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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVE, G,' MARCH 13, .g 167.

future, he must expect present legislation to be
severely criticised. The House of Commons, se
well as the general public, wish the question of
metropolitan Poor-law refs inn definitely settled upon
a humane and equitable teals, and are willing to
make concessions they would have refused indig-
nantly a few years ago. The ease with which
Mr. HARos's measure has passed its various stages,
and the favourable comments it has evoked, suf-
ficiently prove this ; and we can but hope it may
work as satisfactorily as its author would have us
expect. We cannot forget, however, that a large
proportion of the inmates 14 our metropolitan
workhouses will be exposed to the same risks as
now ; that the constitution and management of
these institutions are not materially altered ; that
guardians may still keep down the rates at the ex-
pense of the poor; and thatthe theoretical "orders"
of the Poor-law Board may be ignored as now.
We believe that in the present state 44 public
feeling Mr. HARDY might have obtained parlia-
mentary sanction to a far more comprehensive
measure than he has introduced ; but we are
thankful to him for acknowledging the true prin-
ciples upon which reform in our poor laws should
be based, and for admitting the grave and pressing
necessity for change.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

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The Queen and Princess Louise drove out yester-
day afternoon.
Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, accom-
panied by Princess Christian.
Prince Leopold went out walking, attended by Mr.
Kahl.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went to
London this afternoon, and visited the Prince and Princess
of Wales at Marlhorough-bouse.
Her lllajesty afterwards returned to Windior Castle.

The Duchese of Roxborghe, Major-Genera Hon. A. N.
Hood, and Colonel Hon. A. Hanlinge were in attendance.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Keppel, rode out on horseback yesterday.
Mr. Henry Barraud had the honour of submitting yes-
terday at Marlborough-house his engraving of " Rotten-
row" to the Prince of Wales..

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Hon.
Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Duke of
Ituckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford
Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Right Hon. H. L. Com , the Duke of Richmond,
Lord J. Manners, and the Right Hon. Gathorne
Hardy.

A deputation from the Liverpool Steamship Ownerr
Association, introduced by Mr. Graves, M.P., and con-
sisting of Mr. W. H. Wilson (vice-chairman), Mr. J. J.
Bibby, Mr. W. Inman, Mr. F. it. Leyland, Mr. Robert
Allan, Mr. T. Orford, Mr. W. Cunard, Mr. J. Bacon, Mr•
J. C. Burns (representing himself and Messrs. Wiser),
and Mr. A. I'. Squarey (secretary), bad an interview with
the Duke of Richmond at the Office of the Board of
Trade, yesterday, in reference to the affairs of the Mersey
Dock and Harbour Board.

HEALTH OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
(THIS DAY.)

At 1 o'clock to-day there was no material im-
provement in the condition of the Princess of Wales, the
reply to visitors at Mu !borough House being that the
health of her royal highness was about the same as yes-
terday.

It will be seen from the Court Circular that her
Majesty the Queen arrived in town yesterday from Windsor
Castle, and paid a visit to.her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wales.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, attended by Lady Caroline Cud and
Baron de Lube, arrived at St. James's Palace on Monday
from the Continent.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured Lady Moles-
worth at dinner last evening. The company invited to
meet his royal highness included the French Ambassador,
the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of
Cork, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl
and Countess of Dartrey, Lady Susan Vane Tempest,
Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., the Hon. Frederick
and Lady Adel►ide Cadogan, the Hon. Charles Carrington,
Lord William Hay, M.P., the Lord Chief Justice of Eng.
land, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe,
and Colonel Tyrwhitt, in waiting on his royal highness.
Last night the Countess Percy had an assembly
at Northumberland House. It is some years since the
ducal residence was thrown open for a reception. Not-
withstanding the inclemency of the weather a large num-
ber of visitors responded to the countess's invitations.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 'T.'
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TiEE EASTERN, QUESTION-ITALIAN
PREPARATIONS.

The Italian government has had three vessels of
war for some time in the Candian waters. The
Italia now announces that this number of vessels
is to be considerably augmented, and adds, " Italy
is preparing for the grave events which may take
place in the spring, and which everybody antici-
pates."
" The Italian fleet," writes the Florence cores-
pondent of the Dibots, " collected at Cagliari
under the orders of Admiral Ribotti, will leave for
the Levant in a few days. Between this and the
month of April events are expected to take place
in the East, and Italy appears destined to play •
considerable part in them—a part of conciliation
rather than of war—a part which it is difficult to
define, but which it is easy to foresee."

(uures's Tztrozzays.)
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
PARIS, MARCH 13.

The Munitevr of this morning says :—" The
Prince imperial has been indisposed for a few days
past, on account of a contusion of the knee. He
is now, however, considerably better, and it is ex-
pected that he will be able to resume his usual
exercise very shortly."
The Senate has adopted the modification of Art.
26 of the constitution.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, MARCH 13.

Prince Carignan has arrived here.

The King and Queen of Portugal are expected
in Italy next month. They will stop at Paris on
their way in order to visit the Exhibition.
The Italia states that there is nothing to justify
the report of a projected marriage between Prin-
cess Margharita of Savoy and the Hospodar of
Roumania.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

MALTA, Mssen U.
The Delta left at 9 p.m. yesterday, and the
Ceylon leaves at 2 p.m. to-day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on
the 13th, and the latter at Southampton on the
20th inst.

SUEZ, MARCH 12.
The Malta, from Bombay March 1, arrived at 3
p.m. to-day. _

OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, React( 9.

The Nyanza, from Southampton 4th inet., ar_
rived to-day at 9 a.m. and left at 2 p.m. for
Alexandria. Experienced two days bad weather.

THE BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAics 13.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pera has arrived here with 52 passengers,
1,6101. in specie, and a general cargo.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.

The royal mail steam-ship China, from Halifax
and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at 9.20 a.m.
to-day (Wednesday), with 115 passengers ands,ooo
dole. in specie. After landing all the mails and
ten passengers she proceeded immediately for
Liverpool. All well. She experienced very severe
easterly gales throughout the passage.

NEW YORK, FEB. SS, Bynum.

The tariff bill is regarded as virtually defeated
fur the present session, in consequence of the re-
fusal of the House of Representatives to concur in
the Senate amendments and refer the bill to a con-
ference committee.

The House of Representatives have reconsidered
and finally rejected the amendment to the Revenue
Bill abolishing the tax on cotton.
Governor Brownlow has issued a proclamation,
announcing his determination to call out the militia
to protect the Union men in Tennessee.

NEW YORK, FEB. EVENING.

The Senate has passed the bill authorising the
issue of 100,000,000 dollars three per cent. loan
certificates for the redemption of compound interest
notes.

The House of Representatives has passed the
amendment to the Army Bill, ordering the dis-
bandment of the sou them militia. The Army
Appropriation Bill, as passed, prohibits the Presi-
dent from removing General Grant or assigning
him to do duty elsewhere than in Washington
without the approval of the Senate, and requires
all the President's military orders to be issued
through a general of the army. It is stated that
General Grant favours the bill for military
government of the south.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, FEB. 25.

Advises received here from Mexico state that a
severe battle took place at San Luis Potosi, on the
4th inst., in which republicans were utterly routed
losing all their artillery.
&oohed() shot 190 foreign imperialist prisoners,
and ordered all foreign volunteers captured from
Miramon to be shot for their depredations at
Zacatecas.

A force of 800 imperialists, on their way to
reinforce the capital, were entirely routed and 500
captured.
It was stated that the whole of the French have
would have left Vera Cruz by the middle of March.
NEW YORK, Faa. 28.
_ _ _

Advices from Zacatecas to the 2nd inst. received
via New Orleans announce that the republicans have
captured the towns of Tehuantepec, Coluna, and
Guanajata.

OM TILIKIRAPIL)
NEW YORK, MARcn 12.

The Republicans have carried the elections in
New Hampshire, Mr. Harriman having been
elected governor, and three republican candidates
having been returned to Congress in that State.

A letter from Pesth, of the sth says :—" Yester-
day evening I attended the meeting of the peers assem-
bled to consider the Indemnity Bill, which, par parte Ouse,
they confirmed by a unanimous vote on the motion of
Baron Vaij. The vote was given standing, and fol.
lowed by three Elena.' The coup deg offered
by the house was very striking. All the magnates
(peers) were attired in the national costume, each
uoble wearing a curved schnetar ; whilst the bishops ap•
peered in full canonicals, those of the Roman church on
the right of the house, and those of the Greek faith on the
left. The Greek papas are wonderfully picturesque, with
their flowing beards and gorgeous vestments. The apart.
meat in which the magnates hold their councils is very
large and lofty, the roof ornamented with oriental patterns
in fresco, and supported upon enormous marble columns,
of great value. The House of Peers does not assemble in
the same building as the Commons, but uses the principal
ball of the Pesth Museum ; whilst the deputies meet in
the Land-Haus. Both legislative bodies will shortly be
united in a magnificent palace, which will be erected in
the large square now occupied by the German Theatre."
The first concert at the Tuileries is to take place
on Monday neat, the artiste of the Opera Cotuique being
the singers called on to appear before the court.

I .
VEROI',StTVOPERA QP " DON CARLOS."

The long llpected opera of .Desk Carlos, n five
aorta. which was prodneed on- teky night in Paris in
the premise of the Empercaltd press and a full house,
is spoke/kW as a work of great merit. Its nix en acne is
said to have been magnificent. The ballet de in mac is a
marvellous work of art—the decorative splendour of the
third act being on a level with the grandest operatic
spectacle ever witnessed.
Those who are acquainted with the Don Carl.: of
Schiller, or the Philip 11. of Alfieri, will have a general
idea of the plot. The leading scenes of Schiller have been
preserved. The scene in the first act between Pose and
Don Carlos ; the garden scene in Aranjuez, in which Don
Carlos reveals his fatal secret to the Queen ; the mono-
logue of Philip, and the scene between him and the
Grand Inquisitor—are all retained, and some of
them rendered almost literally from the text of
Schiller. "There are in the new opera," says
the Libert4 " beauties of a superior order. The finale of
the third act is • splendid inspiration, immeasurably
superior to anything that Verdi has hitherto composed.
No Italian artist represented in his operas the social
political, and religious aspect of his country so well at
Verdi. The internal agony of the mother country, her re
strained anger, her upheavings, her hopes suddenly raised
and violently crushed, her despair, her aspirations, And her
constancy were all pourtrayed by him in his former works.
The new opera no longer bears the traces of a state of
things that has passed away. The patriot can now rejoice
at the work that has been accomplished, and must look
in another direction. The citizen must disappear and give
place to the man. Don Carlos is the transition point from
the one to the other idea. At the same time we find in
Dow Carlos the characteristic merits and defects of its

author—force, energy, the love of the sombre, the
violent, and the disorderly. The maestro still indulges
in his excessive fondness for loud tones—the big drums
the cymbals, and cornets-a-pistons. There is one passage
where this produces • wretched effect. It is after the
pathetic scene in which Pose dies. Two cornets-a-pistons
begin a duo at this point, which produces a grotesque effect.
There are other blemishes of • like kind. Moreover, he
exaggerate.. as is usual with him, the vocal effects, he
cannot makr!tliem speak simply ;he i , be
forces as ii Le were afraid he word.: . . : p un-
derstood. At times, as in the finale I ret, b•
completely succeeds. Here he moves all the fibres of the
heart, and opens all the gates of the soul. He is great,
passionate, sublime, and measured. The citizens of Bra-
bant have come to Philip to represent their grievances.
Carlos introduces them. On the one aide are a group of
men poorly clad in black ; they chant a manly but plain-
tive phrase. On the other side the scene is full of sun-
light ; military music is soaring aloft, and around the
king, whose dominions extend over half the world, are
assembled the princes, the grandees, and notabilities of
the land. At a given moment the elements are in presence.
A terrible storm breaks forth. While the Brabantines
continue their austere choral, the choir, terrified
by Philip, who forces Don Caries to resign his
sword, begins a chant of terror and of mourning.
The vocal and orchestral masses of sound rise, moss, and
rectos' ; the military music joins in, and an overwhelm-
ing effect is produced, which recalls, without a shadow of
imitation, the immortal page in the first act of L'Afriectine•
Then the tumult subsides, the light is put out, and we
hear the lugubrious voices of those whom the auto-dale is
sacrificing to the greater glory of Philip, of the Grand In-
quisitor, and the Faith."

A FRENCH VIEW OF FENIANISM.

We extract the following from an article in the
Journal des Dotials of to-day from the pen of John Le•
moinne :

" The English ministers declare in the Chambers
every day that the Irish insurrection is extin-
guished, and that the troops which the government have at
their disposal are more than sufficient to suppress any
serious movement, and yet the revolt is not put down,
and will not be put down for • long time to come. It is
always ready to recommence. No doubt the regular troops
who garrison Ireland will win the day, as in
all conquered countries, when the enemy presents
himself, but be will not present himself. The
tactics of the insurgents are quite clear, and they have long
since indicated them ; to avoid any general action in which
they would be infallibly crushed, but to weary the troops
out by • mountainousand partisan warfare, dispereinginone
piece only to reappear in another, awl keeping the authorities
in a state of constant watcbfulnessand panic. The English
government is much more embarrassed than it chooses to
acknowledge by this impalpable and inapprehensible move-
ment. It has all the strength necessary to put down
disorder, but not elionii to re-establish order. Do what
it will, say what it will, order does not reign
in that eternal Warsaw of Ireland. The Fenian re.
volt is not an agitation for reform, which may be satisfied
by a reform bill ; nor • working man's strike, which may be
ended by a compromise or by weariness. It is not
• political movement which may be terminated
by the admission of • new class to the privi-
leges of old classes. It is an undisguised revolutionary
and social movement which has for its principle • change
in the form of government, and for its object the
transmission of property. It is as hostile to the
catholic church as to the English government. It
is an agrarian revolution in the full meaning of the term.
The Fenian/ are not an offspring without parents•
They cannot be called prokm sine main +whim.
Their ancestors are United Irishmen, Whiteboys, Heart.
of Oak, kc. Their mother is Misery, with her cortegr of
famine, fever, and pestilence, and • still more prolific
mother which is History."

According to a New• York telegram, dated yes-
terday, the Mexican Consul at San Francisco reports that
the liberals hold the city of Mexico.

The Bishop of Down has published a pamphlet
on Irish Church Reform, in which he has shown that in
five out of our twelve episcopal dioceses the church popu-
lation is only 2 per cent. of the population. These
dioceses are—Cashel, Team, Meath, Limerick, and Kil.
laloe. In Cashel the Bishop of Down shows 25 benefices,
with an aggregate income of 4,2181., and only 803 pro-
testis's, or an average of 12 a piece. In Team the Bishop
of Down shows that the protestant' are now only 2 per
cent., and actually 30 per cent. less than they were in
18:14. The bishop is anxious to redistribute our church
funds and employ them for the church'a good,

The Earl Fitzwilliarn, says the Dublin Express,
has shown an excellent example in going down to his
seat, Coniston, near Shillelagh, with his family. It is
understood to be his express intention to arm some hun-
dred of hie tenantry, and to embody them in defence of
law and order. Throughout the county of Wicklow the
utmost quiet continues, the neighbourhood of Enniskeny,
where the first prominent Fenian raid took place, being
as peaceful as any other portion.
The Bishop of London has invited three Irish
bishops to preach in the metropolis on Sunday next, being
St. Patrick's-day. The Archbishop of Armagh will preach
at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall ; the Bishop of Meath at
the Chapel Royal, St. James's ; and the Bishop of Lime-
rick at St. Paul's Cathedral.

The Tablet, in mentioning that the Earl of Gains-
borough has been appointed Lonl-Lieutenant of Rutland,
remarks upon the tact as another proof that under the
present government the principle of catholic exclusion of
which so much has been said is not in foroe.
V ter° Cot-Si LIBICAR.V.—It has been already
stated that M. Cousin bequeathed to the Sorbonne his
magnificent library, composed of 14,000 volumes, many of
them rare editious and of great value. But it is not
generally known that the deceased in his will entered into
very minute details on the subject. He requires that the
library shall be left just as it is, in the very mama place, so
that readers may be received in the apartment which he
inhabited fur more than 30 years, but now to be trans-
formed into one of the library rooms of the Sorbonne.
He also leaves to that building all the furniture and
engravings that adorned his room. He formally for-
bids any of his books being lent out of the premises. He
endows the Sorbonne with an annual income of 10,000 fr.,
viz., 4,000 fr. for the librarian, 2,000 fr. for the sub-
librarian, I,ooofr. for the trading-room clerk, and 3,0001 r.
for keeping the books in repair. Lastly, he designates M.
R.irthelemy St. Hilaire as chief librarian, and leaves him
all his papers, charging him expressly to write his (the
testator's) biography. The posts of chief and sub-librarian
are hereafter to be reserved for agree& of the university.
Having made all these dispositions, M. Cousin appoints
as universal legatees MM. Mignet, Barthelemy St. Hilaire,
and Fremyn, who will have at least 400,000 fr. to share
amongst them, after all deductions, and independent of
capital representing an annual income of b,ooofr, be-
queathed specially to M. Itiguet.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ort'leery.)
WIGHT C. WIGHT AND FIELD.

Dr. Spinke, Q.C., and Mr. Searle for the petitioner ;
Sir R. P. Collier, Q.C., and Dr. Tri,trini for the respon-
dent Serjeant Tindal Atkinson, for the corespondent.
This case, like the last (" Wood v. Wood and Stanger"),
was a suit brought by a husband fur a di„ ore;
on the ground of adultery alleged to have
been committed with a medical man ; and like that use
it was a second trial. On the former occasion the co-
respondent's nephew was also made • co-respondent. but
the jury acquitted him of the change. As regarded the
averments against Dr. Field himself, however, they were
unable to agree, and they were discharged without return-
ing a verdict.
The petitioner, General Arthur Cleghorn Wight, had been
in theservice of the East India Company from 1t0; to leol.
His marriage wail at Madras in 1837, and he lived happily
with the respondent till 1844, when they cane to Europe
on a three years' furlough. In consequence, however, of
disturbances in India he was recalled in Dt46, but in 1N47
he returned to England, where he hail left his wife during
his absence. In 1848 he was again summoned back to the
East, and owing to the delicate state of his wife's health he
left her in England. She joined them in December,
Her stay, however, was not long, for she returned to this
country in June, 1852. Some slight relationship existed
between Mrs. \right and Dr. Field, and she went on a
visit to him. In 1853 she went to reside at Charles.
street, Cleveland-gardens, and afterwards she went to
Rifle-terrace, Bayswater, the ocerespondent having
• fair practice in that district. During this
time General Wight, who continued out in India,
allowed his wife a competent allowance. in lied, how.
ever, she demanded that it should be increased by lOW.
a year. Her husband's means not allowing him to accede
to this request, a coolness arose between them ; in fact,
negotiations were opened for • separation, though they
came to nothing. In 1862 the petitioner retired from the
army on a pension of 3651. • year, and returned to Eng-
land. Through the intervention of friends • reconcilia-
tion was effected between him and his wife, and he went
to reside with her in Bayswater. Here they lived
together from 1862 to the early part of 1863. Dating
that time it was alleged that he treated his wife
with every kindness, and endeavoured to make
her happy in every way. For some reason, how.
ever, she was very discontented, and in January,
1863. without any notice to her husband, she disappeared
altogether from his house. The next day lie re.
ceival a letter from Mrs. Wight's solicitors, proposing
• separation. This took him by surprise, but having no
alternative, he agreed to allow his wife 200 f. a year, and
Dr. Field was made trustee under the deed of separation.
After this, General Wight visited the Sandwich Islands,
Scotland, and va ions other places. In May, 1865, cir.
cumstancee came to his knowledge respecting the conduct
of his wife which aroused his suspicions. Further inquiry
amongst servants who had lived with Dr. Field and Mrs.
Wight brought to light • variety of matters on which the
petitioner relied in support of his petition. The plea of
both respondents was a simple traverse.
A great number of witnesses (meet of whom were called
at the Lot trial) were examined. They consisted princi.
pally of servants and other persons employed about Dr.
Field's house ; and they deposed to various acts of fami-
liarity—some of them of an indecent character—which
they alleged that they had witnessed between the respond-
ents. They were of course severely cross-examined on
behalf of both respondents.
[The case was likely to last for some time.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN ILE CHALLIMGEIt.

The bankrupt With a pianoforte dealer, of Charrington.
street. Euston-toad. This was a sitting for examination
and discharge. The debts were 7.1241., and the assets
were unusually large, being upwards of 4,0001., consisting
principally of pianos.
Mr. Reed said that the amounts had only been recently
filed, and the assignees required time to look into them.
Adjourned accordingly.
IN 111 TRIDINNICK.
_ _ _

The bankrupt was described as a stock and share dealer,
of Cornhill. This was the sitting for examination and
discharge, but the accounts bad not been filed. The
bilities are sail to be about 20,000/.
Mr. Heise appeared for the assignees.
An adjournment sine die was ordered, with protection
for a month.