The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-04 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, FRIDAY

fast ; and the pre slavery public
.througho=
States exulted in the prospect*/
giving up their " fanaticiron"rabout the 840 Trade
in all its keno. This 47 motet 'anecdofe aleald
indicate tons the probability that mistakes of equal
consequence may be involved in the American so- I
counts of the transactions in the Gulf. We have
ourselves no bias in the case; for the policy of
blockading Cuba is none of ours—any mate than
that of importing Coolies into our colonies.
While protesting, with Lord lirtoucinaM,
against likening the engagement of Coolies to the
entrapping of negroes, oa the French plan, weave,
with him in disapprobation and dislike of the method
of supplying from abroad labour which may be had
on the spot. In the same way, while fully expect.
ing enplaned:ma which will put a new fees on the
proceedings of ear cruisers in the Calf, we think, as
we have always thought, that this marine-guard
policy in regard to the Slave Trade is clumsy, dim-
genus, and mischievous, as it is certainly expensive
in life and money.
We hare always said—what events are now only
M plainly showing—that while there is slavery
Ihrwe will be a slave market; and while then I. a
ekes market there will be • slave trade. Looking
book and forward from this position, there is some.
&bag abundantly mournful in what we see. Colonial
bed in plenty at 'the disposal of ourselves, Franey,
Spain, and Holland, for the production of sugar,
cotton, and everything we want ; labour in plenty mai
the spot, if duly encouraged and eoononsised ; capital
afloat at home, and invested in the colonies, enough
to generate the wealth of future centuries ; mecha-
nical improvement accumulating so fast as to super-
sede, if properly applied, the labour of whole tribes
of barbaric negroes and barely tolerated Coolies ; and
in Africa itself, as in India, whole realms of indus-
trial production only needing an opening to pour
their wealth of raw material into our manufacturing
districts. These are the conditions confided to the
European nations for use and enjoyment. How have
those nations used and enjoyed them ? The answer
lies in what we see. On the spot, the indigenous
supply of labour neglected, insulted, and driven
away : in the far Haat, a Coolie trade so infamous
in American hands that the United States Commis-
sioner has issued orders of the moat stringent kind
to check the abuses perpetrated by his countrymen :
in the West these sea-squabbler, and a perpetual
warfare of fraud and force, all round the coasts of
Cuba o in Africa, a cruel breaking up of a promising
industry and commerce, and the renewal of barbaric
wan and hellish kidnappings : at home, complaints of
proprietors and capitalists ; and in the colonies, un-
willingness to apply engineering resources and
mechanical improvements : in the cabinets of em-
pires, bickering and remonstrance and evasion : and
throughout the entire circle all going out of their
way, and doing some mischief, for want of using the
direct means to an honest end' Such is the spec-
tacle which may be, as HORACE WALPOLE says
life itself is, "a comedy to those who think,
o' and • tragedy to those who feel." We gain
ermifort, however, from Lord BROUGRAII, sad has
ether quarters, whence we learn that prsdastiss la
madly and regularly advancing in oar Isiah.
generally ; that labour is more and more ecassoised
by mechanical appliances ; and that the saffleissicy
of indigenous labour is becoming more apparent
every year. The returns of produce show that this
cheerful view is the true oar. If we had made the
beet use of our conditions from the day when slavery
was abolished, our success and prosperity might
have done more towards extinguishing every sort of
Slave Trade than all treaties and cruisers. Such a
course ia still our first duty.

THE Bill for facilitating the Sale and Transfer of
Land in Ireland, the consideration of which comes
before the House of Commons this evening, may
shortly be described as a measure for vesting in •
permanent Court those powers of sale over Unencum-
bleed Estates, which have for some years been so
beneficially exercised by a temporary Court with
regard to Encumbered Estates. Occasion has
already been taken to express a general approval
of the principles embodied in the Bill: our
present object is shortly to draw attention to • defect
of detail which is not without importance. The Bill
cootemplates the creation of a permanent " Landed
" Foam Court," which is authorised to invest in
stork the moneys paid into the bank under the pro-
TWOS/ of the now law. That the sums thus to be
arrested will be of very great amount, may readily
be iseerred from the fact that the emitting Court,
dealing only with Encumbered Estates, btu, in the
coarse of 61/14 years, imihorised the investment of
mars than 6400,0001. The investments represented
lby this vest sum have been exclusively carried out
by three stockbrokers—one nominated by etch of
the Commissioners. No express authority so to
appoint brokers was given by the Encumbered
I Estates Act, bat as that Act contained
'no direct prohibition of such patronage, nor
any clause inconsistent with its exercise,
Ithe power of appointment was put in practice by the
Commissioners, and, though felt to be a grievance,
has hitherto passed unchallenged by the Dublin
stockbrokers. The introduction of the new Bill,
which, if it panels into law, may reasonably be ex-
posited to ameemo very considerably the amount of
investments seder the authority of the Estates Court,
has set these gentlemen on the alert. From their
Petition it appears that they are 37 in number, all
standing, in retest to license, security, and
every other legal qualification, on a footing of perfect
equality. They object, and very reasonably ob.
jest, to the contingent* of the 'monopoly which
has beta hitherto maintained in hew of the
selected brokers. They enee that the public would
be better served tf so seek 'monopoly existed and
the parties were loft free to select their own broker.
Stock weld then be purchased without disclosing on
the Stook Exabeage that the purchase was under an
'Wee of the Comet, and it is obvious that in the open
market, without seek disclosure, more favourable
terms, as a general rule, could be obtained. The
prayer of their Petition therefore is, that a clause
be inserted in the Bill enabling the solicitor of the
parties to select any broker he pleases for the pur-
pose of making investments ender order of the
Court. The object thus sought is so reasonable, so
obviously founded on correct principles, and so
clearly conducive to public in t, that it ia to be
hoped the House of Commons will not refuse to
give it effect. The day has gone by for sustaining a
monopoly based on favouritism.

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vie.. is Ala weigh. toidtwthe wank a Twat elarauteh.t,
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OIBORNE, Jour 3.
Vir Itlljt•tratare out robe :dal, afternoon, se-
onayeaied by tb Prisms Helena „i

COimal ielfroys, commanding the depot battalion at
Parkhurst, boa the lower of dining with her Majenty.

ne Amebas of Kent took leave of the Queen Oily morn-
ing sed left Osborne for London, &Handed by Lady Fanny
Howard sad thr George Cooper. Tb. Duchess cradled over
le eandisseptoe in the royal yacht Fairy.
ne Duchess of Heat armed at bee residence, Clarence
Hoses, &. James's, at throe o'clock yesterday aftarnuou from
Osborne.

A thilethilth Ind an Weenie. yesterday with the Right
Han. J. W. Henley, the Preeethat of the Board of Trade, on
the subject of the Waterton& and Ughtertuen Act. The
Dlatfcn °maimed of Blr John Shelley, M.P., Sir Jaynes
e, M.P., Mr. Matthew Forster, Mr. Hell. Mr. &He, Mr.
Ashley, Mr. Hinton. Mr. Neale Horns. Mr. Thames Char.
throe, Mr. W. 8. Potter, Mr. Cory, Mr. Capper, sad Mr.
Wyatt.
Mr. Robertson, of Ladykirk, had as interview with the 1
Earl of slineebury, on Heiken affairs, on Wednesday.
A deputation, introduced by Mr Palau WP., and can-
mistiest of Mr. W. ficureeld Grey, Mr. Fellows, and Mr.
Turnbull, guardians of the Stockton Union, had an interview
with the Right Hon. T. Sotheron-Retcourt, at the office of
the Poor Law Board, yesterday, on the subject of a disallow-
ance made by the district auditor.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-offioe
her the Hearsay of Hoeg Kong, Ceylon, and Malta.
pent yesterday from the Colonial.offica, to
theDmitriernore vows sent
of Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Mauritius, and
Lehman.

IHTESTITURE OF THE ZINO 07 P0RT77614L
WITH THE ORDER OP THE 041TEl.

•

A supplement to the Logsdon askette, honed lest
eight, oontains a detailed aconst of the ceremonial proceed-
ings et Lisbon on the 27th Met., when kis Most Faithful
Msjeaty Pedro V., Kuog of Portugal end the Algom a. Doke
of Simony, wee inverted with the ensigns and hebit of the
meet noble Order of the Garter, by the Marquie of Beth, end
Sir Charles Young. Garter King at Anon who went lo
Lisbon one special mission for that purpose. The ceremony
took place at the royal peleoe of Belem; the book of the
statutes was borne on a velvet cushion by Ceptalo Mooreom,
R.N. ; the hat and star by Lieut.:met-General Sir Barry
Smith; the sword by his aidadacemp, Captain Swine,;
the collar by Lleutenant•Colonel Lord Burghenb ; the Gar-
ter, with Aend and George, by Mr. J. H. Planchf,
Croix Personate etAmsaLthe soversiga's tenemiseienty7.
W. Courthope, Scomosst Moll; the soarer* old boors of
credenoe by dir Charles Tang, the Garter King at Arms;
the meads and Waft by Mr. H. P. Andinon, Secretary
to the Wield limb& The Marquis of Bath, first plenipo-
tentiary, efter en hiker
Moe Majesty, who returned e
precious Ps*, pultioled lnsignia, aid buckled the
Garter reel She Ifiag's left kg, Gorier King at Arms
man the amenities in Latin. Then wen preen dialer
the temetban her Majesty the Quer ; We Majesty the
Eng Den Pealsand ; the Intents Deem hard Mart.; the
laterite Dm Leek end Dos John; the Quest's brother, the
Prince otßobssollern ; the Illeis de Lamle, President
of the Council and Meister of Pt ides A; the Minister
et Public Works, Commons, end r • the Wants
of Wer ; the Doke of &Minh; Grind of the
Court ; the Duke of Tercels, Grand Znerry ; the Vienna
de Carrera, Great Chamberlain to the Klee; the Pokier&
of Lisbon; the Mallets de Frouteba, Greet Chentherlath
to the Quall1; the Marquis of &sputa Subeann, Intro-
ducer of Ambessedars, and other Mews of the Reneshold;
the Couto:Wore of State; Beery Howard, Bet., British
Minister at the Court of Lisbon ; the British Ceneol; the
Foreign Misdates at the Court of Lisbon, end other ana-
l/Mahn peesooagas ; es also Rear-Admhal Gtr Hoary D.
Chsds, .C. 8., and the Captains in comisend of her Ma-
jetty's ships in the Tagus. A splendid hempen Tr eater-
verde 004

A letter frets Cologne of the 30th ult. to the Zeit,
asr :-" Yesterday a gnarl mpressertion took place at the
Coed Maim Is hearer of the Priam Cessart of England.
The prikammos emisted of the open of Bt. Clair, corn-
rad by the rein* Duke. Although the pub-
lb were set apprised until after the arrival of
the Prim, that then would be an evening enter-
tainment, the therm ma thronged with an to-
rome assembly, aid the inhabitants of Cobourg were
delighted to have an opportunity of giving a joyous welcome
to the beloved Prime, who had not visited his native tows for
me thee is yews. Ilia Royal Higher. took hie east
la the royal box with the Dike sad the Dearer,
lards( happy sad well. Today ammo= groups of all
emu 'rambled in the neighbonibeed of the palm to o•trh
• sight of the Prism This ruder et et• o'clock his Royal
Highness pee andlerre to • degralatka of ear magistrates.
Oi aormat of the great madame which is felt in the Prinoe
by our Deka and his people, It le hoped that hie presser
will have an advasktageoue lallaree In the settlement of t►e
pending conatitatioard queallems."

Hee Royal Higheeas the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by Lady Fanny Howard (lady in waiting) end Sir G.
Cooper (seam ta waiting), landed at the Southampton
dotes yesterday hos ON royal mkt Fairy, Captain Crispin,
isms Tilting bar Ilaiesty at Osborne. Her Royal Weiner
Mit by apeelal trek at 12 (Mock

The Hoke and Duchen of Hamilton entertained
at direr, ea %dandily enadag, at the family mansion in
Arliestmerreit, W laralleaoy the Rainfall Minister end
the Barmen Brwasow, the Counter of Dunmore and Lady
Beer Morey, Viewer awl Visomanem Campden, Via-
com* erl Vieconatese de Viso! , Lord de Tabisy, Lord and
Lady Rem Vans, Canal Louis Corti, Hoe. Richard Ed-
wards*, Mr. Charles Gore, &a

Lady Radetoek hasjoioed the Couoteee Dacia at
the Qum', Hotel, Upper Norwood.

The Baron and Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild
saved at 147, PlecadUly, last creatag, from Parta.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow has arrived at
room's Hotel, from Glasgow.

The Bishop of Limerick has arrived at Mattrigy's
HoteL

Mr. Buchanan, the English Minister, has arrived
at liedrid.

TIN National Gazette of Berlin states that four
dimes of Hamburg, members of the committee of the Btade
does, ham left foe London, whiiher they had been invited
by the parliamentary committee to give them explanations on
the satieet of these does.

It I. stated from Athens that King Otho is going
to likesengen, sad will have ea interview with the Emperor
Napoleon at Mania in the coarse of the SOMMIT.

The 300,000 fr. a year paid as jointare to the
Duelers ee Chime aow rem% to the state LT the decease
et that lameishei priaessa—Ostiresai.

The Awes; of Madrid stye :—" At Alicant
risen' cenumaterles aye wade on the feet of the Queen
act Irvin Asked the With whothser which was sent
has Glihreiter es • mark of respect to her Majesty, though
the Qum visited the Preach frigate. We tears that the
wean why her Wajoity did sot visit the 'chooser was that
the wee sot limited to do so by the Carol of lingised."
The youthful Queen of Portugal has profited by
the tint leisure day after the state corowouies to vWt the
fluidisation for the 'decodes el the orphans of those who
wore eirried of by the hits opilloado at Lisboa. Their
Majesties have lad two state diesme—cce in hooutu of the
royal =who, sad smother Eder the investiture of the
Gaut of the Gestar, whew do Mamie of Batt, Sir Cherie(
Young, lb Hwy fkaish; Mr. Melreed, the British Misisar,
sad other dadegnished yams' orsaseted with the Legation
sled 'peal marts, wore saes( the royal mese.
An aceident which sight bats been attended
with swine easirposteas ecentrred ha Parte on Tuesday
evening to Mao. Cot*, the deosesse. The hones of her
cordage how* esddsaly am of la the Aveass D•uphise,
she wee theme with peat shines est of Ur wakes and
takes up la a anteisse stele sod suseeyed Iwo • hews
opposite, shoe teeetved etteation. She seen
alter 1.00•011111 her eenata. and it wow feed Mat she ith; sot
seaffeed ay miss, injtuy.

... EVENING,

EXI'K.ESS FROM PrA.RII3.
fracas ova owe 001S1IPTUNDMIT.)
PARIS, TEINISDAY EVEIIi3UI.
It has been doubted whether the-Paris Conference,
which was adjourned till Saturday next, would even
meet so soon ; but I understand that letters of con-
vocation for that day bare been sent to the pleni-
potentiaries. Without npposMg the secrecy of the
deliberations to have been betrayed by any of the
ambassadors, it is permissible to believe in the
common report that differences of opinion among the
members of the Conference, and the necessity of
referring to their governments for fresh instructions,
led to the long adjournment. Upon what subject
can this difference have turned P It is not easy to
think that the question of the Danubian Principali-
ties can have given rise to mach discussion, because
all the elements for the decision of the question have
been in the possession of the government/interested
for months peat, and it was generally understool,
though sanguine Moldavian have expressed an
opinion to the contrary, that the conclusion
was foregone. On the other hand, it is to be
remembered that the Moniteur, when announcing the
opening of the Carference, said that its members
would assemble to debate the question of the
Principalities. Did that refer to the proceedings of
the opening day only or was it meant that no other
subject would be brought before them during the
entire session ? The latter supposition is scarcely
admissible when we find it asserted from Vienna
and Constantinople that Turkey refuses to submit
the solution of the Montenegro difficulty to the
Paris Conference. It L therefore probable that
the powers do claim or have claimed a jurisdiction
for the Conference in the *Heir of Montenegro, and
that the further instructions sent for by the pleni-
potentiaries have reference to this question.
M. de Pane continues to improve slightly. lam
informed that the Minister at War has sent a cir-
cular for the information of the officers of the army,
in which he expresses an opinion that the duel
with M. Ilyasse was perfectly fair. The opinion
of the Minister of War can hardly, however,
I should think be construed as au approbation of the
principle of several officers in succession calling out
a civilian. Another banquet was given yesterday to
Lieutenants Hyena and RogE, by the officers sta-
timed at St. Germain. I am, however, happy to be
able to state that twenty officers absented themselves
from the festival, and dined at a café by themselves.
They stated to their comrades that in their opinion
the demonstration was indecent, pending a judicial
inquiry. Their conduct was the more courageous
and praiseworthy, because the colonel in command
took champagne and dessert at the other mese.

_
The mystery of mysteries of diplomacy is what
can have been the true reason why Mr. Howard, the
British Ambassador to Florence, quitted his post
twenty-four hoars after his arrival there. I have
not heard a suggestion of any political cause for his
sudden retreat. All that is known in official
quarters here is that after having written an official
letter to ask for an audience of the Grand Duke to
present his credentials he sent a second letter,
stating that he withdrew his former one, that he
was not well, and that he must start for Paris im-
mediately.

M. de Leaseps arrived in Paris last night, on his
return from his uneuooesettil mission to Constanti-
nople about the Isthmus of Suez. He starts for
London to-morrow.

The Bourn was somewhat better to-day. The
Rente rose da for amount, closing at 69fr. 66c.
Mobilier fell Ifr. 60c. The Northern railway fell
6fr., but the other lines were from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr.
higher, and were in fair demand at the close.

The origin of the Woe report of an attempt upon
the Emperor's life at Fontainebleau is now known.
Lord Henry Seymour being in treaty for the pur-
chase of a carriage, had ordered his servants to test
the solidity of the springs. They loaded the ear-
-1 rugs with several pieces of east iron, and drove it
outside the Barrier de la Villette,which is on the road
to Fontainebleau, in order to look out for some
rough ground over which the carriage might get a
good jolting. On passing the barrier the coachman
said to the octroi officers, " Yon will please to ob-
serve that we have got some east-iron bars, and you
will not make as pay on them when we cane back."
The officers said it would be all right, and the car-
riage went 00. Bat presently, as the officers talked
amongst themselves at the station, it struck some of
them as auspicious that a carriage bearing hollow
metallic tubes should have been driving at a rapid
rate on the road to Fontainebleau. Visions of Orsini
bombs arose before the eyes of the most imaginative;
a force of gendarmes was sent for to the barrier,
and when the carriage came back the servants were
arrested and the cast-iron ballast seized for inspec-
tion. How soon the error was disoovered I do not
know, but in the meanwhile the rumour spread all
over Paris that a new plot had been discovered.
A duel was fought yesterday between M. Odin,
the son of the banker and a brother of Madame
Cavaignao, and a faabionable man about Paris, named
Sicot. The quarrel arose at the Cafe Foy, where
the parties were dining together with some friends.
In the course of • discussion upon a 'object of no
important*, M. °die, expressed a diSsentoe of
opinion with M. Shoot, in terms which the latter
thought offensive. A challenge ensued. The dug
was fought with swords. M. Biotic speedily received
a wound in the arm, but it was not severe enough to
prevent him from continuing the combat, and he
subsequently woanded his adversary in the body in
three places. M. Odier lo confined to his bed, but
his state is not thought to be dangerocui.

DREADFUL BAJaVAT ACCIDIES BILGIUM.---
Os itheda_y *sum • beef* navy 'wide* waned
apes the Iths loge thews *•
Kam" haven the Leavitt,
end Bob da Lek sthisk•hrem preatirers were killed sad
fifty weld. le apron thst this aria *ivied • beg.man-
bee el poseeetewe, sod wile pretasillag at bermes speed
taw he snots* with two etym. *boa with coke, sad •
third Mied with nisreiradies. The shook wee Nrdbls. The
brateodys was thrown on top at the ose, sad the two
which Mowed it wee o sad
te:e 111 greatly embed sad *elm. The erll
sd trey gaud
siderabie bat without es
therertirsire jerked from their ewes-
, awiseta
%orb% wee e. teary oast hibtf crowded with
peirsois rethiato los the of Mom
PINANG, ATEIL 18.-11ao ship Julia of BOOR
• la rat**, abort of Farb** sad ha%
ea - beim Bombay

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