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LONDON, THURSDAY. APRIL 29.

THE Conservatives are paying the penalty of their
insurrection against the PALMERSTON dynasty. Bo
king as they acquiesced in the occupation of the
Treasury Bench by Lord PALMERSTON he openly
opposed, or covertly thwarted, all measures of Por-
liamentary Reform. He resisted the introduction of
any special measures of Reform by private Mem-
bers, both in the last and the present Keaton,
under the pretext that he was this minion to
introduce • general measure of his own. And
as soon is Parliament assembled in the present
year, he introduced bis India Bill principally with
a view to divert its attention from the question
of Parliamentary Reform. So confident was he of
the success of this stratagem, so certain that he had
cut out more work for Parliament than it could get
through in the course of the session, that he did
not even take the trouble to get his promised
Reform Bill shaped out in case it should be needed.
The Marpio4 fidelity of Mr. Int,mAis Rum:ones
elicited this fact, when by obsequiously entreating
his patron to favour the House of Commons by pro-
ducing his new Charter, even though be was out of
ales, he compelled the great man to confess that
there was no such Charter is rerun *Weird. Seeing
his lordship so indefatigable in his anti-Reform
labours, the Conservatives rashly thought they

might calculate on his aid in this line of business
ender any circumstances ; and accordingly, when a
♦evolution de nutpris drove him from power, they
took heart of grace, and ascended the vacant throne.
But the deposed Minister hes not been long in
teaching them that it is only on the condition
of their allowing him to retain office that
he will do their dirty work. In office he
would have opposed Mr. Locks KING'S Bill for
extending the County Franchise ; out of office he and
his retainers either stand neutral or actually •'pport
it; and so Mr. Dimmer.m, after magnanimously
moving the " previous question," was warned by his
whippers-in that the PALNIIWTON squadrons had
left the Conservative camp en masse, and was obligel
to allow his motion to be negatived without al
division.
This is one of the many blessings which we owe
to the deposition of Dictator PALMLINTON. We
have his whole tail either supporting Mr. Locks
KING'S Bill in the House of Commons, or abstaining
from opposition; and we have the Times and the
Globe out of doors doing their best to get up an
agitation in its behalf. Lord JOHN linsao t. very
properly urged the passing of the County Fran-
chime Extension Bill into a law, on the plea
that seeing Parliament will not give us Reform
in bulk, we must even take it in detail. Am
extension of the County Franchise would materially'
accelerate other essential reforms. We hops Mr. I
Local Bina will make bay while the sun shines,
and push on his Bill while if dillies PALMERSTON
is sulking and lying idle in his tent because
Agamemnon Driter has laid hold of the Briseis of
office. If he follows up his victory of Tuesday night
with promptitude and energy, he will speedily get his
Bill through the House of Commons, and the House
of Lords will scarcely venture to reject two measures
in one session, both of which relate exclusively to the
constitution of the representative Wasik et the Legis-
lature, and both of which are presented is it by large
majorities of that branch. Bat Mr. Locks meet
let no grass grow under his heels. It needy wane*
Comore. ati wee in the House et 0011111160118 are weakened
by the secession of the Pst.nzeurtnit section Mat
he can count upon carrying hie Bill with a high
band ; and if by any untimely accident befalling the
DISILBY Cabinet Lord PALMIIIITON is eves for a shirt
time restored to office, the Conservative snake, whisk
is oily scotched, will knit and be itself again. Now
so one can with say sonatisnee count upon the sur-
vival of the DIMINT Odium hem one hour to
smother ; for its amity is incurring defeats !ros-
trum continually the good will of the independent
Liberals to leave it neasesiled. Barely to allow the
DEIST Ministry to maintain itself in office is almost
as hopeless a task as to allow one of the dressed
dummies in a cheap clothier's shop to remain stand-
ing on its own legs without support. The mere stir
in the air occasioned by some thoughtless urchin
racing past is sometimes enough to blow the helpless
mannikin over.

IT won't do. The country has made up its mind
on the point, and the Howe of Commons, which in
this respect at least adequately represents the feel-
ing of the country, is equally decided. Church
Rates are doomed. It is not a case for oompromise ;
it does not admit of subterfuge. The time has
come when nothing short of a total abolition of this
odious and indefensible impost will satisfy the deter-
mination of the constituencies. Miserable enough it

is to see the chiefs of partios—Lord Joni! Russr.u.
among the number—overly retching at any substi-
tute, however absurd, for that measure of full and
complete justice which alone will, which alone ought
to satisfy the country. It is really dillicult
to say whether Mr. Puttea's proposal for making
Church Rates a permanent rent charge, or Mr.
BUXTON'S for increasing tithe in order to create a
tend for maintaining church fabric, be the more ab-
surd. It is not necessary to say more of either than
that they both tend tolls and perpet one a tax of which
the country demands the abolition, and which in the
course of a very few years would in all probability
abolish itself. The cry of the constituencies is—
Rismovs this impost, which we feel to be odious
o sad vexation." The answer of Mr. PULL= ie.--
is We can't do that, but we can change its near, sad,
• =ea that &hind style, sake it certain imaged of

asst on the absurd proposal. The numbeillrei
division list—ayes, 54; noeaq 31?--are th, 1111.0-
priate epitaph on the defunct solecism.
It is really lamentable that the wiser friends of
ths Establishment do not contrive in some way to

pat a stop to these very pitiable exhibitions. The
Church of England is rich ; the members of the
Church of England are jest now very much in
earnest. They are especially fond, am anyone who
knows anything of provincial life can testify, of de-
corating the fabric of their churches. Church-revival
is a great fact—erchiteeterally, at all events, if not

spiritually. Rational people will be well disposed
to agree with Mr. WAtrout, that the time hes come
when the jealousy of the law should no longer be
allowed to interfere with this particular develop-
ment of pious munificence. There can be no we/1-
grounded objection to meal so much of the Mart-
main Acts as may now operate to preclude parties
from making voluntary provision for the repair of
the church fabric. If compulsory rating were
aboliahed, and the artificial restrictions upon
private munificence removed, does any one
seriously believe that the least difficulty would
be experienced in maintaining our churches in
efficient repair? The more probable result would be,
that if the matter were left to individual exertion,
thousands would be readily contributed where
hundreds are now with difficulty raised. A com-
pulsory rate is practically incompatible with free-
will offerings. Where men must pay, they won't
give. Let it once be understoodthat the maintenance
of church fabrics was left to the voluntary liberality
of churchmen, with no legal impediment to its free
exercise, and no candid person can for a moment
doubt as to the result.

There are those who profess their inability to
understand "bow we can have a National Church

" establishment without some provision (i. e., core-
" pidsory provision) for the repair of places of woe-
" ship." The difficulty hardly deserves a serious
solution. We most have such a Church Establish-
ment as is practically possible, not such as is
logically and theoretically complete. In numbers of
parishes at the present day no rate can, or ever
again will, be levied for the repair of places of war-
ship. In every point, except being repaired by rata,
those places of worship belong to the National
Church Fetablishment. Does the circumstance that

they are not repaired by rats prevent them from
being national ? Surely the great end of a National
Church is to promote in the nation that spirit of
peace and goodwill which is the essence of the gospel
teaching. If the compulsory levy of a rate for the
repair of those fabrics, which could be otherwise
maintained, is hostile, nay, is fatal, to this spirit,
does not the argument derived from the notion
of a National Church wholly fail? Which is it
most desirable to keep up, the logical consistency of
ideas, or the practical harmony of facts ; to be oonse-
quential and quarrelsome, or inconsequential and
free from strife; to set our Christianity above our
metaphysics, or our metaphysics above our Chris-
tianity? Church Rates may, or may not, be essential
to the logical notion of a National Establishment; but
we all know that the attempt to enforce them on
conscientious objectors is grossly inconsistent with
the spiritual notion of a Christian Church.
It has also been represented as unreasonable to
uphold a provision for the payment of the clergy,
and to have none for the maintenance of the
churches. This argument is, of course, not intended
for those who, as advocates of the voluntary
principle, object to all compulsory pay-
ments either for clergy maintenance or
church repair. It is meant for those who,
acquiescing in Tithes, object to Church Rates.
Even with this class it can have no weight. The
mere fact that Tithes, as now settled, are set made
the subjects of general protest, and that Church
Rates are, creates a sufficiently wide practical dif-
ferentia between the two cases. But it does not rest
there. Much may be said in favour of Tithes re-
garded only as a national provision for a national
clergy, which cannot be urged with any truth in
favour of Church Rates. It is well that the teacher
should not depend too entirely upon those whom
he teaches for the means of subsistence. Sab-
servieney, oratorical display, the unceasing neces-
sity of finding new sources of excitement, are among
the objectionable results of a system which makes
the pay of the preacher depend on his popularity.
The system of a State provision for the clergy, has
many faults of its own, but it avoids these. There
is much to be said on both sides. If the thing were
to do again from the beginning it would, no doubt,
be done differently ; as it is there is no serious
desire in any quarter to alter or readjust
the last settlement of the Tithe question.
Bat no one contends that the compulsory system
of supporting Church fabrics has any inherent fit-
um in it in eomparison to the voluntary system.
And besides it ia, at the present moment; it long has
L been, and, as long as it last•, will manifestly eon-
; tinue to be, a fertile source of disquietude, vexation,
and strife. Is it wise, is it Christian, is it the part
1 of a prudent Churchman or an enlightened states-
; man to perpetuate this bitterness and ill-feeling for
the sake of some 300,0001. a year, which the volun-
tary exertion of Churchmen is abundantly compe-
. tent to supply ?

A DEAD calm reigns in the Money Market. Some
three weeks ago, after a lengthened period of inac-
tion, holders of money remarked with much satiafac-
tics symptoms of a revival of demand ; the applica-
tions at the Bank of &gland, in Lombard-
street, and in most other quarters, exhibited a
decided inoresae ; and the leading discount and
other establishments promptly took advantage of
the change. Instead of 21 per cent., the rate pre-
viously prevailing in the open market, 21 to 21 per
cent. became the general terms for first-claw
bills a movement which was sufficient of
itself to divert a moderate amount of busi-
ness to the Bank. Attention was at the same

time eagerly called to various circumstances leading
to the inference that a permanently increased de-
mand for money would henceforth be experienced.
It was pointed oat that in several branches of trade
a partial recovery from the lets stagnation wan
observable; that the highly encouraging advice'
from the Asiatic markets must give a sensible
stimulus to the industry of the manufacturing
districts; and that the pecuniary require-
ments of the Beat India Company, and
of the British Government, mast exercise an

influence upon the market. In all this, we featly,
~ the wish wee," to a great extent, " father to the
" thought." The increased demand witnessed at
the period referred to was undoubtedly promoted by
the payments on the Indian loan ; but this was
chiefly because t►e subscribers, instead of confining
tummies' to paying into the Fiat India Company's
Treasury the amount of the first instalment, pre-
ferred to anticipate the subsequent instalments. 8o

enermous was the supply of money welting invest-
meet in first-Wen securities that the New Pear per
Cent. Debentures of the East India Company haws at
once attracted a large mass of capital, both frost

Millions cannot peeribly &garb the money ntarket,
for stem approximating to ene-balf el thee.*** loan
has been paid up, and the remaining payments are
spread over a period of four months. Added to this,
the East India Company release the money almost
se fast as it flows in; 900,0001. is again rendered
available for the service of the commercial
public, having been handed over by the Com-
pany to the Bank, in repayment of the loan
obtained from that establishment jut prior to the
late monetary crisis. The only way in which the
Indian Loan could affect the money market would be
by the remittance of a portion of it to the East in
the shape of bullion ; but of this there seers* to be
at present no prospect whatever.
Whilst the Indian Loan, in so far as its influence
upon the money market is concerned, thus shrinks
into insignificant proportions, the very moderate re-
quirements of the British Exchequer, as developed
in Mr. DISRAELI'S Budget, cannot possibly lead
to any disturbance. The estimated deficiency
of six millions in the current year's revenue
has been redeeed to four millions. A million
ands half of this represents the amount which
the fitate had undertaken to appropriate in the cur-
rent year to the cancelment of Government Stock.
Mr. DISRAELI'S decision altogether to shelve this
obligation disposes of the difficulty in a way which,
though not perfectly satisfactory, effectually precludes
the idea of immediate financial difficulty. It is true
that a new issue of two millions of Exchequer
Bonds is proposed, but the money is wanted merely
to pay off the holders of the two millions which ex-
pire an the Bth of next month. This is a mere
treader of money which can only have a momentary
effect. It is by no means improbable that the re-
payment or renewal of these Exchequer Bonds may
be arranged in such& way—with the assistance, pos-
sibly, of the Bank of England-•-as actually to in-
crease the amount of unemployed capital.
_ . _

The pecuniary necessities of the -State, both at
home and in the East, being thus easily arranged,
the question arises, what immediate prospect is there
of a more active demand for money in purely com-
mercial channels? In some departments of textile
manufactures there is undoubtedly more business
doing, owing partly to the encouraging adviom from
India and China; bat trade, considered as a whole, is
still depressed, especially the export branch. Our
exports last month, as we gather from the
Board of Trade Returns recently issued,
were 14 per cent. leas than in the corresponding
month of last year ; whilst the decrease in the ex-
ports for the first quarter of the year was as much
as 18 per cent. The most that we can reasonably
hope for is a very gradual improvement in the
general business of the country. It will not be for-
gotten that similar stagnation was witnessed during
a period of five or six years after the crisis of 1847.
The value of money fell almost immediately after
that epoch to 3 and 2 per cent., and did not
rise permanently above 3 per cent. (the present
minimum rate at the Bank) until June, 1853. Com-

munications are now so much accelerated that the
re-echoes of the monetary crisis of 1857 are being
borne back to us from the furthest owners of the

commercial world with great rapidity ; and this
consideration is annulated materially to abridge
the duration of the collapse of trade. But in
proportion to the severity of the late shock to
confidence most be the caution of reviving com-
merce. Even an occasional failure in trades carried

on by means of long dated bills, tends to discourage
mercantile enterprise, ma proving that the after effects
of the pressure of last autumn have not yet entirely
passed away. The prolonged and almost hopeless
depression of the markets for colonial produce up to
within the last few days furnishes another proof of
the utter indisposition of the mercantile classes to
enter into any engagements savouring of specu-
lation.

We see the natural result of this state of things
in the present condition of the money market.
Capital overflows ; money is " a drug." The
great dealers in money really hold up their
hands in deprecation of fresh deposits. Deposi-
tors find themselves compelled to lodge their
money for one and two months certain before
these inexorable establishments will consent to re-

lieve them of it. Noe are the latter open to the
charge of striving to obtain an undue advantage ; for
where is their inducement to take in money, even at
so low a rate ss 2 per cent. per annum, if they can-
not possibly And employment for it? The rate of
discount in the open market hoe fallen again to
about 21 per cent. for choice bills; the Discount De-
partment at the Bank is again almost deserted ; and
the prospect of a superabundant supply of money
seems as clearly defined as ever.

Ms. dirnerroNs's licrrioN ON THE DANUBIAN
Panicrraf.rnae.—The kliewbig are the terms of the Imo-
tlea which Mr. Obsinone Intends to submit to the Homo of
Cartes ea Tuesday next .—" That en humble address be
puended to her Majesty, to submit to her Majesty that this
his.., hese* faded the obligations impend by the Treaty
of Park, so far as they effect the Danubian Principalities,
Ins °hawed with satisfaction the general know end spirit
dike doeheralisia rimorded by bar Makety's chief *nip-
twaliseg at the eaudennote of 1866, eiretemilag the fatare
orpnieslion of then Peritonea Lad ham* to convey to
hr Majesty the sanest hope of this home that, in the far-
thw promeastlan M this snisjsca, jot weight any be given to
those wishes of the people of Walkable sad of Moldavia
white, through Utak repressatatives elected b ooaknnity
with the add treaty, they have recently expressed."

In the House of Commons on Tuesday next Mr.
Mellor will more, as ea sowadmeat to Mr. Lyme. bill to
altar sad stood the Law ol Claus& PAWN "That. cessilier-
Mg the present conditions of the church rats question, it is
bet expedient to permit this istredactios of any bill miming
to that subject which does not pnwkis for the mein szliso-
non of church rates."

On going into committee to-toorrovr night, on re-
solstices relative to lodk, Lord Harry Vase will move,
"That the ohmage of drazommaces .to the AM pro-
posal by km Majasty'a late advisers to Wooster "be go-
vernment of India from the Beet India Company to the
clown, magas it larapedbint to premed torthar with Isglala-
tics ear. shyest ihning the proms 'mina."

CITT DISPIIMUST:—The sixty-ninth anniveresr y
dieser of this halleatima took pleas Met evening, et the
Albiaa Tames, dblierSstreet. The chair wee ocoapied
by Themes flunkey M.P., who wee supported by
Mr. AY= end Atha. Mr. Deputy Lett, 'rascal
other membure of the eseyaration, sad • umber et path
nessiemeted with the thy. The chain's; its prepaiag
Crle the charity, dated that during the pad year so
iniallMlS gating@ bid rellerod, s ent ele*•
dew hundred peen & There women Ilswthgthias whit 6-
we mewl 11001 aMI mu" mg he
SZI that theft the yet •
Ile -eieneat et
support it bed eadvol wee set NEON le nest esnest
ex paams. Me harimear. thet thew Mod et the
charity wed/ fed sad as te nake frisk insides., and that
the fade wail be pined is ask a peaks se to justify
hue is entheshig to held the din of treasurer,
which In bed inure, hit so siseit plemar• to
All up. Dthlag the wean& !tandem and sow nth- 1
seriphs' is the masust of 14e. mem saarmaced.
The Mamas Is pagoda( the man of the
dos espeend Ids meet et the abuses of thecc.Cd
Mayer, mid sad tint We was the fret eassias per eons
am whisk the laid macieleate a the City Ind set
thus by yesillsg. nary bail, however, the can-
nay et sae el the shisids, and dining_the year the corpora-
ties WA simm • demetion et 1011 The stailal
meats ware snits dineetios ot Kr. Idyls Grey-m
Maser wee admirably sened; the bill ad kw was meet enter-
she, bat at the ammo thee, wwW te the admirable ammo.
sand whisk diethuraishm the ad" ewaT MA was placed
ea the tale as het and la en geed order se it could be dose
ems at the seeellset party.

IDLY EYINIXO.

PARIS, WEDNIIIDA.
The acrd* of the Corps Legitlati4 which wee
pro/beta till May 1, has been further prolonged
to May 8. It wu found impossible to get through
the business this week.

The debate on the budget, which is not yet over,
has not been very interesting. It has hitherto
turned almost exclusively upon the question whether
a budget can be said to be in equilibrium when the
whole of the sinking fund is not set down u part of
the ordinary expenses of the year. The two most
interesting speeches on this point were those of
M. Deviack and M. Barochs, of which I subjoin
extracts :

X. Derrittcx said that, ma the reporter of the commissloo,
he had • declaration to make • he agreed with the government
eammalmery (11. Vultry) that the financial Austin was
eatiefeatery, but he entirely diamgreed with his swamis in
support a/ the proposition that the budget really miaowed •
surplus. M. Vultry had said that them was nothing but •

minnolarstanding about terms between the committee and
the government, but he (M. Devinok) would con-
tend that there was much more. There was •
difference on a point of principle. The sinking fend
amounted to 123 millions, consisting of 87 millions of den-
tin, properly so called, and 86 million, the amount of the
reserves. The question was, whether the some belonging
to the sinking fund ought to be inscribed in the budget of
expenses. Upon thedquesfion thercommittes bed so doubt.
It was in accordance with reason, precedent, end law, that
when • debt was contracted, the payment of linden • outdo
time should be provided for. What would be and of • de-
partment which should ranee to Laoribe amens hi obligatory
expense the sum neomeary to pay elf • lees f Why, the
worse would be nese* to mien the they te be made
Prconsats speak ,as effielthimer es priffelphe at
this ',abject. Frew the dime el the lend= el the Atha(
toad down to 1848, thin he me Merl on the budget to be
band which did ace plum the slaking fond swoons Its
enemas, not cce lbet MOW it as an neat. On this sub-
join be could math better then cite an authority, which,
le Ye egee, wee lie highest possible, namely, that of the
pormi MO& 1 rinanoe, who, in 1846, drew up the re-
plete& in WWI el 1847, end took care te put the sinking
had mai swages. This course wee positively pn-
=id hr • theme of 1827, and had always been fcllowel.
Mee lbey voted • loan of 1,500 millions, the Irandredth pen
Angina the do oinking had r pay It off, was napalm*
fie WI& Ths bed therefore takes en
eemeenea epos OWL lyi MINNA that • part of the um
amt's of Os daft 41004 1 seostarry, be Owed
from ils =NW aftispurel. MI la that owe the weer
seed amid tasks a spoil /anal kr authority be ores
al Ike ill minims onaprig tits Tarn. In the skean el
say era rossoure the whole 123 millions should be eatemei
la the budget se exposes; that we the basis of the French
financial system, the best in Europe. He knew that the ex-
ample of England might be cited. England had at this mo-
ment a budget with • deficit of 90 millions, and a national
debt representing a espial of more then 20 milliards. If on
the other side of the Channel a sinking thud were put in
operation according to the French system, the deficit would
De not lees than 299 millions. This we a state of things
which did not tempt imitation. But further, there was too
analogy between the ffnandel situation of France and Eng-
land. Console were at 97 while the French Threes were at
70. The reason for this difference he took to be that in Eng-
land CotiaoL were specially favoured, certain investments
being of neomeity made in theca exclusively ; while In France
investments were more free, and, moreover, railway
obligations had been allowed to come into competition
with the Bents. At • time when there existed such a power-
ful agency for praising down the Rena, it was very unfortu-
nate that the government should attack the principle of the
sinking fund. He had felt it • duty to contest the de:arise
put forth by the government ommaiseary. He thought every
effort should be used to bring the sinking fund into complete
operation. In matters of inane there timid be no raison-
dentending. The situation we In reality good enough for them
to dinette with any artificial representations to make it appear
beam. The country would know that the sinking fund,
which had not been in operation since 1848, was now to be
brought into play—but in part only. So long as it did not
operate to the fall extent, he would never admit that the
budget was in equilibrium, because the first condition of a
finandsl equilibrium was, that the anneal receipts should
correspond with the permanent expenditure.
M. BAKOCIIL in reply, add that so far trout attacking the
principle of a inking fund, the government was now asking
the Corps Legislatif to beer it into operation after • suspen-
sion of ten years. He was sorry to are the worth " deficit "
sod "want of equilibrium" in the report, because they
might produce • bed impression in the minds of those
not familiar with financial language. His profound convio-
lion was that they were not applicable to the budget of 1869.
It would no doubt have been very desirable to apply the
whole erne of 123 millions towards the extinction of the
debt, but the government was obliged to go on by degrees.
, As it was, the State would bare spent 7 millions less than it
bad received, and would besides have extinguished 40 mil-
' lime of the consolidated and 6of the floating debt. That
seas a great result.

A preliminary meeting of the members of the
Paris Conference was held to-day at the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, to examine the boundary treaties
between Turkey and Russia. The semiofficial Oat
Deutsch Post publishes the following as the pro-

gramme of the business to be transacted by the
plenipotentiaries :-1. The settlement of the Turco-
Russian boundary. 2. The definitive regulation
_ _ _

of the Moldo-Wellachian question. 3. Theratifica-
tion of the regulations for the navigation of the
Danube. Any question not bearing upon one of
these threw points which any power may possibly

desire to bring before the Congress will (the ()it
Deutsch Post affirms) be rigorously excluded from
their deliberations. The French journals may poe-

104 continue to harp upon the Isle of Perim, but I
eaa namely doubt that the French government is too
well aware of the determination of England not to

admit the jurisdiction of the Congress upon that
subject to attempt to bring it forward. There can
be no doubt that the question of Perim, if there be
any question about it, has nothing whatever to do
with the treaty of Paris.
A meeting of several foreign ministers was held
yesterday to consider a proposal for voting an inter-
national reward to Mr. Morse, the American, for
the discovery of a valuable improvement in the
electric telegraph ; but several of the diplomatists
present wishing for more precise instruct.ons from
their governments, the meeting was adjourned.
The fourteenth line vessel of the squadron of evo-
lutions will be christened the Louis XIV. It is
confirmed that this squadron will be augmented to
fifteen.

The Bourse continues to improve. The Rents
roes 100. for cash, and 150. for account, closing at
69 fr. 60e. in each case. Mobilier after some flue.
tuation, occasioned by speculations on the result of
the general meeting, rose 2fr. 50c. The Lyons rail-
way rose 7fr. 50c. Northern, 3fr. 75c. I and most of
the other lines 2fr. 50c. each.

The visit of the Emperor to Cherbourg for the
thseebid purpose of letting Is the water lato the sew dock,
the iosuguration of the stelae of Napoloos 1., and the opin-
ing of the railway to that himoreant port, is stated by the
local para.'s to be fixed for the 23rd of Jolt'.
. . . .

A Paris letter in the Indipetaance Belga says :
The Cologne Gazette affirms that M. de Haboar has been
ordered by his goverment to ask for some 'splenetic*. frost
Count Welty/kJ, touching the resent attitude of the cabinet
at Turfs, and putionkrly apropos of the vary explosive
speech of amoral I Marmara. According to the German
parr, the answer of the Minister tor Foreign Affairs was
h4.dly, bet evasive, and the Austrian Ambassador retired
' 61:411 the laterview very 111-eatislied with eh. result. lam
neither the oonidaat of M. de Hulas. 113 r the Minister for
Funks Alain; nevestiasims, idormation coming from a
god scmree authorises MI to acissarm, to a certain extant,
thealetement of the C6i0,01 Oswego.'

A petition to the Emperor is now in course of
dipaitare at Havre, pa*" that is ooreqemee of the
ozwaieva of the commerce of that port, k eta be
node the thief town of a sew *arum; to be and the
Was Maritime,

LIVERPOOL,THURSDAT.

The sergrotsamer Gambia, African Mail steamer,
has arrived at Liverpool. She briup dates from
Sierra Leone to April 5. She left at that place the
barques Rosetta and William Browman, the brig
Countem of Zetland, and several American 'hips.
The steam-ship Pearl, with Dr. Livingstone on
board, sailed on the 31st of March for the Cape, all
well.

The slave barque Almeida had arrived at Sierra
Leone, having been captured by her Majesty's ship
Conflict on the 26th April, in latitude 48 deg.
43 Mill.

The Gambia spoke the barque Mogul from Liver-
pool.

THE MED]

Comn one own 001111111PO/MINS.)
YALTA, Aran. 23, 1868.
The Prussian frigate Thetis, while in Greece,
shipped on board soma oxen of yard sakes end roam
antique marbles, value about 2,0001.
These are from the quarries tee dimmers& by Professor
Siegler, who was employed by the Limn of Prima to explore
Ia Greece : and on one of the Weals of the Archipelago, and
oleo near Cape Hatapan, he dimmed Immense palatine
of these valuable marbles. These he hampered his &tannin
by purchasing large tracts of lands In which the garrise are
situated, and he is now successfully wceidng them. His
Holiness the Pope has ordered 300,000 f. worth; 300000 E
worth are also ordered for France. It is said the supply is
inexhaustible, so that any quantity ma be obtained.
The Prnesiaa frigate sailed for Lisbon on the 23rd.
Oa the 20th the strived from Southampton, and
ameeded on to Alexandria a few hours after.
Oa the 21d the Wye arrived from Marseilks with the
Mamba mail and passengers, but still remains In Malta
;rvieltegicht.iir the Teviot, with the potties yid Southsaiptoo,aa
The allot* with India nail, arrived amass day, end pro-
ceeded an to Alexandria.

Haw Majesty's ship Wanderer waits the arrival ot the
Twice lo rowed to Lord Lyon, with letters for the dent.

COLLISION BETWEEN TWO STEAMERS
Ili TEI CITAIIRIL.-(TH18 DAY.)

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SOUTH

F, Timmlnv.

The South Western Steam Packet Company's
steamer Havre, bound from Havre to Southampton, cruse
into million this morning with the same company's Ammar
Wager, bound from Southampton to Havre. The eallislon
took place in mid channel. The Wonder was so much Surged
that ohs wu obliged to be towed beck to Southampton by
the draw Ham. The latter vernal is damaged also. The
Weeder had upwards of forty passengers, a few of whom are
'lightly injured. The steamer South Western will be
&spades& to Hans this afternoon, in lieu of the Wonder.
It is oomeldered vorpthdai that the Wonder was not cut
down to the vmer's