The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-21 00:00:00

NEW BRUNSWICK._

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ST. JOHN'S, Jura 8.
The elections in New Brunswick, as far as is yet
known, have resulted in the return of 26 members
favourable to Confederation, and only six opposi-
tion members. Nine elections have still to be
decided.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. Present—Lord Chelmsford, the Lords Justices'
Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. V.
Williams, and Sir Lawrence Peel.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOClETY.—Upwarde of
2,000 people were present a
Their Royal Highnesses the
t the ounversazione of the
society on Tuesday evening.
Pricer of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh arrivedahortly
after 10 o'clock, and remained about an hour in the
conservatory. Mr. Weippert's excellent band was in
attendance.
NICHOL-STREET RAGGED SCHOOLS, BETHNAL-
OREM—The annual meeting of the friends and supporters
. of these schools was held last evening in the mionon-room,
Old Nichol-strcet, under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (LIMITED).
i —Traffic receipts for week ending June 17, 12,7781. 16a.fid.

The following telegram has been received
through Mr. Reuter 's office, dated Florence,
June 20: The King of Italy has addressed the
following manifesto to the Italian people :—" Seven
years have already paaeed since Austria attacked
my States, because I had supported the common
cause of the country in the councils of Europe. I
took up the sword to ideiend my throne, the
liberty of my people, the honour of the Italian
name, and to tight for the right of the nation.
Victory was in favour of goi,d right. The valour
of the army, the aid of the volunteers, the
concord and wisdom of the people, and the as-
sistance of a magnanimous ally gained the
almost complete independence and liberty of
Italy. Supreme reasons we were obliged to respect
prevented us from at that time accomplishing
that
just and glorious enterprise. One of the noblest
provinces of Italy, united by the desires of the
population to my crown, and which its heroic
resistance and continual protest against foreign
dominion rendered especially dear and sacred to
us, remained in the hands of Austria. Though
sorrowful at heart, I abstained from troubling
Europe, which desired pesFe. My government
occupied itself with improving the work of inte-
rior organisation, with opening sources of public
prosperity, and with fortifying the country by
land and by sea, awaiting a favourable opportunity
of accomplishing the independence of Venetia.
Although waiting was not without danger,
nevertheless we understood how to keep shut

NATIONAL ORPHAN'S HOME.— The anniversary
festival in connection with this charity, founded in 1849,
was held yesterday evening at the Star and Garter, Rich-
mond, the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. The home
is at Ham Common, and during the last 17 years it has
provided for 260 orphan girls. It is now purposed to raise
about 1,1001., with the view of accommodating 50
more. His Royal Highness, in proposing " The
Queen," said the toast reminded him of the present
crisis, and of the position of affairs on the continent.
Whilst hour by hour we were anxiously watching the
telegrams which might convey to us news of the onslaught
of armies, or the fall of kingdoms, the people of Eng-
land adhered to the ancient form of government to which
they had been from the earliest period accustomed.
(Cheers.) The Duke, in subsequently proposing " The
Army, Navy, and Volunteers," again referred to( this topic.
He was. he said, perfectly aware that it was one interest
and desire to keep ourselves quiet in the turmoil which
seemed to agitate the rest of the world. At the same
time be was persuaded it would not be either our
interest or wish to look small among the other nations ri
the world. Our institutions could only be maintained,
and our important interests protected by a feehne
security in the land, and this could be solely attained
by keeping up, even at considerable expense, establish.
menta equal to any emergency which might prime. At a
time like this there was of course a certain amount of risk
to us which could only be met by having our services in
an efficient state. His royal highness afterwards propoemt
success to the Orphan Home, tracing its reverses and
menses, and earnestly appealing to the benevo.
lent for funds to support it. During the proposal
of the toast about 94 girls in the dress of the charity
were paraded round the room, looking, but for the
emlsarraasing position hi which they were placed, very
clean, healthy, and cheerful. After the toast had been
drunk one of the girls recited to the head table a hymn,
the burden of'which was, " God careth for the poor." The
orphans were then marched out of the room, and the
other toasts were proposed. Subscriptions to the amount
of more than 1,000. were announced. Of this 750 f. had
been collected by Mr. George Moore. Sonic vocal musks
was given by Miss Ransford, Mr. Frank Ehuore, Mr.
Ransford, Miss A. Cox and Mr. M. Watson. The toast-
master was Mr. Harker, jun.
HUNTING PoACIIERS WITH A FEROCIOCS pas-
var.—At the Mildenhall petty sessions, on Friday, Richard
Gayton, 27, and Win. Mutum, 33, labourers, of Brandon,
were brought up under remand, charged with night poach.
ing on the mania of the Baron de Bliss, at Brandon, on
the morning of the 3rd lint. John Wharfe, keeper, stated
that about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd inst. he
was watching on his employers land, when he saw
three men—two of whom were the prisoners—engaged
is
ferreting a bask for lahhits. On the prisoners and the
other man observing bins they ran off. He and his two
maistants pursued, and called to them to stop, but they did
not. Wharfe then let loose an immense mastiff, standing
22in. high, partially muzzled, which succeeded in catching
Mutt= and pulled him down. Whilst Mutuni was eneared
in defending himself from the sttark of this dug. which
"%nark admitted was a f. • ww. 04 to!: on
the bead and stunned. Hew,. •b•ei-e. .1.111311:5W lassie,
another keeper, secured hoot third man got
I away. PIiftOIICIA in !it. s t%%., tastes
and s:x rabbits, a trap, and (layton,
when overtaken bad a bag round containing a
line ferret and a rabbit..3i 1 they had both been
bitten by the dog, and Mute ••.n a. p:aitied of being severely
struck by Wharfe when he was tcjing to keep the dog off
Wharfs acknowledged striking 31utuni severely, and caus-
ing him to lose much blood. The bench, in consideration
of the severe punishment they had received from the
keepers, and of their having been already two weeks at the
station, mitigated the penalty to two months' imprison-
ment, at the expiration of which time they must find
sureties for twelve mths' good behaviour, or in default
six months' furtheron imprieonment.—Bury and Norwich

Post.
MACKEREL. —An immense quantity of mackerel
was caught on the Cornish coast in the week ended on
Monday last. It is estimated that, after reserving an un-
usually large supply fur Cornwall and Devon, upwards of
300 tons were despatched to the Lpndon and other great
markets. Special fish trains were run by the Cornwall
Railway Company twice or thrice during the week. Plices
ranged from Us. to 225. per hundred. The St. Ives boats
had the lightest catches, and the Mount's Ray boats the
The fishermen generally are in excellent spirits,
lawnletr. most of them the season, now about concluded„
will turn out very profitably. The number of the men,
`women, sad children employed is much larger than in any
former year.

TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE.
Clear, Thick, and Invalid TURTLE BOUTS slwait MO.
ST. JAM'S-HALL, REGENT-STILERT, PICCADILLY.
WM. DONALD, ProPriem,

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
11.0011 for Gentlemen.—Remember, we watt tor you at
'=VANS'." after the Covent Garden Opera and the "mire.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 21.

Wait= it is possible for all true Liberals to
regard with considerable equanimity, if not with
a certain satisfaction, the triumph which the
Tories are already half ashamed or half afraid to
call their own, it would be difficult to over-
estimate the misfortune, if not the mischief, of a
transference of power to Tory statesmanship at the
present crisis in the history of Europe. To Tory
statesmanship this country owes its share of re-
sponsibility for that settlement of Europe at the
Congress of Vienna which parrot speakers and
writers are fond of celebrating as the inauguration
of a forty years' peace—a peace of forty years,
which in southern, eastern, and central Europe
was but another name for a dull and pervading
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tyranny, disturbed from time to time by abortive
insurrections, sustained by the incessant interven-
tions of enormous standing armies, and bursting
out after the lapse of three and thirty years in a
revolutionary conflagration that swept half the
monarchs of Europe from their thrones, and sub-
merged the continent in fire and blood. It was a
merry peace for despotisms and diplomatists ; but
for the populations under their charge it was the
peace of hoarded and sullen hate, of cruel suffer-
ing, of secret conspiracies, and suppressed but
smouldering discontents—the peace of the prison,
of exile, of the scaffold, for patriots ; of
arrested civilization for countries and races, which
had been distributed among the Powers like
herds of cattle. Half a century is but

the flash of a single moment in the
history of the world, and see what half a
century has made of that great work of the com-
bined wisdom of diplomacy—ever the very humble
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servant of force and wrong. In 1815, it is true,
all Europe—governments and populations alike—
desired above and before all things rest, after the
wasting struggles of the revolutionary war ; and
England having, first by the panic-stricken rage
and reactionary terrors of her aristocracy, and
afterwards in self-defence against a military despot
who could not tolerate a single exception to his
scheme of universal domination, thrown in her
lot with the representatives of the right

divine to govern wrong, and contributed more
than any other Power by force of arms to the
common victory, was, with some shadow of reluc-
tance perhaps, obliged to set her seal to the ex-
propriation of Italy by Austria, and the resto-
ration of the temporal power of the POPE,
and to acquiesce, at least by her pre-
sence at the preliminary deliberations, in the
final partition of unhappy Poland.
And yet the Plenipotentiary of England at that
memorable Congress, Tory as ho was, was scarcely
more distinguished for the undecorated simplicity
of his dress than for the comparative moderation
and liberality of his views, and his innocence of
political geography. But that was a Tory epoch
—an epoch of reaction, of lassitude, of repression.
In spite of the Holy Alliance, of standing armies,
of monarchical interventions, fifty years have not
left Europe helpless and submissive, like a patient
waiting to be cut in pieces on a hospital table.
Neither moral nor political civilization has stood
still, thanks to the irrepressible energies and silent
conquests of science, to the " increasing purpose" of
the ages and the " widening thoughts" of mankind.
It may well appear, then, a fatality of evil augury
that a Tory Ministry should be coming into power
in England at a time when the European settlement
in which a Tory Ministry concurred in 1815
is about to be cancelled and obliterated to its
last letter, at once by a war of dynastic and
popular ambition, and by a war of national
emancipation, and probably at no distant
date by a Congress of plenipotentiaries called
together to redistribute kingdoms, to re-arrange
boundaries, to strike a new balance of power,
and to lay the new foundations of a lasting peace.
We are taught by the analogies of a Reform Bill
what Tory statesmen mean by a new "distribution
"of power " at home ; in their vocabulary it sig-
nifies new guarantees for the vested interests of
property and privilege, new modes and methods of
excluding or neutralizing popular rights. Apply this
" distrust of the people tempered by fear," which
is the whole political creed of Toryism, to the settle-
ment of continental affairs, and the part which Mr.
DISRAELI at the Foreign-office, or Lord Maracas-
BURY at a Congress, will take in ordaining the
conditions of a new "forty years' peace" for
Europe, is easily foreseen. Mr. Disitazu's anti-
pathy, almost amounting to a personal rancour, to
the cause of Italian independence, is no matter
of suspicion ; it is again and again recorded in
the pages of " Hansard." Lord MALMES-
BURY'S predilection for Austrian rule in Italy is
the one clear point amidst the confused
scolding of his despatches of 1858-59. Italian
statesmen have not forgotten Lord DERBY'S
polite quotations, or Mr. DISRAELI'S mysterious
suggestions, or Lord MALMESBURY'S orders to the
Admiralty, and they reckon among the happiest
dispensations of Providence on their behalf the
advent of a Liberal government to power in Eng-
land before the Treaty of Zurich was signed. On
the other hand, they are disposed to attribute in
some degree, and not entirely without reason
perhaps, to the malign influence of a Tory policy
during that short and rapid war which was frus-
trated at Villafranca, the sudden disappointment of
their hopes. How will the desperate enthusiasm
of Italy, the reckless ambition of the Prussian
Government, the obstinate pride of Austria, the
high conservative displeasure of Russia, and last
not least, the impatience of France, be affected by
the presence of Toryism in the councils of Eng-
land at such a moment? We believe the people
of this country cleave to a policy of strict neu-
trality towards the European belligerents ; but a
neutrality not tempered with hostility to the
cause of the only nation that is fighting for a na-
tional cause. We believe the people of this 0011112-

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try desire a policy of peace. " a co . -
dence, then, can they contempla •
of a Tory Cabinet com.. the'cgrave
delicate discretion of Lord : ,gen
sympathies and straightforward dealings of Mr.
Disaszu, the large views of Lord HALMS/MI:TRY,
and the mild wisdom of Lord CRANBORNE--
' &keeling the foieign.ixdstitma of England through
a continental war, and at the Congress that will
fix the results of the war, is the absence of Par-
liament 4 For the present session of Parliament,
supposing •it to last out its natural term, will
probably terminate within a month after the
formation of the new Government, and wars in
these days are waged at too vast a cost of blood
and treasure to estend beyond the necessary span
of life accorded to am, Tory government by the
grace of Parliament and the will of the nation.

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