The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-26 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. W.

Tim brilliant man about teens of wriest Athos%
who appeared ;n the streets of that lively sky ass
fine amain with his favourite dog teilvisss, by way
of diverting the matlideue gossip of his fiellow-eitisene
from his r•thae /am habits of life, and giving time
eoweethisg novel to talk about at his expense, woe,
it mew, • prototype or the Goverment of Zu
Mod is

Mr. 141TY001 FITZGERALD. spooking la the alma-
city of an rx•Under Beeretary lee Foreign Affairs, le
of opinion that the commercial treaty with Franco
is intended to divert the palls attention from the
riatioas of the British °amount with the
Fuck. This is as iagenioes way of patting
• very sup:* matter, no doubt, bat is ft
even plausible' What imaginable &shooter
sea say Raging% Minister Sad in cencrimenti
if ooncealment were passible, of its Madam
with the French Governors' ? The fereiga /alloy
of • liberal Ministry is no mystery, excepting
shays to Mr. Recces's letter-writer sad Mr.
Duest.t. Noe-intervention is a peltry se else:
straightforward, and just, that by its very nature it
naoludee the thought of ortermy or &wpm. Thew
lo aethleg in it trinket or anossional, partial or
sestlitiesal. Them is so need of retiosnee or reser-
mien. of winking ter whispering, of glom, or sup-
posing, of abuse of the subjunctive, of non-bataral
isarepestatwee of plain writing sod articulate
opera. No we knows better than the able and
adroit ex-Ueda-Secretary for Fereigo Affairs how
Each • weed es "Dentrality," for heolease. may be
wished away in wordy and qualms ilsegatehas,
mail the very Blas-book looks black wad yellow.
Bat • brood and resolute assertion of the right
Si every astion to ohome its own constitution sad
Amin of government, free from any foreign inter-
ference, is • policy which, as the men of the Aft
French revolution said of their Republic, is like Mel
sue—blind are they who cannot see ft. It is a pulley
so manifestly and entirely national is ohmmeter,
so ooneenaot with the traditions of our own
autonomy, that the common sense sad common feeling
of all Reglad accopts and mites it, se it wets,
by instinct, sod all Earops acknowledges that
to Roglaud at last it belongs of right to pronouns
this new public law of nations. What, thou, we
would ask, Gan there be to mocoal in this
rotations with France of a Government whose inter-
national iscr:icy is so simple and explicit that
any English child who ha, read the rudiments of his
elosiatry's history knows it to be of Dative growth
the spreading blossom and ripened fruit of the old
hone tree? A member of a Tory 'wannest.
however, may be excused for suppealag that there
meet he something Weer the bathes le ear rotation
with foreign Power.. For in an Austrian policy the
faculty etalyuese le le aeostant and habitual exercise.
Am BnlMsh preseumeat attached to the traditions
Of CASTLIRSAGIE Lad M meanies, w bile profaning
" amorality " where the rights of sovereigns and
nations are in question, is naturally and necessarily '1
as disposed to be secretive and ambiguous ea aa
English government attached to the principles of
protection while demar.ding the logical resits
of unlimited free-trade. No man Is his erases
of any class or party in this country, is in-
,

sensible to the advantages •et

with ear nearest neigbboew on tin Osetineol

nisa is insensible to tie assossity of sirslazing
kr, he sir dollop with insipsnidlds Potintats•
Bat having laid down once for all the principle of
non-intervention es the pried* d English policy.
we are carious to learn in what Manor oar keens,
Secnnty, or independence of oaks OM be amid
or compromised by • good, and Madly, and awn
intimate naderstinding with a Power which ge
OW principles and deters to onr policy, if aolat
*doe, by the force of circumstances sad eased
The friendlies relations with the Fronds °evas-
ions, ad the most cordial agrossisat of
quota= idisting the domestic lights d
peahen is no way touch the more tainksl
asidandiaie dating the balance of power in
Zings. Aisarodly, if there be say Power in the
world that has a right to speak with the enlihnity
of a disinterested and faithful observer of IMO;
it is Gnat Britain. But the principle of nosialso•
coati= which the gunrooms of England upholds
in 1900 is to the principle which the govermonent
logimod ocostiesed I. 1916, as the eivillsoisa of
ts.day is to the siviliaatioo of forty-fee pine
seta Nowisterventioa is • paramount prineipis,

►ecause of its extreme simplicity and its sailing
application. It is sot the dream of universal pews
folfilled ; bat it is the first step towards the shanties
of war. Great States will always have great inte-
rests te gland. Englaad has her eoltaiss, her
sessmares, per India. Empire. There will always
be room fir the operation of a national policy sepa-
rate sad illeaust ; roma monk for honourable
rivalry ; is.. enough for the
.1 oat infloenos of an
snood people sod a matchless fleet. Bat a frank,
loyal, and hyenas statesmanship will have done
much to obliterate the traces of past discord w►en it
bee set its seal upon the declaration of the right of
every people to role itself, and drawn closer and
skew the mutual Um and interests of all.

It may be that the story of the Athenian " fest
" man" would be more appropriate over the water.
The public of the Boulevards is never unwilling
to be compared to the public of the days sad the
eity of PuicLzs. The Macedonian may have come,
bat the mobile and impreesiooable " democracy "
still babbles malice and mieeltief. The Parisian, we
seelia, is inclemently wanting a new bone to pink.
The arty or fifty thousand black militia, stirred
►y half a-dosen bilious bishops and as many die.
seeded party chiefs, were theieg into a dame of
mutiny, when down upon the missive to the Vatican'
same the letter to the Minister of State. Here was
a sew faggot in the Are. One half of Frame is
raptures of praise, and the other half in a palsy
of surprise ; the South illuminating, the North
petitioning. Deputations to coagratulate ; agate-
lions to growl, and threaten, and protest. Bordeaux
and Lyons, Havre and Marseilles, Roubaix, Rosen,
and Valeaelemaes, and the Creams; have something
besides the wrests and sufferings of his HOLINZU
to talk of, cad other than Papal dispeasations,
indulgences, and execienmankatiens, to occupy their
thoughts. Time, the great ianovator, is fairly gained.
Bat this is the petty, personal aspect of the question.
A more serious esmaderatioa it i< that in France the
majority of the manufacturers are bigoted rote.-
tionists, if not absolute prohibitionists ; that the ,

essneile-Genseel and the richer landowsere are
blinded by prejudice or ignorance; and that as
to the peasantry, they are pauper. in mind as in
body, and mere slaves of instinct. Among the
reading and intelligent popelation of the towns,
especially of the liberal professions, a considerable
camber of free-traders by conviction may be found ;
for the protectionist press has laboured under the dis-
advaatage sad discredit of being more than half
official. French commerce moreover is proverbially
and has few of the qualities of the &nave.
The difficulties therefore of even an absolute govern-
ment, when It presumes to touch a prohibitive tariff,
ammenliar in France, as the foliate of theirenmestere

sufficiently tostiEea And though tan years of a
regime of bow plawir may have somewhat enervated
the energies which make an Opposition formidable
is a government, it is pertain that the Emperor of
the FILIJICZ needs all hie strength to carry out the
measaree which his thoughtful intellect approves.
Three years since a reform of the French
11 tariff wee asuimmeed, and a load outcry arose against
it. A eon sines of inquiry was appointed. It sat
twice, and nothing more was heard of reform.
Bat the " idea" has not slept meanwhile, and this
time at least it re-appears under more encouraging
auspices. Certaisly of all 13 oglishmes Mr. GLAD-
nos' woad be Wet liable to the suspicion of any
headless. he the hem of government prevailing in
Freese i hue the Cmaucatuka of the ILICHZQUIR
i. tee SWIM. and peastieel a statesman to suedes
the sedating interests of civilisation to *ideal
antipathies. Nothing could be more earesseved
than kis summit's's in the if.... yesterday an this
point, and it in important is Amos that he spoke est
in hie own name oily, bat la the name of the malted
Ministry. " I say there cannot be too Glow ea ea-
" derstaadiag between Ragland and France. because
"it lies la the nature of this OWN, It lie in the Mr-
" eareetausse of the two emantriee, it hes ia the eir-
" cametanose of Europe, that it is hardly a possible
" seadageacy that Freese and Ragland should ever
"be misdated in policy except for objects that are
" Wadable of themselves and beneficial for mankind."
Thins words will travel far and be remembered long.
and if the (stare fail to ratify them, it will not be the
fault et beglaad.

IT is caleslated that as the Ist of January, 1880,
the Rifle Volumene unmated to 73.794, of whom
6,718 were artillery. It is to be sheseved that a
oessickralide 'majority of the compasies are ea-
wetted, madame of them scarcely kilned, sad the
salenlatios may therefore twit out somewhat inacca-
rate. Bat Mr. DUDLIT BAITER, to whom informa-
tion those balsam dee, ha. at all events derived his
coselssion from the only accessible sourose--the
Areig Live and the Newspapers. Again. it is glair
that the whets number can hardly be consi-
dered efiletive. At present no medical exa-
mination has tested the physical capacities of the
Volanteme, aid it would prubably turn out that is
ease of sleeks same of the most enthusiastic would
have to fall est of the realm. Bat after every
deduction it mast be admitted that eves if
80,000 young ton well drilled and well prac-
tised in the rifle could be collected toge-
ther, they would form a very formidable
addition to tbe regular army and the militia.
Lord Msivii.Ls may talk costairaptuoesly of a volun-
teer fora: but 'simians is against him. These
who have read history must remember that at the
Battle of Waterloo a very large properties of the
victorious troops were Gomm Militia, sad that
they ware wooed to some of the beet creeps in
Ramp. It k diMmilt to believe that the Rifle
Volunteers of Bei/land would be less talkies than
a German Militia, or, at all evade, that they
would be driven from the lines drawn to &had oar:
dockyards or anaaals.
There are, however, cartels faits connected with'
this Volunteer movement wrathy of sote. 1a the
first place, it ate= that out of the whole population
of England, Wake, and Scotland, amounting I.

and upper classes ; the working people stand aloof.
As a striking proof of this, Mr. DUDLEY BAXTER
takes the West Riding of Yorkshire. Its population,
1,381,798 inhabitants, is about one-twelfth that of
England; nevertheless, the places with reported
corps on January 1 were only 91, and their estimated
strength 2,180. Moreover, upon looking through the
list of places it appears that scarcely any of the small
towns and villages, containing more than half the
population, furnish any men. Again, of the
eitise—which contain one-third of the papule-
doe a Groat Britain—nearly the whole have
joined the movement; of the towns, which
empties rather lees than a third of the popu-
lation, nearly half the larger ones and • third of the
smaller ones have joined the movement; of the
country, which comprises rather more than a third
of the population, not one-twentieth part has yet
joined in the movement. The mass of this result
are by no means inexplicable. The expenses re-
(inked for establishing a rifle company preclude
places very poor or very small from joining.
In small pianos there are no men to fill cep a open-
pany : in poor case there is as money to purchase
a drill ground, and to pay drill sergeants. In
some esess, and ispesially in Scotland, subscriptions
have been raised for the purpose et equipping com-
panies of working men. But generally the rifle
volunteers are persons who can pay for their own
uniform and subscription. This hot raises the
important question, whether the Government shoal
not offer to pay a considerable portion of the
annual outlay. Mr. DUDLIT BAXTER seems to think
that if the Rifle movement is to be permanent the
Government must come forward liberally. Oal-
onlating the number at 100,000, he demands a
public grant of 77,0001. annually. It is certainly
true that this sum is a mere flea-bite, as Mr. MA-
IMS would say, when compared with the sum of
88,0001. spent upon 14,081 yeomanry cavalry. No
one can doubt that 100,000 rifle volunteers
would not only he much more useful, but
much more anaemia'', than the 14,000 country
gentlemen and their tenants ea horseback.
The calculation of Mr. DtrDLET BAXTER, G correct,
seoclusively shows that the sooner the money now
voted for the Yeomanry L withdrawn the better for
the Treasury. But surely there may still be serious
doubts whether the Government would do wisely in
voting any such large sum as 77,0001. for the Rifle
Volunteers, it is admitted that the movement is
almost entirely confined to the upper and middle—
the well-to-do claims. It is admitted that cheap as
the outfit is it might be cheaper if utility were the
only object; but then it is said that Volunteers who
give their time and mossy mast be allowed some
scope. Most of the corps have no doubt already
secured a butt and practising ground, and have the
means of paying for them. It can scarcely be said
that 11. is. or 10s. Bd. • year is too much to
demand from the class of persons who at present
constitute the Volunteers. It can scarcely be
neemsary to apply the vulgar stimulus of money-
prizes for good shooting to the members of the corps.
It should seem, therefore, that, with a moderate Go-
vernment allowance for ammunition, the Rifle Volun-
teers may well pay their own expenses. In short, con-
sidering the class of the population to which the
Rifle Volunteers almost exclusively belong, and the
alacrity with which the companies have been tilled
up, the MINISTER of WAR can hardly be expected to
check the voluntary liberality which is providing the
' country with a national defence by a large grant of
public money. Probably the expense to which the
country will be put by this Volunteer movement is
by far the most interesting question to the CLAW-
CILLOR of the EXCRIQUIR, and to Mr. Baletirr ; but
the public in general may be curious to know some-
thing of the character of the districts from which the
largest number of Volunteers have some.

ft appears, then, that Scotland has taken up the
movement mach more zealously than England. The
counties of Edinburgh and Berwick have 11 Vella-
teem to every 1,000 inhabitants. The average for
the whole of Scotland is 6 per 1,000; wherein no
English county reaches a higher proportion than
4 1.3 per I,ooo—tie general average being S pet
1,000. Again, the more important maritime
counties, both in Scotland and England, have a
higher proportion than the inland counties, Kent,
Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall, with
Gloucester, Somerset, and the Welsh county of Gla-
morgan on the Severn, Essex and Middlesex on the
Thames, Lancashire and Cheshire on the Mersey,
and Northumberland, Durham, and the North
Riding near the Tyne and Tete, have an
average of per 1,000, while the remaining
English counties average little more than 2 per 1,000.
I Again, it is remarked that, brain to the towns, the
highest proportions are reached at Cambridge and
Oxford, where the Volunteers are 18 and 14 per
1,000 inhabitants. This is Natural samigh,asesider-1
ing the fact that the Universities are just the plass
which ought to furnish the Wipe* amber of young
men. Indeed, it is said that since this Volnntsee
movement commenced the billiard-rooms have been
deserted, and the Oxford hacks are unsaddled.
Probably the fathers and guardians will find the re-
sults of the change when they come to lira at the
bills of their young friends in order to draw the
cheques to pay than. Edinburgh and Liverpool
have 11 and 10 per 1,000, whilst Glasgow and Man-
chester have 9 per 1,000. These facts conclusively
rove that the chance of a town joining in the Velma.
tear movement is in proportion to its size ; and that
the ecosittias mast favourable to the development of
the new permit are young men and money.

MA. COBDth, M.P., MID Tin TRUTT wreak
num:la.—The public will lean with phaswe that Mr.
Cohan, to whom we ere abbey indebted for this ispertaat
.rep towards abre free wale with inane, has sated
thrones:or as her Majesty's liselpeleatary, arid is that
capacity bee Woad the treaty. At the sews dew we it.
confident tbat Lord Cowley has Worded Ids meat haloes wed
omeiderete oweperedos, and that the esweeemestal remelt easy
be wombed, Is so anaquel Math le the u end ere-
dielky of the two diplawathh. As as adoiralf of Mr.
Cobden we way be shared I. wrest in a stinted
phraes the graufloadoa we ad et this fresh ear.
vioe which he has readiest' Is his Irmatry. • •
home of oar coatemporeriee haws betrayal se beez•
pliable desire is 4117 the voles of the teeny will*
Mr. Cobden bee jest We bed of thew Is be very
praises "ad Milaillai their arMakes, last theiresty, whoa
published, should have dam is the lane. We base noses
to believe that It will be foul w Notify the meet
waver 'apostatise' of thew who are attune, at paned
is well ea commordel ersaade, to see eat Owls with Poem
eztsuded. Athletics has been toe eseladvdyniossial *that
'arta the Emperor's lOW which Mann the radbasilwo of
ditties oh raw a/aerials, le which, of Mae, we bees wily
• esoosdery 'street, while the Asir bet repast
walesai pointing te the sabeilbarisa el yasSrallee della Ow
wake prohibition has bow rewind ep
sewessoß
Ts* sakes we ere greatly wiltdiva, annininn sonwpar
had by hr the meet lachwit of dr issilimbiell
reams. It is °balms s
wale et the duties to be levisdivis the of ps=::
they nay be sash sa wail still dr mew-
isterer le empet• with aware., Is !me trwirste.
or they nay be or law se Is sled Y tb sett awes
te sites Iredite. we beim it trill pesos sant or
pregasstliels waiver Move ems two Mmes. If soy
person at soperessorelly lupin' were is worilla SI per
per est as Maly te M tit esealemet reap al ilealem ea ell
Lae se IBM* ersoltslores, we hove rove Is sewslode
oat ho wadi lot be my Ihr olds if whom art.—ltswelselor
areesiew.

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CIiTSTAL PALOS. 0141 Swum Davi--
WZDNEGDAT. JAN. 26.—Alasealuaa se pay mem, 816, Mb;
by ram limbs* 374.—Teta1 vlsibs, 1,190.

tirApit
trbe Own.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 26.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
yawardar.
The Queen and Prinoe Osumi waked la the Home•park
thin morning, and visited the Duchene of Kent at Promote.
Her Royal Weiner paid a Ault to the Queen in the ante,
noon at the Castle.

Princess Alice sad Prisms Haim rods in the Riding-
house.

Lord Charles Fits Roy hes sneoseded Colonel F. H. &Jr
thou' es equerry la Toning le the Qum

A deputation on lb, oddest d Me Pereira dads m lissa
wee had an IMerylaw with de Blight arm T. Maar Gibs
son sad the bight Has. W. Omer, yeMerdey at the aloe
of she Board if Toads. The isinamila VIII b 7 Mr.
Mawr, M.P. it Drogheda, and modeled of Mr. John
Hind, Vise-Prosident, Cris/Mar of 01w.., HAM ; Mr.
M'Cisre, Bolin; Mr. Preston. Belfast; Mr. Fleming,
President M Um Citsailar d Cemimerse, Dundee; Mr.
William Small, Deader; Mr. Mossball, Lade, sad Mr.
Swmn, Leads.
Mr. B. 3. Perry had an interview with Lord Jabs RllllllO
is Monday.
• trots the DormContral BadmenCommay,
of Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P., chairmen ; Sir Z. B.
Baker, deputy-chairmen; Messrs. H Her Soy-
Emir, M.P.. 'George Bard, wad 3. 0. Mead, direstsve;
Mr. Gerard Start, M.P. • The Hon. W. H. B. Portman,
M.P. ; Mr. Jobs Meld, lir. Toogood,
agent; Mr. C. H. Gregory, the milder; Mr. litet7
essestary ; aid Mr. Domidme, resident saglasse, had an in-
terview with the Bight Has. T. Milner Gibson sada* Might
Hea. W. Camper, yeedenley, et the Mike at the Baud ot
Tiede.

- Devotehos won curt
from do Cokatol-.m yostonisy to
the Gomm. ol Omitls.

His Highness the Maharajah Dnalmp Singh has
lit Clatidp's Hotel for Windsor Cast* 1111 a viols to bar
1•
The Duke of Rutland returned to Belveir Castle
yoaterday, from Loolioa.

- Ldp Howard de Wales has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel. from Brunel'.

Lord Lyndhurst has quite recovered from the
slight indisposition ha was .booties soda when he Istaniad
lo tows freak 84. Iwaasrd'rm•Ma.

The mortal remake of Lady Cowley were brought
to town early on Tuesday morning, from Hatfield House,
ma hue been placed la the holly vault In South Audis,-
Wen Chapel, where the Mt* Menai' Wellesley and the
Earl of Morangton me interred. The Minds of Salsbury,
the Duke of Wellington, and other Mains of the dimmest
lady encoded the lowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Brumley Sheridan have been enter-
taining a large party during the putt week at Frampton
Court, among whom were the Duchess of &wet, Lady
Dam* Lord Beyramar, Has. Mn. Horton, the Berl of
Giford, Lard end Lady Peittwo, Hon. Frederick CfSVIO,
Lady Frauds Gordo. Ned Mae Gordon, Lord Edward et.
Maur, Sir Ivor OW, Lord cad Lady Digby and the Hon.
Miss Rigby, Rev. J. Ramon, Re.

Yozeir;l4 the wife of Sir. Fitzroy Kelly, 11.11.,
mitt** to • lawittior et Dtwor-.trod.

- The Times &Miss positively that Mr. T. Stamford
Rados has bum gramma stipsadiery magistrate at Liver-
pad. is the room of Mr. Msaadold.

The Cork Reporter pointedly :remark. that "in
the liet of Irish sheriffs for the primmest year there are inure
Roma estholies than in my jeer 'Wes the IllEarnalpatios."
Takeo is ocetossion with the Isms isoosedia et gimllsessa of
the sues permeate to the magisterial heath, this dram-
stenos, Ws the Isparta-, is proof at the itherelity of the
present Irish seversaisatt. The Room catisolis potholes
appointed this peer es sheriffs are twelve is amber.

The Rey. C. H. Spurgeon delivered his first ser-
mon In Dellis on Tmeday.
On Tuesday night Dr. Lyon Playfair delivered his
third leotard on the retakes of Chemists/ to the Isdoiariel
Arts, to a vegerdwdedsadttoq, fa Qmen-eirest Hail, lid's-
burgh. The yeasir Fronk mimes were presses, sad were
accommodated with seats is the *them.

Joan Guest, Em., of Dudley, has made the =ini-
tiated donation of I,OOW. to the fends of the Chased Hos-
pital at Birmingham

The Queen's speech on opening parliament was
transmitted to Paris by telegraph in 42 abate& The
deownent was divided Who three parte, and shah pert wee
onsuitted to a ea/sue wire, the fret words king nut
at at MI Wastes past 1, end the lest a quarter put
The Universal Agricultural Fahibition of Peril
lam place is the week hetween the 17th end gird of Jane
amt. It will loge& adds, pigs, poultry, lohplesente,
with handsaw money prises, and gold, silver, and brans
medals fur the eneemstsl eceupeiluos.

IL de Lowers, who has just returned to Paris,
ties Coustausirogis, Is shoat to pablloh a pazaphist in
sensor to the *edam reload in England against his
Wham al Sew .as...

The Nihon Garotte weeks of aueserous armee
mole by seder of the Modes groversemit at Vaudois rad
adealso the amber at shoo 400.

Baron Newell has, is an (dada PateraPb Pub-
lished ha the Masaere Meter of the UM, expressed hie
thaeks to the tailless of Flamm for their 9081fmk/caw is-
noastratioas of afhation for hie perm daring the Lb
attimagas at diatarbeace.

TIES LAT, CAPTAIN HARRISON.

The metal reemaine of the lats Captain Harrison
will leave Ibiellempka by the 3 p.m. Wale this 44, as their
Pay to Liverpool, hr istenneat. The following °Mobil
stelae wee herd yesterdsy, et Sembanaptos, in the ships et
s lsadblU, ammessied by a moursiag borer; irk:
" Borough at Ileathamptas —Caste et Caplets Harriers,
et the Grist Beautra. At ea amiably of the maid at the
liswesith offloatbseeptem, held this day at the Asia-hoses,
la Brathamptes, Prederlak Porkies, LI., mayor, la the
chair. it wee remelved masionously : bat, is order le
lest* the reepest et the Ishabiteate at tows to the
memmy et Me late geoid Cepa& Harries% this cousiel
norm--d thee the lesiumess dtb. tem, will, as Thirsday,
the WM Wiest, tier their smehlegemeate daring the Mee
Captein Banims's resales are bow ors weged le the ad-
way ; that the alma* tally la Ilse taws do rig a ossified
peel at 8 o'clock Is she miming. sad again at $ clank la the
mealy: of the semi dayl; that lthe belle do 101 l a muffled
knell from half-paet 1 to 3 o'clock as the Is.. day, duriag
time the bed of Captain Herders will be massysd
from Ida haell to the itallwailaritee ; that
ablaut* gem les Ind from the Platform hem 2 till
3 o'clock of the said cley.'—By order, Citialas DIAOOW,
Teen-obwk.—Aadiehause, likarhaseptes, Jaa. 24:"

MEATH OF LADY CHAILLOTTE PROBT.—Wei Feint
to learn that Lady Charlene Proby died on Monday/loot,
ander midden drourastenoss. The lamented lady
slid on y afternoon to pay • visit to bee
e
the Dowers Lady Woolork. in Bloteley-equare, ranria
Just tarn a &dr tithe tirseing•romn, when her ladyship
fell back and soon afterwards expired. The deemed led,
wee eldest daughter of Joh. Joshua, first Earl of Croydon,
by his second m with third dattgbter
the late Right How. Grenville. and woe born in 1788.
The Hari of Corydon, Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, the
Bari Fortemooe, and other families of rank sr* plied in
moa miag by the sad oocurreses.
ROYAL COLUMBAIIIAN CLUB.-11110 third grand
cannel row tel pigmies braising to the meenbere of this
abeam held as Tomalley at earrtaa's Hotel, Pleetrreet, in
itheessZrade at die bare of the premier. This dub was
as the beginning of the rear 1867, sad the an-
ererenor it bas resolved treat mod of the redeems who
to de hewed la the beauty of the pleases aid shape of
thus admeally pretty birds grainier well lee ita future
welfare. The members meet err' fourth Toads, dation
the mouths of Bephosiber to: February isolative, deo on the
fourth Tam* la Jane Jely, tor the purpose of showing
their birds, and at disseelleg the mo
ult mof reciromm
erldioll al the Mem* plebe pory rtepig shows
throughout the esnetry. Amapa the birds exhibited yes-
terday were one entredid Was festal* white ditto *Aire,
risk and Mil% beat Herded' Weir, Esq. ; carriers ban
W. Pry, Ls, el)i ght= ; aim a very motel caddis of
herbs, bernees% sad rare, tram P. H. Jose*, Esq. ; dies
abort-fauns dewed. sad beanie, fn m Messrs. Pardee',
Thema, sad Aral.. H. Morris, Eel., exhibited mom
good toys, Inoludleg tartilis, owl., magpies, &a. A. °airs,
Esq., mot soots good swallows. jecobines. &I.; H. Tows*,
Pr., magpies, aod a capital pair of Bruaswicke, rte. 0. 0,
Mira, of Birmbigham, mot about 60 Mrds. Whaling good
leatalls, carrier*, Merles, owls, turban., Aka Altogether,
the show was most mtisfactory, sad early 600 pram
Tilted this capital oakcilon.
ASSIGNATION OF THE CHIEF SUPSZINTENDIUIT OF
Tn. Brant Pouom—Mr. R. A. &rheas, who has
held lee above agpototamot to nearly 20 years, east is his
resignation to the retch mormilttas tee Tueday. 11l boatel
la the cars. Our correepoodest adds :" If the tows dreaoU
does Its daty, It will &mud local prejudice*, and by pit&
advertkeerest air the beet are in whatever quarter he may
be four."

biz AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH
Cosirsztir.—M a meeting of the hoe's' of dirostors of this
aompasy, held yeetied4,lt wee reeolired to.reesebstisd to
the Fisopristare, et the goneral wreaks W birblld'et the Un-
do' Teossu es the 7tb day of Febrile' y lust, to wakes •
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,ATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SARDINIA.

The indipoidents of Turin, which passes for being
Count Cayour's journal, says, in ita number of the
23rd, that nothing now opposes the Prince of Carig-
nan's assuming the Regency. It Liao urges King
Victor Emmanuel to make a tour through Tuscany
and the Emilian Provinces.

Count Mamiani, Minister of Public Instruction at
Turin, has finned • circular to the members of the
Supreme Council of Public Instruction, announcing
that he will faro= liberty of instruction daring
his administration.

TUSCANY.
li, LORENCII, WIDNESDLT.
The Monitors Toseano publishes an official expla-
nation of the reasons for the reserve manifested in
the decree proclaiming the Sardinian statutes in
Tuscany.
The Tuscan government only intended to reserve
the organic laws of Tuscany on freedom of commerce
and industry, and some other special laws.
The national parliament will decide whether those
laws are to cease in Tummy, or whether, Oa the
contrary, they are to be extended for the common
benefit.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mon ors °lnt ooasauPoirDsxri
PARIS, WIDNISDAT EVINIXO.

The Parse says the commercial treaty was signed
by M. Bawds., as the representative of France,
and by Lord Cowley, as the representative of Eng-
land. It hu reason to know that the following are
the principal clauses :—The duty on wines in Eng-
land will be reduced from 160 per cent. to 28 per
amt.; silks will be admitted day free ; the duty on
iron in France will be 7fr. the 100 kilogrammes;
manufactured woollens and cottons will be protected
by a maximum duty of 30 per sent —the reduction
from that figure to be fixed after inquiry. The raw
materials mentioned in the Emperor's letter will be
admitted into Freon free of duty on July 1, 1861,
and prohibitions will be removed on October 1 fol-
lowing. The treaty will be executory as far as
England is concerned on the day of its promulga-
tion, which will take place after the exchange of
ratifications, early in February.
According to the Paris some protectionist menu.
!tourers are hterally doing what the satirist About
represented them capable of—attempting to stir up
the operatives in favour of protection. "In certain
places they tell the workmen that the effect of the
reforms projected will be the suppression of works,
and more particularly in the woollen and cotton
factories."
The Petrie observes that- the cotton and woollen
trades are those which will most immediately benefit
by the new treaty of commerce, because they will at
aloe enjoy the advantages of a reduction of the
datiee on raw materials, and will be protected by
prohibitions against foreign competition in various
manufactured goods until 1861.

It would appear from the above twa paragraphs
of the Petrie, taken together, that there is to be
an immediate reduction of the duties on raw
materials, bet that the duties on them will not be
entirely removed till July, 1881, which people had
supposed to be the utmost period fixed for the
removal of prohibitions ; that inc-abos will, it is now
said, remain for three months longer—namely, till
October, 1861.
The Chamber of Commerce of Calais has sent an
address of thanks to the Emperor for the suppres-
sion of prohibitions as fax as regards the lace trade,
which occupies 8,000 heads in Calais and Bt.
Pierre. The Calais people say they have now no
fear of English sompetition, and refer to the
specimens they sent to the Universal Exhibition in
London aa a proof of the excellence of their loos.
At a ministerial council held to-day, at which
the Emperor presided, M. Thouvenel took his seat
for the first time.

M. Fould left Paris this morning, to preside at the
eouneil-general of the Hashes Pyrenees. He will
return to Paris on Saturday. M. Delangle performs
the duties of minister of state ad interim.

At the Bourse the general opinion was that there
was nothing in the Queen's speech to justify the
sales made yesterday upon the supposed coat/eta of
it. M. Marie's financial report, the appearance of
which has, without any explained reason, been de-
layed for at least six weeks, was considered likely to
give a stimulus to the funds. The minister shows
that the floating debt is reduced to 760 millions,
and that the Treasury bonds, which in 1868 had
reached the figure of 346 million., are now scarcely
136 millions. A very favourable symptom is the
rapid absorption of the Bentes by the savings of the
country. The purchases of Ratites in 1869, made
by the receivers-gesend, amounted to 187 millions
against 40 millions of sales, showing an excess of
147 millions, which is doable that of last year. It
wee, however, remarked with surprise that the
report says not • word about the 100 millions paid
by the Bank of Franco in exchange for 4 millions of
Rents Three per Cents. By the treaty made with
the Bank in 1857, it was expressly stipulated that
these 100 millions should be applied in reduction of
old deficits. Notwithstanding the various reasons
which it might have been thought would have pro-
duced a better feeling, the Rents opened with
warmly • rise of 10e.; and in • very few minutes
the pressure of sales brought the quotations down
to a point 20c. below the opening price. This de-
pression was partly attributed to a report from
Naples that the Filanghieri ministry had been re-
placed by an absolutist cabinet. The closing quo-
tations were 68fr. 86e. for cash, and 68fr. 66e. for
account, being a rise of 6e. ►nd 10c. Mobilier fell
21r. 60c. Railways were much firmer than the
Bente. Orl, ens rose 7fr. 60c. ; Northern, Eastern,
and Western, 2fr. 60c. each ; Lyons, 6fr. ; and
Southern, lfr. 26e.
M. About has been fighting a duel. At the end
of his last feuilleton in the Opinion Nationale he
spoke vaguely of having been grossly insulted in a
minor journal, and said that a friend,who met him on
his arrival in Paris, took it for granted that he had
come from the country to fight. M. About proceeded,
in terms which I decline to repeat, to describe his,
assailant as person whom no gentleman could think
of meeting ; if assaulted be should hand him over
to the Amiss Court, but he would not do the hang-
man's work with his own hands. Two or three days
mince, as M. About was sitting in the Neapolitan
Calk, on the Boulevard, a M. Vaudic, a writer in the
Orpheon, a musical journal, walked in and, calling
him aloud by his name, taxed him with cowardice.
and spat in his fees. A meeting was the consequence.
The parties fought with swords, and I hear that both
of them received slight seratehes.

Tam CommaaciAL POUCT or FLurcll.--Tbe
Livoupool Clamber of Ommeree, at their nariting yessur.
dipeened • reashilies. remeribig their aseldhotiela at the
ez
reandy eserrieted by Wei Saperor M the Fresh
n hu latter to K. Fonbl, reibliminglod hapertaa• ambits
in the connumoiel poi* N inirrae.
BouNTLEs To bwax.—An order of her Majesty
le roamed appear la Temmiley's airmeito eatemdiegase rhea
limited tor permeate baste at ieer pours to *ha am-
and two pomade to wiliest, ewes freen the let of
February lodise of Nardi MIL

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frivadslaip 30,816,361, ally 3.6 is every 400 ialiabitants take
etinent t no part is the movement. Thus It a that mime
&zing vie- 10,000,000 of the population remain jeaf to the call.
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