneut.

Mr. Gibson, says the Star, raised his voice manfully fur
" household suffrage." Henceforth there must be no
further attempts at conciliation. They would not only
fail to be appreciated, but would inevitably result in dis-
aster. What has now to be thought of is not what will
p:ea.se Lord Derby or his astute lieutenant, but what will
reasonably satisfy the just demands of the nation. It is
pretty evident that if the ministers bring in a reform bill,
they will, as the conservative member told Mr. tdbson,
create for themselves a new tave of Adullam as a refuge
for their less pliant followers ; and it is equally certain
that they could bring in no bill which would satisfy the
country without at once utterly sacrificing both their party
and their principles.

Mist Court.

OSBORNE, JAR. 30.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
walked and drove yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady
Waterpark ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this
morning, accompanied by Princesy Louise and Princess
Deatrice.

The other members of the royal family went out also.
Dr. Robertson arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had
the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family.

The Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of
Cermarthen, drove to Kew yesterday, and visited the
Duchess of Cambridge.
The Queen will hold a Council at Osborne on Saturday
next at one o'clocic

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-of cc
fro:, the Cov,rnors of Hoeg Kong, Ceylon, Labuan, end
Malta.

BANQUET TO LORD MONCX AT PORTSMOUTH.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNEbDAY

A complimentary banquet was given here this
evening to the Governor-General of Canada by Mr. Ema-
nuel, the mayor. His lordship formerly represented the
borough in conjunction with Sir F. Baring, and on his
arrival yesterday with Lady Monck the bells rung him a
hearty welcome. The banquet, which was of extreme
elegance, was given at the King's Rooms, Southsea, and
the company numbered about 100. Amongst them were—
The Mayor and Mayoress, Viscount and Viscountess
Monck. Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, G.C.8., Colonel
Fame, M.P., the Hon. Thomas Ryan, Mr. Bonham.
Carter, M.P., the Hon. Mr. 3Pllougall, Sir John
Simeon, M.l'., Mr. Simmonds, M.P., the Hon. Mr.
M'lmitald, the Mayor and Mayoress of Southampton,
tLe Ulm of Winchester, Admiral Sir George Mundy,
C. 8., Captaid Glyn, A,D,C., the Hon. Mr. Cartier, Colonel
Mould, Colonel .Tervoise, the Hwu, Mr. Howland, Admiral
Wellesley, Mr. W. If. Stone, M.P., Lord Eury, Captain
I lerbert, Captain Robinson, Captain Molesworth, Captain
Burgoyne, 8.N., &c.
Lord MoNcx, in returning thanks for his health, dwelt
upon his old connexion with the borough, and referred to
the history of the last ten years. With regard to the cold.
nice, he said he could remember when it was proposed to
allow the colonies to manage themselves. On two occa-
sions he had been compelled to throw himself on the
loyalty of the Canadians ; and the whole colony would
have been expended in defence of British territory—
though the quarrel was not theirs—if it had been required.

The Princess of Wales, attended by the Mar-
thioness of Carmarthen, drove to Kew yesterday, and
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
His Royal Highness the Prince do Joinville has
taken the late Dowager Duchess of Northumberland's reel-
deuce at Twickenham for the remaining term of years, and
is daily expected to return from the Cmitinent.

The Duke of Rutland is expected to arrive in
town on Monday next from Belvoir I 'male, in order to dine
with the Earl of Derby find the supporters of the govern-
ment, in Downing-street.
_ _

The Marchioness of Salisbury and family leave
Hatfield Houk, Herts, in a few days for town for the
season. The noble marquis will be among the guests of
Lord Derby on the 4th Feb.
The Earl and Countess Granville have arrived
in town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Manchester
at Kimbolton Castle, Hunts.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have ar-
rived in town from The Grove, near Watford, Herts.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN,—We
are informed by telegraph of the death of the Earl of Cam-
penlown, who expired yesterday at Weston, in Warwick-
shire, where his father-in-law has resided for a few months.
The deceased earl, when Lord Duncan, was member
for Bath from ISt' to and led an agitation which
resulted in the repeal of the window tax. His death was
preceded by an illness of some duration.
Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., arrived at his residence at
Blackheath Park on Tuesday last, and left for Scotland
yesterday, to deliver his inaugural address as rector of the
University of St. Andrew's.

The members for Oldham addressed a meeting
in the Town-hall, Oldham, last night. On the subject of
reform, Mr. Hibbert said the bill of last session might not
rise again, but a better one would. Mr. Platt also spoke
in favour of reform, but referred to the fact that the
miners of Scotland had elected Lord Elcho to sot for
them, to show that the working classes were not alto-
gether blameless in the matter. A vote of confidence was
unanimously wood by the meeting.

The Archbishop of York writes to the Tim's on
behalf of the Caniliote refugees, whom he describes as in
danger of perishing from starvation if funds for their sus-
tenance are not forthcoming. It is estimated that 14,0001.
would be sufficient to maintain them until they should
find new homes and employment. Of this sum one-half
has already been contributed by the British public and
the Greek community living in Britain, and was it too
much to hope that the rest might flow in ? " This,"
■gys the Archbishop, "is no question of politics. While
the men are fighting and perishing for a political con-
viction, we may join, whatever be our opinions, in pity-
ing the wives and widows and helpless babes, hurried off
to another land, huddled by tem and twelves into small
rooms or stables, almost naked, without fire by day or
light by night, with no other food than a morsel of bread,
and this likely to cease."

A meeting was held at the Mansion-house, Dub-
lin, yesterday, in favour of railway reform, and resolutions
adopted approving of the purchase of Irish railways by the
government.

A correspondent "at Shanghai notices how the
history of India is slowly and gradually being reproduced
in China :—" An Englishman h.ui charge of an arsenal at
Nankin, and other Englishmen are teaching the viceroy's
troops the rudiments of drill. An Englishman commands
a small disciplined corps at Ning-po, and now Frenchmen
are about to establish an arsenal and gunboats at Foochow,
under the auspices of a coalition prompted by jealousy of
the power of IA-hung-chang and Tsen-kwo-fan. Officers
of the same two nations disciplined the troops and officered
the guns of rival satraps in India. Is the result to be the
same r

On Sunday Princess Mathildo gave a concert, at
which all the ministers, Marshal I 'Anrobert, the Belgian,
Prussian, and Russian ministers, and Mesdames de Bud-
berg and de Begens were present, as well as a number of
literary and musical stars, such as Thcophile Gautier, Pas-
deloup, Carvelho, Schroeder, Izo. The two latter artistes
sang the duo in the No::c di Ftgaro. The new violinist,
Wilhelm,, accompanied by the well-known organist M.
Saint-Saene, exeentoil tile adagio of Beethoven's sonata
and the m Matt of Bach.

The Pope has written an autograph letter to the
King of Prussia requesting big good offices in behalf of the
Roman catholic priests and bishops living under Russian
rule.

The Russian government has just authorised the
establishment of a society for the spread of the " orthodox"
religion among heathens, Muuulmana, and Buddhists in
their territory. The operations of the society will be
directed in the first instance to the conversion of the pagan
tribes in the Altai and Trans-Raikal country, and the
counteracting of Musrulman and Buddhist propaganda in
those parte. The Caucasus, being assigned to the labours
of a special society of the kind, is excluded from the
sphere of the present one.

A Vienna correspondent, writing of the masque-
rades at Vienna, observes that "the infinite variety of
costumes afforded by the olla podrida of races united under
the Austrian crown, render them wonderfully picturesque.
There is a daub of the Oriental about all the eastern pro-
vinces which gives richness and colour to the crowd ; the
old Polish and Hungarian national dresses are gorgeous
and tasteful, and the toilette of • Servian belle, or of a
woman belonging to the Saxon colonies of Transylvania, is
a marvel of gaudiness and oddity. In short a Vienna
masked ball is better worth seeing than any other, save
Gue in St. Petersburg."_ _ _

" It is not the Princess de Leuchtenberg," says
the Spet, " but the daughter of the Grand Duke Con-
stantine. that King George of Greece is going to marry."
The death is snnounded from Chalons-sur-Skaiine
of Colonel Andre Marechal, probably the oldest military
officer in Europe. He was born in 1764, entered the army
as a volunteer in 176:, served through all the revolutionary
wars and those of Napoleon, and was made a colonel in
1812. He had received six wounds.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTERS TELEGRAMS.)
FRANCE.
THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE.
PARIS, JAN. 31:

Yesterday the Emperor gave an audience to Mr.
Bennett, the owner of the American yacht
Henrietta.

The Regatta Society of La Rochelle have pre-
sented a gold medal to Mr. Bennett, in commemo-
ration of the ocean yacht race in which the
Henrietta was victorious.

OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA-

LIAN

MALTA, J.N. 30.

The Pera, fr nn S.mthampton on the 20th inst.,
arrived to-day at 3 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. for
Alexandria.

The Syria, from Marseilles January 28, arrived
at 8 p.m. to-day, and will leave at 2 a.m. to-
morrow for Alexandria.

(REUTER.S EXPRESS.)
ITALY, ROME, AND AUSTRIA.
PARIS, J. 30, Evcrrvc.

The Moniker (/,‘ Soir publishes the subjoined
remarks upon the mission of Signor Tonello co uto
Papal Court, and the treaty of commerce and
navigation reported to be negotiating between
Italy and Austria :
The success of signor Tonello's mission is producing
a favourable impression in Italy ; a proof of the progress
pacificatory ideas have made throughout the peninsula.
The concessions of the Court of Florence with regard to the
exequatur and the oath of the bishops have caused the
principal difficulties to disappear, and nothing remains to
be settled save a few secondary details. It is expected
that at the next consistory the Holy Father will be in
a position to designate the prelates placed at the head of
the vacant dioceses. Honoured by the Pope with a
friendly reception, King Victor k:mnumuers envoy has
equally had only to congratulate himself upon his rela-
tions with Cardinal Antonelli.

The religious difficulties being solved, it would be de-
sirable that in the domain of economic and material inte-
rests, for instance, in custom house, passport, and practical
business questions—the Pontificial government should lend
itself to combinations of a nature to facilitate the relations
of its subjects with Italy. Intelligence has been received
that it has just consented that travellers passing through
the Pontifical State to visit the north or south of the
peninsula shall no longer be obliged, unless making a stay
at Rome, to furnish themselves with a passport bearing
the rim of the Spanish legation, which is charged with
the consular interests of the Holy Sec in the Italian
kingdom.
The relations between Italy and Austria continue to be
satisfactory. No subject of rivalry any longer divides the
two countries, and they are preparing the elements of a nego-
ciation, which will no doubt be opened shortly for the
signature of a treaty of commerce and navigation destined
to turn to the profit of material interests the friendly
dispositions already shown by the diplomacy of the two
powers.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNEBI. EMIMG.

I am told, I hope, and I confidently believe, that
the Monittur will shortly publish a manifesto re-
storing the original letter of the Emperor to
M. Rouher to its pristine importance. I think
I have before said that many more ministers
must go to the wall. The time of their fall is at
hand unless I am greatly mistaken.
There is a rumour that M. de Chasaeloup
Laubat, the ex-Minister of Marine, intends to re-
sign his seat in the Senate and stand as an
opposition candidate for the Corps Legislatif
on the tint vacancy. It is not so much vexation at
being dismissed which prompts this step, as the re-
vocation of an appointment which ho had given to
a faithful Leporello, who had been in his service
long before his marriage with his charming
countess.

A capital mut is attributed to the most eminent
of the dismissed ministers when told that the de-
cree of January 19 was put forth sa lc eentroanc-
meld (de redifice), he said—La C'ouronne med.

A rumour reached my ears yesterday, without
making much impression upon them, that the Em-
peror, although feeling the necessity of talking
about the reorganisation of the army to mitigate
the vexation of France at the aggrandisement of
Prussia, does not mean war either next year
or later. 1 see it, however, stated into-day's
papers that the Chassepot rifles are not to be made
so fast as was at first said ; they will be manufac-
tured leisurely in the government arsenals, andtpri-1
vate orders are suspended.
A most important reform—in a French point of
view—is announced in this evening's France. The
tribune, the dreaded tribune, the tribune which
after the coup &Etat was denounced by writers of
the Cassagnac school as utterly incompatible with
order and imperial institutions, is to be re-esta-
blished. What is the tribune ? Simply a pulpit
at the top of some stairs in the arena of the chamber
which every member mounted when his turn came
to make a speech in order that he might be the
better heard. Two main objections were made by
the Napoleonists of 1851 to the tribune. First,
that it gave undue importance to a speaker ; and
secondly, that many friends of government who
were no orators would not have the nerve to mount
the tribune to make a set speech. However, we
are told now that this morning workmen have been
erecting a tribune in its old place under the PreaL
dent's seat. This is a more significant change than you
can readily understand in England. The very name
of " tribune " was tabooed, and now the Emperor
mos tambour ui tromprtte revives the old iiarlia-
mentary accessory. This fact is in my mind a
strong confirmation of the statement that the
Marquis de Lavalette and his brother reaction-
ists are going to be made scapegoats. The ac-
comm ()dation for the public hitherto so restricted
in the Corps Legislatif is to be augmented by a
second gallery.
The Moiiiteur puts an extinguisher upon all the
reiterated rumours that M. Ponsard's Galileo was
interdicted. As I told you long ago, the Emperor
personally has overruled the censorship. Whether
Rome likes it or not, the first French Theatre, the
Theatre Francais, will produce a play, the interest
of which will turn upon the persecution of Galileo
by the Pope of his day for having maintained that
our earth revolved round the sun. The connection
between this theatrical question and the great
Roman question, of which Italy awaits the solu-
tion, is obvious.
M. Cousin, who died rich, has left an annuity of
6,000 fr. to Madame Louise Colet, a good round
stun in ready money to her daughter, and the re-
version for her life of an annuity of 10,000 fr. be-
queathed to the testator's intimate friend, M. Bar-
thelemy St. Hilaire.
The rise at yesterday's Bourse was not main-
tained. Rente fell 20c. for cash and 12ic. for ac-
count, closing at 69fr. uc. in each case. Mobilier
fell lfr. 25c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. 50e. ; and
Italian, 12ic. Credit Fonder rose 12fr. 50c.

The Italia of Naples states that the small-pox is
raging in that city.