The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-24 00:00:00

CARDINAL ANTONELLI'S DESPATCH.

The Nord of yesterday, referring to Cardinal
Antonelli's despatch, says " The despatch,
or rather the essay of the chief Secretary of
State of his Holiness, tells us nothing very
new, except that those who hoped to see
reconciliation between the Papacy and the
kingdom of Italy must once again cocsider their
hope as belonging to the realm of departed illusions.
Cardinal Antonelli issues a fresh edition of recrimi-
nations against the new order of things created in
Italy and against moderu principles, social and
politica!, recriminations so familiar to the Roman
Cabinet, and which, despite the undoubted talent
with which they are presented in the despatch in
question, Lave lost nothing of their habitual
acrimony. The object of the Cardinal is in sub-
stance to show that the execution of the conven-
tion of the 15th of September must inevitably
lead to the complete ruin of the possessions and
power still left to the Pope, and that it is the duty of
all the catholic powers to intervene in order to save
the papacy and the remnants of its patrimony menaced
by the revolution, and by what in the opinion of
the statesmen of Rome is little better, the Italian
government, and its "bands of invaders." It is
very curious that among the conditions of the
papal government's weakness Cardinal Antonelli
cites the penury of the pontifical treasury, resulting
from the obligation it is under to pay the debt
appertaining to the provinces it has lost, and from
which it derives no revenue. After the resis-
tance of the Holy See to the execution of
the clause of the September treaty, the
object of which is precisely to put an end to
this abnormal state of things, the complaints of the
Secretary of State are completely out of place. But
the Holy See likes to play the martyr ; that is one
of its favourite objectives, and at the same time
one of its principal forces ; and as a matter of
course it neglects nothing which can favour the ap-
pearance of martyrdom, even at the expense of
truth."

TEE CATTLE PLAGUE Rierrrawn—An analysis of
this week's cattle plague returns shows that of the counties
England, Wales, and Scotland, 22 counties remain free
from the discus. Is 34 counties no cases have been re.
ported as occurring during the week. 27 counties show an
increase of 2,281 cases. 23 counties and the metropolitan
police district show a decrease of 870 coma. Showing a
total increase during the week ending February 17, 1866,
is England, Wales, and Smorland, of 1,411 cases, as com-
pared with the week ending February 10.
THE COEPoRATIoN Or LONDON AND THE CATTLE
PLAGUE. —A special Court of Aldermen was boldest yester-
day at Guildhall, for the purpose of considering what steps
should be taken in reference to the act to amend the law
relating to contagious or infectious diseases in cattle and
otter animals, which has just been passed by the Inials-
tura. The Lord Mayor presided, and there was a full at-
tendance of tnembeis of the court. A deputation from the
Markets Committee of the Court of Common Council was
also preeeot. The town clerk (Mr. Woodthorpe) at the
request of the smart read the fourth and the eighth section
of the new act of parliameot, by the fleet of which the Court
of lord Mayor and Aldermen of the sty of Leedom was de-
clared lobe the "local authority" for the Garwood carrying
oat the whole of the prorisioss, with the exception of mak-
ing a rate to cover the expenses ism red, the power to do
which was vested in the Metropolitan Board of -Works. The
otter pectins gave power to the !ma authority so consti-
tuted to delegate their power to a oommitteein ehediffannt
districts, who would have full power to act in all matters
connected with the carrying out of the act. Mr. Woad-
thorpe at the same time reed a letter that haled received
from the Markets' Committee of the Court of Common
Owareil, informing the court that they had received
a letter from fin George Grey, telling their stleatiaa
to the provisions of the new set of perliement, sad
questing them them to make the Deressary atraorments for
providing markets and other means far supplying the
metropolis with deed meat. The committee were &onions
to scaler with 'the Omit of Aldermen upon the subject,
in ceder that they might co-operate in divot* the object
in view, ••4 a deputation from the Markets' Committee
wets sow' is attendants for that pintoes. After semis die-
<maim a viatica wee Mall that the Eke:Bl.oo%th et Lamle
skald be formed into • committee with the members
the special committee of the markets, and that such com-
mittee be the foal authority for the purposes of the act
of parliamenb under dirassicia. 'no motive was carried
unsaimemir,

Supply—Committee.
Supply—Report.
Exchequer and Audit Departments Bill—Second reading.
National Debt Reduction Bill—Third reading.
Savings Beak' and Poet-DOW Saving* Banks Bill—Third
reading.
Penelope Bill—Committee.
Lebow.* Claims' Dwellings Bill—Second reading.
Jamaica Government Bill—Committee.
Cattle Diseases (Ireland) Bill—Ekroond reading.
Artisans and Labourer"' Dwellings Mill—Second reading.
Nonce' or Merrieut.
Visonant Hamilton—To ask the Secretary of State for
the Home Departmeot whether the government have re-
ceived any authentic additional information on the subject
of the late attempt stated to have been made to land sheep
surreptitiously on the north meat of Ireland by boats
from a ship bound from a Bootee so an English port.
Mr. Nicol—To ask the Vice-President of the Committee
of Council on Education whether any steps have been
taken to obtain, through the local authorities In district'
infected with the cattle diverge accurate weekly informa-
tion ea to the number wf cattle " attacked, lolled, died,
sad reeweeted aid oleo as to the sumer of preventive
end curative treatment in thine dietreits ; sad whether
there is any change in the character of the dimes sines

its first spiesranis.
Mr. Gregory—To oak the First Commissioner of Works
whether it is the intention of her Majestyls government,
in the bill which is to be brought in to remove the cense-
dans of 'lateral history from Bloomsbury to Kensington, to
continue the present tenet as the governing body of the new
UMW= : whether it is their Intention to %traduce pro.
visions to stable the triunes* to dispel* of duplicates to
other museums : and whether it is their intention to move
the estimate for the new museum at Kensington before as-
certaining whether parliament is preparJd to break up the
British Zoe= and transfer the natural history mike-
Um; to Kensington.
Mr. H. Bartow—To ask the President of tie Pear-
law Board to state oa what principles he considers Elsorris
Telegraph Companies ought to be assessed for the purpose
of the Poor-rats.
Mr. Hadfield—To ask the Attorney-General whether the
revision of the skeleton will be pro:waded with this session.
with a view to repeal old. useless, and obsolete meta of

parliament.
Mr. Haabury-Tracy—To ask the President of the Board
of Trade,
_whether the attention of the government has
bras Galled to the peat decrease in the number of ap-
and boys bone by our merchant ships
_mad the
iMsaeed employment of foreign seamen • "theater their
attention has been called to the great prey:dame of scurvy
la the marabout navy ; sad, whether, under them einem-
Mabee% any measures will be takes to extend to the crews of
merekset ships the bend's derived from that system of in-
, spatien of provision and accommodation sew in form in
r to emigrants, convicts, and other peseenges.
ilielliblaset—To ask the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether any arnagententa have been
made to issues the uniform carrying into egad of the
Primes Aot of hat session; sad, if so, whether sash er-
rsegemeota inhale the appointment of an &Ultima in-
spector of prisons.
The Attoroey-Oneral for Ireland—Petit Juries (Ireland)
—Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to Petit
Juries in Ireland.
Lord O. Paget—Navy estimates (is ocenazittee at supply).
Yr. Childers—Suppleamatary estimates New Zealand
war ; and supplementary estimate civil services.
Oa going late Committee of Supply.
Mr. White—To move the following resolutions :—" That
the expenditure of the government baa of late years been
exasedve • that it wee and is now ' taken in reat measure
out of thZ strategs of the people, mid forms in no small
degree a deduction from a scanty store whirl is necessary
to entire to them a enffwiney, not of the comforts of life,
but even of the prime necessaries of food, of clothinm of
shelter, and of fuel." " That this house, whilst
of fie obligation to maintain the enmity
of the musky at home and the protection of Its
interests abroark iD ilin":l4 1111141MSCI leiih tite yr-
phi itimatity of enemy in every departammi of the
state, and is of opinion that no administration is deserving
of the conildeon of this hence and the country, which
shall not relieve the present bind= of Unties ea the un-
represented and other classes, by making an early and Imp
reduction of the government expenditure.*
Lord R. Montagu —To silt attention to the inoon-
•11111i0000 of the eoeflioting jurisdictions (se to what,
lighting, and cleansing the streets) in the the metropolis ;
and to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
if her Majesty's government purpose to legislate upon the
subject.
Mr. H. B. Sheridan—To call the attention of the
Secretary of State for the Home Department to a recent
case in which a gentleman, returning at night from a mo-
feeslooal engagement, was violently attacked es a public
highway, and to ask upon what evident., the perms so
attacked has been locked up in Maidstone Gaol for defend-
lag himself.
Bir J. Walsh—On navy estimates, to call the atten-
tion of the house to the importance of continuing the con-
struction of free-clad men of war ; and to move for return
of the total cost of building and equipment of the Warrior
and Agincourt respectively.

TUESDAY. Fl 5. 27.
North= or Monona.
Lord Stanley—To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether his attention has been called to statements made
in the London and China Telegraph of the sth inst. is
referees:* to the exchange question in Japan ; and to ask
him to produce a copy of the report made by Mr. Arbuth-
not, of the Treastu7. en the operation of the present
system of appropriating the profits arising out of the ex-
change ; and whether any sums bed been carried to the
credit of the public accounts, out of the profit arising from
the difference between the threes% value of the Jepson,
Ichibon and the rate at which it is supplied to the naval,
military, and civil services.
Mr. ilibbert- Capital Punishment+ in Prisons—Bill to
permit capital punishments to be carried out, under certain
rielatioos, within the interior of prisons.
Mr. H. B. Eiheridsn—Railways (Orterds' and Passengers'
Communication)—Bill to compel the directors of railway
companies to provide efficient means of communication
between the travellers by sad the guard in charge of rail-
way trains.
Mr. B. Glabrous —erloeial Goverson (Retiriog Pensions)
Act Ameodment —Bill to emend an sot pored last eerie°
Galled " The Colonial Governors (Retiring Pensions) Let."
Mr. Ayrton—Metropolitan Local Ooverament,
Select committee to inquire into the local government and
local taxation of the metropolis.
Mr. Crawford—Rest India Communicatioos—Select com-
mittee to inquire iota the practical working of the present
videos of telegraplrc and postal communications between
this country and the East Indies.
Sir B. Bridge fl
herPlague—That an bumble
address presented to Majeaty, conveying to her
Majesty the earnest desire of a large portios of her subjects
that a Lord's Day be specially set apart for prayer and
humiliation, on accoant of the national calamity mused by
the cattle plague.
Lord R. Montage—Vletovia—Address for copy or ex-
tract' of despatches and paper_ relating to the &pate
between the two houses of legise in tbe colony of Vic-
toria concerning the Appropriation Bill of 1865.
WIDIIIIDAY, Frs.
OEDX2B OF IDS DAY.
Qualification fir Officio Abolition Bill—second reading;
Fellows of Colleges Declaration Bill—second reading.
Narthex or Mimosa.
Mr. Newdegate—Oa second reading of Qrtilification for
Moss Abolition Bill, to move that it be read a second
time open that day six months.
Mr. Walpole—Ou method reading of Fellows of Colleges
Declaratios Bill, to move that it be read a second time upon
that day six months.
FRIDAY, Bianca 2.
Norman or Morrows.
Mr. Maguire—To ask the Attorney-General for Ireland,
whether ha considers the present state of the law, practice,
and procedure of the troth Court of Admiralty satisfac-
tory ; whether there is any special reason why a measure of
reform should not be based upon the report and recom-
mendations of the royal commission of 181,4 sod whether
it is the intention of the government to allow another
legatos to elapse before such a measure be practically under-
taken, or to introduce it this year is sufficisot time to
afford a fair chance of eta being pease& during the prenent
session.
of farther
Mr. Maguire—River Plats—Addrea for copy
correspondence relative to the war in the River Plate (is
osationation of papers already laid upon the table).
Os going into Committee of Supply.
Mr. B. Cave—To ark the President of the Poor-lawßoard,
whether be Intends to bring in a bill, daring this thesine,
for the rating of mines and woods to the relief of the

poor.
Mr. Gregory—That so humblo •ddr•es be presented to
her Majesty, that oho will be gosiously plowed to the her
isflosooe with foreign powers for theparpoes of maim the
prineiplo that pirate property should be hem from captors
fry sea a maxim of idermitirmal maritime law.
Mr. Nekswiolt—T• ask the Presideet of the Peor.lirir
loud whether ha pregame, dodo( tho prom* esmiso, to
bring is a bill for this purpose of rating woods to the relief
of tpo poor, mad thy road mann for the "modeled of
the poor-law, fouedwt ow the report of the select oommittee
presented &deg tbe last maim.
Gemara Da
Irish call &Motive to tho report of the
onsadtbee ot Irish lethettoo presided thet sessile. •

Notice is given in last night's Gazette that the
Qaesu will hold courts at Buckingham Palace on the fol-
lowing days :—Friday, Much 9 ; Friday, March 16 ; Satur-
day, March 24 ; and Moeday, May 14, at 3 o'clock ; sad
Tuesday, June 19, at 4 o'clock. The following are the
regulations to be observed:—By her Majesty's command
the number of ladies and gentlemen attendiag each court
will be limited to two hundred and fifty. innludioll those
who will be presented to her Majesty. It is expected that
gentlemen will present themselves at her Majesty's courts
only when is attendance upon the ladies .1 their families.
Those gentlemen who have not teen presented to the Qom
will, under such circumatanoes, be eligible for presentation
to her Majestyat these einem. The pressatationof ladies and
gentlemen will be limited to sue heedred at each court.
Ladies and gentlemen wishing to attend her Majesty's
courts mast send in their names aid addresses to the Lord
Chamberlain'■ Office, St. Jentes's Palace, S.W., on or after
Thursday the Ist of March, and these names will be sub-
mitted foe her Majesty's approval in the order of their
receipt at the office. All epplieetioes mast be made in
writing, and no named will be received previous to the Ist
of March. Ladies and gentlemen who desire to be pre-
sented to her Majesty musk in like meaner. seed be
their names and addling; to the Lord Chamberlain's-
Mee within the days above-mentioned. ♦ letter from
the lady or gentlemen by wham each preandiatiss le &ebb
made must in ell amen be forwarded. The Queen has been
graciously pleased, with regard to these courts, to dispense
with the regulation that the lady or gentleman must attired
the court at which they propose to make presentations to
her Majeety. The Lord Chambeelsia will forward to all
piteous who me be received eider the above regulations
cards for their admission to Buckingham Palace at the'
court which her Majesty shall be pleased to appoint foe
their reeeptios. In seeding in their MUM ladles sod
gentleman are requested to mastics the court which they
would prefer to attend. All those ladies and gentkinen
who mein ends d admisrien to Bueidegheas Palms sect
requested to bring with them two large cards with that"
dames clearly written thereon, one to be left with the
Queen's pegs in attendance end the otiose to be delivered
to the Lord Chamberlain, who wM aanounee the name to
her Majesty. Is the cased pressetatioa the name of the
presenter must be inserted on the card. The state sport•'
merits will be open for the remotion of company main to
court an hoar previous to each court. Full dress—MOM
with trains. Smits, Lord Chamberlain. •

Notice is also given that his Royal Highness the
Priam, of Wales will, by command of the Queen, bald
levees at St. James's Palace, oa behalf of her Majesty, as
Wedseeday, the 7th of Mush next, end co Meaday, the
19th of March next, at 2 o'clock. It I. the Queen's OM
sure that preasatations to hie royal highness at these levees
shall be considered as equivalent to preseetstions to beg
Majesty.