The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-03 00:00:00

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Err hi ft•*at he dare not ask Part*.
t *lien Bill/of the drdinary kind *, .*
erect ellence is fierwhelfiting that a Hill.
AV! oftpoen t oripit has apt, up by Air
Imperial Ally to on
the fundamental laws
of the realm to suit his convenience. The san-
guinary attempt of ORSINI and his companions was
not, therefore, the real origin of the late endeavour
to effect this object—it was but a plausible escuse,
very maladroitly need. But this is clear, that if a
proper tone had long ago been taken in public—aye,
or even in private—by Lord CLARENDON, the Sove-
reign and Ministers of France would never have
been beguiled into the mistakes they have committed
during the last few weeks.

The Herold says that " the cue of the British
'measure at Naples is now under the swims consideration
of the government, and will receive that earnest and imme-
diate titiollitiOlt which it desernsa. Lord Derby and his col-
league ere, in fact, resolved to stand by the country, and
the people mast stand by them and aid and encourage them
with their support."
A letter from Paris says :—" Though Orsini is said
to have &played much calmness since hie condemnation
1 yet, to pretreat any attempt by his own hand, it was though:
prudent to us the ausaacts•-a-force, or strait-waistcoat.
The others, with the exception of Gomm, who is lot con-
demned to death, are similarly tinned. The chaplain of the
prima boa been with there, but it is not said that his exhor-
tations have had much abbot. They attnuled divine service
yerterdty in the chapel of the prison. The minute of the
trial were to be submitted this day to the Parquet of the
Ceart of Cessation by the Attorney-General. They will be

diftributed, and the Court will appoint one of the cOnseillere
to draw tap t►e report, ea which the coadrmatioa or Meal&
dation of the madam ci the Lower Court will be founded.
I may add that there is little or no chance that the sentence
will be disturbed, and It is probable that the whole adeir
will be decided is the coarse of the week."

!korai LAW APPOINTMENTIL—In addition to
the aanontmecoesiteelready made, we believe that Kr. E. 8.

Oardoa, Mr. Archibald Hiouo, .nd Mr. A. T: fteyb will
be appointed Advocate► Depute. The two fairgoer brid the
aims °Mee to 186 d, 16600 which time their thew colleapuea
Mr. D. Mare sad Mr. C. Bulbs, have bourse almriSs. The
fourth soudeation Sill remains to A. rarla.--.l4daliwret
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LORD CAMPBELL'S LIBEL AMENDMENT SILL—
In the Hones of Lords, on Friday bud, when Lord Campbell
postponed the esoond reading of the lee of Libel Amend-
ment BA Lead_ Lyndhurst suggested that " the noble and
bused lord Amid take advantage of the postponement to
tasks the bill more extensive In its operation." The
bill proposed to extend our immunity to reports of proceed-
hip in parliament, and to give um also partial protection
in the case of certain other meetings, carefully defined. " We
cannot but hope," mays the riffle, "that Lord Campbell
may see his way to some safe and Tittles,
provision
tot the prom in such duties as society expects it to
pee i
for bringing within the limits of his act all
dame principal kinds of public meetings at which the pre-
emie of reporter, is a recognised and indispensable feature.
If aqy meeting is such that it ought not to be held or not
by the representatives of the press, we claim no pri-
vileim far the mune of its proceedings; but where we are
plainly bound by the calls of our prollemlon and the interests
of misty to the publication of mean transactions and
where we perform that duty well end truly, we do think
that we ought Ike be exempted from further aced at."
THE HIP OP LieeoLn'e-fitte.—The
following gentlemen have anneunred themselves as cruedl-
dated for the preschership of Lineoftes-lan, resat
Wm,
resignation of the Rev. J. 8. M. Aredereon:—Rm. wm.
Thomson, D.D., provost of Queen's Collage, Oxftwd, late
Beeepos letterer; Rev. Edward Meyriok Goulbarn,
=of St. Piltire4 minister of Quebec C ud
master of Rugby; Rev. George Trevhcrik, A.,
cams of York, and preacher at St. Philip's Church, Repot-
street ; Van, W. B. Otter, M.A., archdeacon of Lewes, and
vicar of Cowfold, Sussex; Rev. Radius Bayley, WA.,
rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury • and Rev. W. Perelval
Bally, M. A„ chaoaM to the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court.
ENGLISH SUBJECTS DYING IN FRANCE.—An un-
married lish named Brown, who, after long
residing at our- sr, had taken up her residence
at Paris, died in e Hospitadde la Charitd, in June, 1854.
She was at first supposed to be In distress, but it turned out
that she had left securities worth more than 300,000 fr. The
government took ponersion of the property, but her brother
and two sisters—Mr. George Brown, Mrs. Worth, and Mrs.
Munro—brought in July, 1836, en action before the Civil
Tribunal to get It back, and as they produced letters of
administration from the Prerogative engirt of Canterbury,
the tribunal granted the application. On Saturday the Pre-
fect of the Seine, acting as representative of the government,
appealed to the Imperial Court to have the decision set
aside, on the ground that the letters of admlnietration were
not sufficient to prove that Mr. Brown, Mrs. Worth, and
Mrs. Munro, were really the heirs of the demised, and that
they ought formally to have established the fact in the
manner required by English jurisprvidenoe ; but the court
confirmed the former judgment.
TIIE IRON AND COAL TRADES.—A quiet tone
still pervades the iron market, and orders are restricted
chiefly to the home demand. The orders from America and
the Continent are few at present, but a better state of things
is looked for as the season advance.. The first house* have
at prevent a sufficient number of orders to keep their
works in gear, but second-rate establishments experience
some difficulty in finding their workmen full amp oyment.
Quarter der s prices are fairly maintained, and there
does not appear to be much underselling. Good hot
blest tune pigs are firm at our last quotations, but infe-
rior makes are being sold at lower prime. There have been
during the last six months about fifty human put out of
blast, but notwithstanding pig iron Is accumulating. Dur-
ing the last week large contracts have been given out for
rails for Roadie, but it is most likely that the principal por-
tion of them will be got up in Wales, as there are greater
facilities in that district to make them than in South Staf-
fordshire. The coal trade is brisk, owing to the severity of
the weather, and the colliers are fully employed. The coal-
masters east of Dudley have determined to give their men
notice for a reduction of wages, which will put them on the
lams footing as those west of Dudley. Whether or not
they will acquiesce with the wishes of the masters so easily,
and return to their work so peaceably as the latter did,
remains to be seen. Ironstone, the yield of the district, is
in good demand, and the price fairly maintained.— Waiver-
. lianoplon Chronicle of the day.
THE THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY. —Yesterday
afternoon a meeting of the proprietors of the Thames Teasel
was held at Radley's Hotel, to rewire the annual report ead-
' bag the 31st Dec.; Mr. F.L.Wollaston (one of the directors)
presided, in the absence of Mr. B. Hawes, the chairman.
Mr. W. W. Meson, the secretary, read the statement of re-
ceipts and expenditure, when the former (includier the
habitue if last year of 5951. lls.) amounted to 6,2361. 9s.
Among the items were, toile, 3,361/. 16e. ; rent of Melts In
the tunnel, 4301. Os. 3d. ; rent of booms, 5271. 94., &o. The
' expenditure reached, on account of the tunnel, 3,6731. 3d.,
and, in addition, 1,1171. 7s. which had been paid to govern-
went; leaving a balance in hand amounting to 6401. 145. l
Mr. F. Guam moved the adoption of the report,
which, being seconded_ was agreed to unanimously. The &airman observed that though the receipts from
the tolls wereshout 4001. less than but year, yet the
report aright becomidered favourable, as they had only paid
the government 261. less than they did the previous year.
The tunnel could not be in a better condition, and with re-
gard to the falling off of visitors, he was informed by the
secretary that that arose from a diminution in the country
visitors to London. A Proprietor observed that en_ opinion
might prevail that the tunnel was mot safe. The Chainsaa
remarked that it was as strong sad as solid as ever, and that
It could only be damaged by an earthquake. In answer to
several questions as to the appropriation of the tuned as a
medium for railway traffic, the chairman observed that it was
well known to railway companies that the company was
ready to part with Its property for that purpose ea say res-
mumble offer. Mr. B. Hawes and the chairman were re-
elected directors. Thanks were then voted to them, the chair-
man, sad the mammary.
CRUEL SENTENCE ON A CHILD.—It would be
urn from our law reports yenerdsy, that the Supreme
Court has (mashed the sentence pronounced by Bailie
Thomson on a boy of nine years of age for an alleged act of
theft. The character of the child I. thus cleared, but he
has had to bear the pain of twenty stripe*, in addition to
the misery of a criminal conviction and a lodgment In gaol,
so that the remedy afforded by the court is by no mouse
oommeasurate with the wrong. The action was raised
against the lieutenant of polies who had apprehended the
boy without a warrant ; and the fault of the magistrate
appears to have been that of trusting ton implicitly to
the accuracy of the police, convicting summarily on
inadequate evid,nce, and omitting to sign the
sentence in a regular manner. The resell of this
ewe will doubtless have a salutary effect in guarding the
Bailie. against these and other errors. It might tie ex-
pected that where a mere child end the helloes of decent
parents are concerned, the humanity of the bench would be
sufSclently active to scent out a Raw in the indictment, and
to prevent hasty and undeserved punishment; but if merle-
trams allow therneelves to be seared by the mass of juvenile
deliogwmy brought before them, and to regard the pro-
cedure et the police as unimpeachable, there is no end of the
error and kinetics into which they may fall. This ease is
doubtless • rare exception to the moral Omen of
Bailie fatties, but it has brought down the severe
caesura of the overt of and. as far se
we can use, not without desert.— Deily Neil.
The complainer was the ern of respectable parents, and living
in family wilt them, and regularly attending school, where
he seemed to have obtained the good opinion of his teacher,
and to have conducted himself beeeenagly. On the morning
in question tie boy was se meal al hems at Ida father'.
home, and had set Seen frees led. NM belt was away at
his usual ampepentt, by whiehe seemed yaps anfledent to
maintain his holy. In Am denuesinnies the eceopiehare
was apprehended 'Meat my =ken chow ereomplaint,
mad haste, beta lam oat of bed, =a at nine Wren to the
pollo•-affisa.