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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20.

THE natural impiety Of mortals resents a clap
of thunder in a serene sky as an unwarrantable
disturbance of the laws of nature. A Reform
Bill in the midst of political quiet and social
peace is a phenomenon quite as perplexing to Par-
liamentary meteorologists. At the first moment
no one is angry or afraid ; the heavens divide,
and the bolt falls somewhere out of harm's way,
and the world jogs on as if nothing had hap-
pened. But a vague feeling of dissatisfaction re-
-1.11111113 behind. Timid people dislike being
startled ; and prophetic people who are always
seeking after signs are indignant that it should
have conic to nothing, while the men of science
simply consign it to their note-hook. The
new Reform Bill is a case in kind. Mouldy
Whigs and contraband Liberals of all sorts
compire with honest Tories in protesting against it
under their breath, and at the same time profess-
big to treat it as a matter of course, and of no
importance. It is an insignificant apology for a
Bill, they say ; it is • revolutionary Bill ; it is a
measure which nobody wants ; it is a measure
which Lan no longer be delayed ; now is the time
for such a Bill, when there is no agitation or pres-
sure from without ; now is the moat unreasonable
Moment for such a Bill, when the country is ab-
sorbed in the Budget and the Treaty, in national
defences and the independence of Savoy; when all
is indifference and apathy at bums, danger and
excitement abroad. All them contending antipa-
thies, all these secret or avowed dislikes, resolve
themselves into a moody state of sulks, and lei
this agreeable frame of mind the House of Corn-
-111(4111 sat down last evening to lend • distracted
and utoympathising ear to the second reading of
the Behan' Bill. The stillness and patience of
the non-electors, of which we have heard so much,
were faithfully represented on those thinly popu-
lated benches, and in the vacant air of dulness and
resignatem which reigned supreme. It was almost
a mercy at the dinner hour that some majlenst gerribk
did nut rise to move that the House be counted,
fur after Mr. DISRAELI had spoken it was difficult
for • casual strayer to imagine that • measure
from which the nowt frightful consequences had
been predicted almost every morning fur the last
fortnight was actually passing the House. It was
not a year ago that Mr. DISRAELI proposed the m-
ound reading of his Reform Bill ; and foreign
affairs were at least as critical then as they are
now. The cliam,e from curiosity to seeming in-
difference is easily explained. A Tory Beton'
Bill was a lotus ',alum, and when it all-eared in
all its deformity Lord Joins Roseau boldly and
simply proposed, in spite of its noble birth, to
put it out of its misery, and, like Mr. sl.owly
with the infalitute treatise, to say DO more about it.
But this year we have a Reform Bill which every
one expected; prei-enti without a struggle, and iii
the fair proportions of regular growth ; and thus

it is that the offspring excites a very moderate
interest in the immediate neighbourhood, and
although it is grumbled, and cried, and wrangled
over by the rival nurses, comes to its teething
almost unawares. Last year the Tory Reform

Bill was felt by the popular instinct to
Ibe a supreme attempt at legerdemain,
to re-adjust the Whig balance of 1832.
The fantastic apparatus puzzled without sa-
tisfying public expectation, and in the House
itself, when the first sensation of surprise
was exhausted, the Bill and its ingenious author
were shelved together. It was not to be expected
that a Reform Bill brought in by a Liberal
Government after so many false Marts; would be • very
exciting or novel proceeding. The House of Com-
mons is resigned to Reform ; and it is precisely
ihisattitude of blandresignation, without a symptom
of sustaining faith or even of suppressed enthu-
siasm on any side, that should teach all true
Reformers how much Reform is wanted there.
Among the supporters of the Bill on the Liberal
aide who justly complain of its shortcomings, some
imperfect consciousness of the justice of a cause
simper than clamour, more persistentthan agitation,
which they are commissioned to represent, is
frankly expressed here and there; but for the
most part the men who have been loud on the
hustinp for Reform seem to suffer rather than
support it when it assumes the dreadful aspect of
a Bill. On the Tory side the war trumpet is
muffled, if not mute. Mr. Dumater objects, it is
true, to every single provision of the Bill, to all
its principles and all its details, but be declines to
oppose the second reading, and is by no means
prepared to take it to pieces in committee. After
his experience on the Budget, he wraps himself up
in the mantle of the augur and awaits the result
of • doubled borough franchise, of the
exhaustion of coal, and of French wines.
The vanity of authorship is always pardonable, if
not absolutely worthy of respect ; and when the
author of the Tory Reform Bill recapitulates those
admirably subtle processes of redistribution which
succeeded only in redistributing the offices of the
Government, we cannot refuse him a certain indul-
gent sympathy. But whether Mr. DISZAILI is
framing a Reform Bill of his own or dissecting a
rival's, he is nothing, if not ingenious. His first re-
mark on this year's innocent is that it is so
"medieval " in character. It contemplates
only land or bricks and mortar as properly
qualifications, and takes no notice at all
of " position" and "intelligence," of lodgers
and other learned pundits. This may be medievel,
but it is not so Chinese ea some qualifications we
remember to have met. Lord Sraisticy's apology
for the Bill last year was that it was not the best
that could be framed, but the best that could
park Unfortunately this saving grace was want-
ing in the hour of need. Mr. DISHAIKLI believes
that hie "fancy franchises" were killed by allitera-
tion ; the truth is, his fancy franchises were
condemned beforehand, so far at least as educa-
tional tests or privileges were concerned, and the
common sense of the unenfranchised classes
has always demanded that simplicity in a
Reform Bill which Mr. Dteassu so cha-
racteristically despises. Mr. DISRAELI is all
for the principle of selection and variety ;
he abhors what is numerical, homogeneous, and
intelligible, and calls it " medilevaL" When he
advances the claims of lodgers he is thinking of a
class of educated men "entitled by position and
" intelligence to vote." When he deprecates the
new power about to be given to the working
classes he represents them as a highly "organised"
body, always ready to "strike" against every other
ceder in the community, and with no stake in the
country which their labour enriches and sustains.
He never remembers any "organization"among the
middle classes except the notorious example of the
Anti-Corn Law League. He reminds the House
that there are skilled artisans in the country as
well as in town—gardeners, shepherds, woodmen,
and ploughboys, who are not only on a par with
the intelligent and educated mechanics in towns,
but have the superior qualification of not
being " organised " like their brethren in cities
and boroughs. The Tory Reform Bill would
have given us an elaborately diversified electoral
body : in Lord Joins Rinatee's measure there is
• terrible monotony, though " identity" of suffrage
is wanting. The great merit of Mr. Dmaatu's
measure was that it was impossible to tell what
sort of electors it would create, whereas Lord JOHN
proposes to add no less than 217,000 persons, all
drawn from the same class, toexisting constituencies.
To feel the full force of Mr. DINIMUJI'M apprehen-
sions we have only to conclude that this vast
homogeneous body of our fellow-subjects are una-
nimously bent upon the subversion of all existing
institutions. Their intelligence and information
are not denied, but that is why we should hesi-
tate to give them • "preponderance." It is evi-
dent that this objection would apply to any
number of the same necessarily large class, how-
ever intelligent or well-educated, and that the
artisan clam will be just as unfit for the
suffrage after fifty years of national education and
• century of Mechanics' Institutes as they were
twenty years ago. We ►re at a loss to conceive to
what conclusion this anti-numerical theory would
lead a country with a working population such
as ours. It would certainly not conduce to
the safety of the State, or to the peace and har-
mony of society.

The equating' ordered to assemble at Spitheed
for the purpose of convoying him Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales strum the Atlantic, on his visit to rimoda, will
onmist of the HMV, 91, .crew, 600-bor■e power, Captain
Geom. H. Seymour, who will hoist his hood pendant am
commodore of the squodrou ; the Ariadne, 26, screw, 000.
Mine power, Captain E W. Vansittirt ; the Flyingfisli, 8,
"crew, affelciese power, Commander Charles W. Hope ;
and the royal paddle yacht Osborne, 430.1i0ne power,
noseiael, Maaterireanamader Ileums 14. K. Bower. Hia
royal highness will take him posesio out sod home in the
Hem., one of the finest 91. gun ships in her Majesty's navy.
The Osborne will be retained for titmice' on the coasts and
riven of Cams& during tit." May .4 his royal highness in
Uri colcoy.

The Times thinks it would be a matter of regret
if the Prince of Waled, satisfied with the homage of the
thinedima, steaM neglect to visit the Republic which Dow
play, no groat a part in the world. A journey through the
United Reeks and some emaciation with the people would
not be let labour. Of a kind and courteous reception the
am of tiseen Victoria may be very sure. "The Prism of
Wider alight ilml both instruction and recreation in a visit
to the Atlantic cities, whether it be New York is all its
ambitions and spoil:mu splendour or ite more quiet rivals.
note is much to be learnt from a few weeks of snob
travel more than a royal personage may ever afterwards
have an opportunity of learning. this who is called to much
high destinies, and who will have each oppertunities of
directing the taste, of his onuntrynien, may adventageemly
study the progrem in the art, of life by a people thrown, as
it acre but yesterday, on the shores of a new continent, a
progress out leis wonderful than their conunesial pros.
perity. If the Prince of Wales should further visit the
President of the United *aim at Washington, the courtesy
will, we feel sure, be appreciated, arid tend to draw chimer
the hoods which unite the two countries."

It is Stlitt4 that the export duty upon rage which
the Emperor Napoleon proposes to substitute for the abet). I.
lute prohibition hitherto in (urea will amount to about 100
per cent. on the price of commota nip, sad 50 per cent. on
tide price of the Lett qualit).

ebe Court.
OSBORNE, MAWS 19.
The Queen, Prince Consort, and tie Royal
Family walked out this morning.
Prince and Princess Leiningen have left Osborne.
A deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from
the United Kingdom Alliance and several tear ammo-
dation., in respect to the government for extend-
im; wine licenses to refreshment atom had an interview
with the right hon. gentleman yesterday, at bin official
residence in Downingetreet. The deputation was intro-
duced by Sir Michael Seymour, M.P. for Davenport, and
Mr. Joseph Crook, M.P. for Bohai.
Mr. Thompson, M.P., Chairman et the Hallway Associa-
tion, and Mr. Buller, counsel, and Mr. Leeman, solicitor,
had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson and the Bight Hon. W. Hutt, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

KdePut:;tl;ll from the Board of Works for the Poplar
District, consisting of Mr. Edward Coleman, Mr. Thomas H.
Bwiften, Mr. Thomas Tayler (members of the board), Mr.
Barn. Bitching Ellison, Dr. Thomas Anaell (medical officers
of health), and Mr. Charles C. Ceely (clerlt to the board),
attended yesterday at the Home-office, in support of a me-
morial from that board for such alterations in the Nuisances
Removal Acta, UM, as would secure the more speedy and
effectual suppression of nuisances injurious to the public
health. The deputation was introduced by Mr. A. S.
Ayrt.on, M.P.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to
the governors of Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Ceylon,
Hong Kong, Malta, Labium, Gibraltar, and to the Lord
High Commisaioner of the lonian Wanda.

The Duchess of Inverness gave • a grand enter-
tainment last evening, at her apartments in Kensington
Palace, to their Royal Highsemes the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary and his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge. The following were invited to meet their royal
highnesses :—His Excellency the Austrian Minister, the
Duchess of Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Londonderry, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Fail of
Clarendon, Count Dornburg, Countess Reventlow, Dr.
Quin, Mr. George Russell, kc. Colonel Tyrwhitt and
Colonel Home Purvee were in waiting on their royal high-
nesses. later in the evening the Duchess of Inverness
received a small circle.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish leave Heater Hall to• Jay for Holton Abbey for
a few dam when hie 'nos will leave for Chataworth, on
hie way to Limon Castle, county Waterford.

The Duke of Montrose has returned to Be*rave-
square from Stoke-Edith Park, the seat of lady Emily
Foley, where the noble duke has been recruiting his
strength after his severe illness.

The Marquis of Hartington has returned to De-
vonshire House from visiting the Earl of Wilton at Egerton
Lodge, Melton Mowbray.

The Earl and Countess of Portarlington have
arrived in town. His lordship has taken a residence in
Grafton-street for the season.
The Earl of Lichfield has bought a mansion in
Doverstreet, late the residence of Lord &delay.
Viscount St. Vincent met with a serious accident
by the bunting of his gun while oat rabbit shooting at
Gaimersham Park, which has severely lacerated his left
hand. Hie lordship is projressing favourably.
Viscount Dungannon will return to town on
Thursday from Brynkinalt, Denbigh.

Viscount Gage has left Whitehall for Scotland
for s few weeks' salmon fishin.

Lady EICIIO was safely delivered of a sou yester-
day, at her reeidence in St. James's-place. Her ladyship
and infant are pmireesing favourably.

The four peers who voted last evening for the
ballot were, Lords Helper, Llanover, Viscount Enfield, and
Lord Teynharn. The noes were the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and Lord Campbell (Chancellor) ; Dukes Newcastle
and Somerset ; Marquis Saliabury ; Earls Amherst, Carew -
von,Cathcart, De La Warr, Derby, Hardwicke,Malmesbury,
and Bt. Klemm ; Wintou (E. Eglinton) ; Viscount Evers.
ley; Bishops Carlisle end Chichester; Lords Avelaml,
Chelmsford, Churchill, Clifton (E. Darnley), Colchester,
Denman, Digby, Elwry, Egerton, Lyveden, Monteagle
of Brandon, ()versions, Mallows, Soanerhill (IL Clanri•
cards), Sundridge (Duke of Argyll), Talbot de Malahide,
Templemore, Trttro, Wensleydale, Wynford. Tellers—
Marquis of Bath and Lord Foley.

The Kentish Guatte says :—" The interesting
ceremony of laying the foundation stone of • Tartish bath
took place ■t Bifroes, Patiirbourne, on Saturday Inst. The
ceremony was performed by the Dowager Marchioness
Conynghani, in the presence of Lady Churchill, Dr. Steven-
son, Mn. cud Mies Stevenson, and the Rev. St. lager
Aldwortb. This being over, Dr. Stevenson delivered •
suitable rod impressive inaugural address, invoking God's
blessing upon the object in view—rastaration of health to
all who from bodily ailments shall be privileged to partici-
pate in it. benefits. We understand this is the first private
improved Turkish bath that has been erected in England,
although several public con have been built in Dublin,
Bray, and St. Ann's, in Ireland, by Dr. Barter, M.D.,
under whose able management thousands of persons have
derived unspeakable benefit."

It is understood that the Bankruptcy Bill of the
Attorney-Ocean' will contain • provision to defeat the
practice of English debtors eaaping from their creditors by
• meet to the Scotch Courts. It will also provide that in
cases of private liquidation the assent must be obtained of
three.fourtha of the creditors, not merely in value, but also
in number. The bill is expected to be in the hands of the
public in the course of ► few days.

Malls. limo'mini brought a fortnight's' en-
pgernent at Dublin to a close on Saturday evening by ap-
pearing for her own benefit in the opera of Martha. She
had for some days prior been labouring under a severe cold,
and when the curtain rose she mine forward and mid
• Kind friends! This may be the last time that I will emir
ep ear before you. lam very ill, indeed ; but I have tried
to come here to see you again. I can only sing very badly.
You have been always very good to me ; will you pardon
soy faults to-night! I shall do my beet."

DEATH OF MEX. JAMMU/N.—We (Times) record
with much regret the death, after • few days' illness, of
Mrs. Jamieson, an authoress whose literary works were of •
high clam in art and modal science sad who has left friends,
not only in her own country, but in almost every capital in
, lament her lass. Item Jameson was the
daughtereldesteldeste to
of Mr. Murphy, pantee in ordinary to the Prin-
ce. Charlotte, a well-known artist in the early part of the
present century. She married Mr. Robert, Jameem, the
late Vice-Chancellor of f...nada., whom she survived az
years Her literary labours commenced with the "Diary of
an Fanny." in ISM followed by various vultures on venom
subject. of biography sad art. Her principal and most popular
publication. were her " Characteristics of Women," chiefly
studies from Shakepere ; " Visits and Sketches at Home
and Abroad;" " Winter Studies and Summer Rambler in
Canada -" the latter work she regarded as peculiarly •
record of her own social views and convictions. In Ida
she published the " Hand-Book to the Public Galleries of
Art in and near London," which we. the first of a series of
artistic works of subsequent production -- viz. au " Sacred
and Legendary Art," Legends of the Monastic Orden,""
Legends of the Madonna," kc. One of her last publics.
time was a revised and enlarged edition of sr Memoirs Of
the Early Italian Painters," published by Mr. Murray. Rep
two years past she had been engaged on • laborious and
elaborately illustrated work, a.nuounoed by Meas.. Tang,
man, and nearly completed, the "History of our Lead
and of his Precuram' SC John the Baptist, with
the Personages and Typical Subjects .4 the Old
Testament ae represented in Christian Art." la the
completion of this labour she had revisited Italy and
passed several months in Rome and other continental cities.
As as art-critic, Mrs. Jameson was almost unrivalled. She
appreciated and expowoled not suly technical excellence,
but the inward meaning of works of art; the Median.
they bear to the history of art itself, and the kidney of
nations among whom they were created. But her Intel-
biettud excellence extended in other and nobler direction.—
in a deep interest in all social and moral questions, as
evidenced in her printed lectures on " Sisters of
Charity at Home and Abroad" and the "Communion
of Labour," prefaced by an earnest and elssinent intro-
duction. In this late and small volume she considers the
practical side of English life- treating of labour, of charity,
of education, of the condition of her own sex, of our
criminal laws and reformatory institutions. At the
meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social
Science at Bradford in October lea she attended the
sections with the deepest interest and attention, and any
brief observations she made were received with marked
respect. Mrs. Jameson 's illuesn was of a few days duration
only. After • visit to the Reeding Room of the British
Museum she complained of • cold, and in two or three days
• severe attack of Immehitis succeeded, from the effects et
which she never rallied, expiring on the evening of atria-
day, the 17th hat.
Tors LATE COMITIIIII GRAirrus.r.—Mr. John
Lessoiame write. In the Jimmie! des Mora: " A lady still
yoang,and is whore character the most endearing onealities
were united with solid worth, the Countess Gretna., has
just died at NOW% abler a long Shims, tended by her
mother, her soy, and her husband. They are, without
doubt, the greatest enSerars, but they are not alone in
their grief. The Coustals Granville Marge on the continent
a numerous family, of which she was the soul and the
centre. She Laves everywhere, and most of all in France
where she was born, many friend., who will appreciate
and share the regrets which we have here been permitted to
expenses."

ING
LATEST INTELLIGigaIk.

AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT.
VIENNA, 'Wes 19.

Austria, considering the annexation of Centel
Italy to Piedmont as a flagrant violation of the
treaty of Zurich, which formally reserved the rights
of the deposed princes, has resolved to adjourn the
renewal of official relations with the court of Turin.
In consequent,e of this resolve, Baron de Brenier,
who was to fulfil the function of representative of
Austria at Turin, hsa returned to his former post
at Athens.

NICK

The Oceeette de Nice of the 16th says :—" The
municipality of this city, in its sitting of yester-
day, resolved to send to King Victor Emmanuel
IL an address, praying him not to consent to the
cession or exchange of the city and county of
Nice ; or at least, if it be necessary to give satis-
faction to France, to act in such a way as to cause
the said city and county to be neutralised, under
the sovereignty of the House of Savoy, and in
conformity with the conditions which may be
settled by the Great Powers to which belong the
right, and on which the duty falls of watching
over the maintenance of the peace and balance of
power in Europe. Count H. Renaud de Falicon;
Chevalier H. Verani Masin do Chateauneuf, Dr.
Camous, all municipal councillors, and Chevalier
Andre d'Andreis have been appointed a deputation
to present this address to his Majesty."

The /Mints of to-clay publishes the following
despatch from Marseilles :
" Fresh scenes of violence have taken place at
Nice. The editor of the Avenir was set upon and
beaten, but rescued by some Frenchmen. The
authorities remained pensive. A French squadron
was expected. On the other hand the Italians have
sent a deputation to Turin to demand that the city
be made free rather than French."

NAPLES.
NAPLES (viLGeeoe), IdAscs.l7.
Letters from the frontier announce increased
agitation.
A popular manifestation has taken place at Atri ;
banners were displayed bearing the words " Victor
Immanuel for ever !" The police checked the re-
volt ; eighty individuals who were compromised
fled over the frontier.