The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-27 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AND THE NE-
ROME, I TROPOLITAN TRAFFIC REGULATION BILL.

(PION 011111 SPICIAL CORILSBIOADZIT.)

ROME. APELIL 20.

Daring the night of Saturday-Sunday, April
6-7, while I was absent from Rome amongst the
mountains, a very remarkable manifesto, contain-
ing the programme of the most advanced section of
Roman liberals, whose leaders have formed them-
selves into a board of direction, styled " II Centro
d'lnsurrezione," was posted up in conspicuous places
about Rome. At the risk of drawing the atten-
tion of your readers to a document with which
they may probably have already been made
acquainted, I cannot refrain from communicating
to you a very brief synopsis of its contents. At
the outset, I may observe, that there are not two
opinions here as to the vigour and ability with
which the manifesto has been drawn up. Even
" 11 Comitato Nazionale," out of whose sails the
wind is, to a great extent, taken by " II Centro
d'lnsurrezione," in its counter-manifesto, issued
April 9, while it laments the indiscretion of causing
a schism in the ranks of the liberals, is moved
to something like admiration of the generous senti-
montaavfisoedbyitanserevigorousrivaL For myself,
accustomed as I am to the somewhat milk and
Water addresses and publications of the National
Committee, I must confess to having found the
manifesto of the Centre of Insurrection very
strong and refreshing reading. At this moment,
11 a.m., the noise of the discharge of cannon, com-
bined with the distracting clang of several thousand
church and convent bells, which, having held their
tongues with difficulty for the last two days, are
now announcing—thirteen hours prematurely one
would think—with all their might and main the
joyful tidings of the resurrection, renders it no
easy matter to proceed with my writing.

Setting forth in its opening paragraphs the hard
case-of the Romans, in finding themselves placed
arbitrarily in a different category to the rest of the
Italians—a fact instanced by the rewarding of
Garibaldi on the one hand with the Grand Cordon
of the Asnunsiata, for freeing the Neapolitan pro-
vinces, and on the other, with a bullet at Aspro-
monte for attempting to free Rome—the manifesto
goes on to look for the origin of this cruel want
of logic, Iwhich it finds, naturally enough, in the
presencS of the French at Rome. " Thinking of
the Italian nation," runs the manifesto, " the
Romansiwere able, for seven years, to endure the
burden of the supporters of the temporal power ;
thinking of themselves, they could only curse their
brave allies of Magenta and Solferino. So strange
and uuhl a contradiction as that, like every-
thing ntrary to logic and so doomed to
perish, was bound to come to an end ;
and at length this abnormal state of things
had its bounds fixed by the convention of
September 15, 1864. . . . By the convention,
which now forms part of the public international
law, the right, which is no longer denied to any
people, of having the government of its choice, was
recognised by diplomacy as being inherent in the
Romans. From that day the Romans were poten-
tially masters of their own destinies."
" Actually they were slow to avail themselves of
their opportunity when, the contracting parties
having faithfully observed their pledgee, the last
French soldier left the soil of Italy. Then was the
moment for us to have risen. Then was the mo-
ment to have given the world a proof that only
main force could keep us down under the subjec-
tion of the priests."
Having shown how the Roman question entered
into an entirely new phase after the literal execu-
tion of the convention, the manifesto goes on to
accuse the national committee of imbecility in neg-
lecting to rise to the new occasion, and to make an
appeal to all such Romans as wish "to overthrow
the government of the Pope, and re-unite Rome
to Italy, as its capital," to come and shake hands
all round. " For us," runs the manifesto, " the
past does not exist, and the requirements of the
country are our future. What we propose is to
prepare for, and hasten on the moment, when
Rome, respecting in the person of the Pope
the head of the catholic religion, shall bear
down the temporal power to the ground.
To rise without the conviction of succeed-
ing would be a blunder ; not to rise when
success must be ours would be a crime." After as-
suring the Romans that simultaneously with the
insurrection of the city of Rome a rising will be
organised to take place in the provinces, the mani-
festo concludes by publishing the following letter
from Garibaldi, dated S. Fiorano, March 22, and
addressed, " Al Centro d'lnsurrezione in Roma :"

Gentlemen,—l am proud to style myself " Generale
Romano." I gratefully accept the charge which you com-
mit to me, and hereby communicate to you the names of
those Romans who will compose the centre of the emigra-
tion at Florence. I am sure that the whole of the
Roman emigrants will unite themselves to this centre,
which enjoys my whole confidence, as I have full con&

dance in you. - C. GARIBALDI.
In the subjoined letter Garibaldi invites the
Roman emigrants at Florence to organise them-
selves under his immediate direction :
My dear Sirs,—lionoured by the confidence of your
follow-citizens, the centralisation of the whole force of
the Roman emigration being an indispensable condition of
enabling you to help your brethren who are still groaning
under the government of the priests, I invite you, gentle.
men, to form yourselves into a " Centro del Emigrations
Roman.," in order to act under my immediate direction,
in accordance with the instructions which you will re-
ceive. I have full confidence in you. Re good enough to
explain theme my wishes to your fellow emigrants.

0: GARIBALDI.

These documents, which were published ten
days since by the Opiteione of Florence, have, it
cannot be denied, a business-like look about them,
but nevertheless there seems little or no probability
of an immediate outbreak. With Garibaldi for
its animating spirit, and union with Italy and con-
stitutional monarchy for its political watchwords,
the Centro d'lnsurrezione is gaining ground every
day. That Garibaldi, and the triumvir Montmchi,
with the great majority of the republicans of 1849,
whom the recurrence of eighteen years of reac-
tionary government has made converts to mo-
narchical principles, as at any rate the best com-
promise, should give their support to the " Centro
d'lnsurrezione" seems the best augury of success.
Martini alone holds himself aloof from the concern.

818 MAJISTY " CALLIMG " • MINISTER TO A
PARIKH thicami.—At • meeting of the Kincardine O'Neil
Presbytery the other day, a call was laid on the table
from the parish of Cathie to the Rev. Mr. Taylor, Mon-
trone. Amongst the signatures to the call was that of Dr.
Robertson, who had been instructed to subscribe the
document on behalf of the Queen. The call was sustained.
—Edinburgh Courant.
THE BOMBAY MAIL. —Stria, APRIL 26. —The
Babette, from Bombay April 14, arrived at 3 p.m. today.

A special Court of Common Council was held
yesterday, at Guildhall, at which the Loin XATOR pre-
sided. for the purpose of receiving a report from the
joint Police, and Lae r; Parliamentary, aid City Courts
Committees reference to the Traffic Regulation *ill for
the metropolis, at present before the Rouse of Commons,
and also the draft of a petition to parliament against the
measure, and praying that the Corporation of Leedom
might be allowed, if seemeary, to appear by counsel awl
to give evidence against certain clauses contained in the
proposed bill_

- Alderman Rosen in moving that the report be agreed to
expressed his opinion that many of the clauses in the bill
were prepared by persons who evidently were entirely
ignorant of the nature and extent of the commerce of the
City of London, and believed that if the one prohibiting
the delivery of maks between the hours of ten in the morn
lug and six o'clock in the evening ever became law, the
trade in wine, beer, sugar, and several other articles would
be at once entirely put a stop to. (Haar, hear.) The idea
also of being compelled to apply to the police for permis-
sion to do certain things that were absolutely necessary
for carrying on the commerce of the City appeared to
him to be so monstrous and so contrary to all the principles
of freedom that were entertained by 'ftglishmen, that he
thought it was the duty of everyone to endeavour to
prevent such a principle from being carried out. (Hear,
The magistrates were also to be deprived of all
control ; and so far as the trade of the City of London wee
concerned he would only say that it appeared to him that
if this measure ever became law the sooner every trader
got out of the City the better. He hoped, however, that
they should be able, by the resistance they were about to
offer, **peeves* this arrativos aftpt to destroy the
commerce of the City of London from being carried into
effect. (Hear, hear.)
Alderman J. C. LAWRENCE, in seconding the motion,
said that, instead of the bill being entitled A Bill to regu-
late the Traffic of the Metropolis, it would be more pro-
perly described as one having for its object the nipples.
lion of the trade of the City of London. The evidence
that had been given by Sir Richard Mayne before the com-
mittee of the House of Lords, and upon which evidence
I the bill seemed to have been principally founded, was of
the most extraordinary character; and in answer to one of
the questions that were put to him he gravely expressed
his opinion that the traffic in front of the Mansion-house
and through the Poultry was nut greater than Ilig.anri
other parts of the metropolis. (A laugh.) With
to the clause in the bill requiring the delivery of
certain heavy articles before tea o'clock in the
morning, he should like to know what would be the
consequence if this was carried out, when thousands of
empty vehicles would be leaving the City after ten o'clock,
and would meet the stream of trafffc which poured into it
at that hoar from all directions, and whether the most
terrible blocks and stoppages would not necessarily be
created by such a state of things? (Hear, hear.) Sir
Richard Mayne admitted that the object he sought to
attain was to reduce the number of vehicles coming
into the City, and at the same time also said that if the
measure weal parried in its present shape it would give
the Commissioner of Police the power to make regula-
tions to any amount of stringency that he might consider
necessary. He then adverted to the proposition of Sir
Richard Mayne, that housekeepers should leave their
coal cellar, open, in order that coals might be delivered
during the night, and be asked what sort of security the
public would have against robbery, or against the coal
merchant supplying twentydlve hundredweight of coals
for a ton. (Laughter.) The effect of these and other
similar regulations would be that the trade of London
would be carried on by night instead of by day ; and he
said he agreed with Alderman Rom in the opinion that
the proposed measure bad been framed by those who were
entirely ignorant of the character of the trade and com-
merce of the City of London. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. M'Osoitos said that be had taken great interest is
the question of the regulation of the traffic of the City of
London, and could have wished that the bill brought for-
ward by the corporation had been carried into effect. The
Foment measure was, however, so different from the one
be referred to, and was so stringent, and so utterly incon-
sistent with the notions that were entertained by all preo-
tical men as to what should be done, that he felt com-
pelled to oppose it, end to express his belief that if such a
measure was permitted to become law, it would tend to
entirely destroy the trade of the City of London. He
might add that there was not a single large town in Beg-
land where each extraordinary powers were gives to the
police as were proposed to be entrusted to them by this
measure. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Dr JERSEY, the chairman of the Commissioners of
Sewers, also spoke against the bill, and said that if it was
to be passed in its present shape a responsibility of a very
different character would be thrown upon the commission,
and they would, to a certain extent, be placed under the
control of the police, and the most extraordinary anoma-
lies would arise.

lir. C. J. COCKERELL expressed his surprise that the
House of Lords, who could not know anything of the sub-
ject, should have taken upon themselves to initiate a bill
for regulating the trail° of the City of London. tHear,
hear.) The effect of the measure in its present shape
would be to place the trade and commerce of the City of
London in the power of the Commissioner of Police, and
be could state that so far as the propped regulation for
the delivery of teals was concerned, if it was carried
out, the public would have to pay at least half•a-crown a
ton more for this article.

Alderman SALOMONS expressed his opinion that a more
extraordinary and ill-conditioned bill than the one in
question had never been introduced into parliament. He
had a great reepeet for the police, but he considered it a
meet monstrous thing that they should be entrusted with
such powers as were proposed to be given to them by this
measure.
Mr. MEDWIN also supported the report.

Mr. BEDFORD caused a good deal of laughter by read-
ing some of the clauses of the proposed measure. and said
that by one of them any person who assumed the clothes
of an " authorised " shoe-black was to be liable to a pe-
nalty of forty shillings. Also, if two persona made a bet
in the street • constable was justified in apprehending
them, and they were liable to • penalty of forty shillings.
If, therefore, it should happen that Lord Derby, just be-
fore the Derby or any other great race, were to meet an-
other noble lord and offer him three to one spinet • par-
ticular hone, • policeman would be justified in laying
hold of them both and dragging them off to the station-
house. (Laughter.) He characterised the measure as
being one of altogether an absurd and monstrous descrip-
tion, and said be !toped they should succeed in preventing
it from being pained into law.
The motion for agree to the report was then put and
carried unanimously, and the necessary arrangements
were made for at ono. presenting • petition on behalf of
the corporation against the second reading of the bill.
The court then adjourned.

On Thursday a conservative dinner took place
at Halesworth to celebrate the return of Mr. F. S. Corrance
for East Suffolk. About three hundred gentlemen were
present, and the chair was taken by Mr. H. A. S. Bence,
of Thorington.liall. In responding to the toast of his
health, the Hon. J. M. Henniker. Major, M.P., referred to
the government Reform Bill, to which he saw, he said,
many objections ; but he thought all who desired a satis-
factory settlement of the question were bound to give way
to some extent. He expressed his approval of the personal
ratepaying and residential clauses. Mr. Corrance, M.P.,
followed, expressing a general approval of the government
measure, but he claimed for the counties a larger share in
the representation than they at present enjoyed. Lord
Augustus Hervey, one of the members for %t est Suffolk,
and Mr. E. Greene, the conservative member for Bury St.
Edmunds, were also present, and the latter said he be-
lieved that reform had come not from below but from
above. He strongly objected to a hard line, and would
rather vote for household suffrage pure and simple than •
IL line.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORRB.—The mom-
bete of this board met yesterday, Sir J. Thwaites presid-
ing. Mr. Pugh, the member for Camberwell, introduced a
deputation from that pariah to present a memorial praying
the board to withdraw the Metropolis Improvement Rate
Bill, now before parliament. Mr. Potter spoke at some
considerable length, urging the adoption of the memorial,
and endeavoured to point out that local taxation had
reached its limit. and that it was impossible for their dis-
trict to bear as increase of 44d. in the pound, which the
act would impose, also that all moneys raised locally
should be so spent. After a few words from Mr.
L. Taylor, in favour of the memorial, the Chair-
man explained some evidence which be had given be-
fore a select committee of the House of Commons, in
which he was reported to have said that " local taxation
had reached its limits." This was reported without any of
the surrounding explanations, which would have given •
very different complexion to such • statement. The
whole argument of Mr. Potter seemed to tend to the abo-
lition of the powers of the board to tax the metropolis,
and in favour of locally taxing the people and disbursing
the money. If that project were carried out, what would
become of all the great improvements of the metropolis
Could such works as the Thames Embankment be carried
out? Or, if so, would it be fair to charge the whole ex-
pense to the parishes of the Strand end Westminster?
There were many other instances which be could give
where great public improvements were made which it
would be quite impossible for the parishes in which they
were made to bear the expense, and he thought that if
the memorial should be complied with it would aim at
doing away with all public improvements. After some
discussion, which eventually became of a personal nature,
the memorial was referred to the Works Committee, and
the deputation withdrew.

THE FENIAN TRIALS.

DUBLIN, FRIDAT NIGHT.
The trial of Thomair Burke, leader of the Tip-
perary Fenians, and of Patrick Doran, who took
part in the attack on the Stepaside police barracks,
was proceeded with to-day. After the opening
statement of the Attorney-General, Patrick
Keogh, a tailor, was examined, and gave evidence
of the rising at Tallaght, Patrick Condon, alias God-
frey Massey, the principal informer, detailed all the
plans of the conspirators, and identified Burke as
having taken part in some of the meetings at which
the intended insurrection was discussed. Massey was
appointed to a high command in the Fenian army by
Col. O'Kelly, who after the deposition of Stephens
was appointed commander-in-chief. Massey stated
that he had been a colonel in the Confederate
army, and had & commission in the English land
transport corps. Another informer named Corydon
also a Confederate officer, was examined. It was
this individual whose information led to the arrest
of Massey, and put the authorities on the alert with
respect to the intended raid on Chester. At the
conclusion of his direct evidence the further hearing
of the case was adjourned.

The Norwich Working Men's Oonserrative Asso-
ciation bold a demonstration on Thursday evening In St.
Andrew's-hall. The *hair was noospied by Sir S. Bic-
MOLD. who was aapparnal by Si, W. Bane, I[.P., the
Hon. T. He Oro. ILP., Mr. C. H. Bead, M.P., Mr. K.
Howse M.P., Mime! nun, Mr. W. B. Fernand, Major
Walpole, &c.

THE REPRESENTATION OF 11111 PIIOPIJL—At •
special meetiog of the Toin Council of Birmingham yes-
terday, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Hawke*, a reso-
lution was passed to the effect that a petition be we-
welted to parliament praying that in the bill now before
it a clause may be inserted enacting that hereafter Bir-
mingham shall have additional representatives.

- -
Reronit MEETING AT DERBY.—On Thursday
evening apaesting was held in the Corn Bachanip,
Derby, under the auspices of the Derby branch of the
Reform League, to consider the present position of the
government Reform BilL Long before the time for the
commencement of the prooengs the immense ban
was crowded with working men, and throughout the
evening the demonstration was of a moat enthusiastic
character. The deputation were Professor Rodgers (Ox-
ford University), Mr. J. Nuttall and Mr. Wright (Bir-
mingham). One resolution was as follows :—" That
this meeting tenders to the Right Hon. William
Ewart Gladstone its sympathy under the recent trying
defection of a portion of the liberal party, and hereby
records its senae of gratitude for the great services ren-
dered by Mr. Gladstone during the last two years in
the cause of reform, and would also venture to ask that
he, as the leader of the reel liberals both in and out of
parliament, would still continue to guide the counsels of
reformers in the House of Commons. That this resolution
be "irked by the chairman, and forwarded by him to Mr.
Gladstone on behalf of this meeting." The proceedings
were brought to a close with cheers for Mr. Gladstone and
groans for Mr. Bass.
THE ELECTORS OF BOSTON AND MR. PARRY.
At a meeting of the committee of the Boston branch
of the London Reform League, held on Tuesday evening,
the following resolution on the conduct of Mr. Parry the
liberal member for the borough, in voting against Mr.
Gladstone in the recent division on the Reform Bill, was
unanimously passed :—" That this meeting desires to ex-
pire- in unqaalified terms its disapproval of the conduct
of Mr. Parry, the liberal member f. r the borough, and
considers that, by his uniting with the tories and sham-
liberals to defeat the honest endeavours of Mr. Gladstone
to make the present bill more just and acceptable, he has
forfeited all claims to our confidence in him as a liberal
representetive."

EDl:warms IN Irmia.—Yesterday afternoon the
ninth annual meeting of the Christian Vernacular Edu-
cation Society for India was held at Willie's Rooms. Mr.
J. C. Colquhoun presided, and there were present the
Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., the Rev. Canon Auriol, Dr.
Davis, &e. The Rev. J. W. Titoomb read the report,
which stated that the society bad four training colleges in
active operation, which there was every reason to hope
would henceforth become centres from which Christian
vernacular education would receive a new impulse.
The efforts they had made to raise the standard
of secular education in the native heathen schools,
and to introduce Christian instruction into them, was
carried forward with increasing seal and vigour. The
government still continued their grants in aid towards
them. 72 schools, containing 4,000 boys, were now under
the charge of the society's native Christian teachers. The
publication work of the society had already been actively
carried on, educational works having beet lased in fourteen
at the rate of 1,200 copies a day. The society
tguigieling. fully one-third to the supply of Christian
literature in India. The receipts during the pest year
amounted to 6,345/. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P.,
moved the adoption of the report. Dr. Duff, who might
be truly called " the apostle of India," had borne strong
testimony to the value of the society's operations, and that
alone ought to entitle it to the liberal support of the
public. He believed that no man was more convinced than
the present Governor-General of the necessity of promoting
education amongst the masses of the population throughout
the whole of India. Other addresses were made and reso-
lutions carried in furtherance of the society's objects.
BISHOP or LONDON'S FCND.—The annual service
of this fund will be held under the dome of St. Paul's Ca-
thedral on Sunday, May 5, at seven pin. The sermon will
be preached by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon,
and a special choir is we understand, being trained for the
occasion. A pastoral from the Bishop of London will be
read, end collections made in most of the churches of the
diocese on Rogation Sunday. On the following day,
Monday, May 27, there will be a celebration of the Holy
Communion at Bt. James's Piccadilly, at 12 o'clock, when
the bishop will deliver an iiddress.
THR PROSECUTION OF THIS ST. ALBAN'S CLISROY.--
Formal service of the citation in the case of the Bishop of
London v. the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, M.A., incumbent
of the district church of St. Alban, Holborn, has at length
been made, the legal document having been served upon
the reverend gentleman while he was hearing "confes-
sion." Although the Bishop of London's name stands in
the proceedings as the nominal prosecutor the case is
really that of the " Church Association," a society estab-
lished some time since for the purpose of resisting the
spread of Romanies doctrines and practices in the
church. Mr. J. Murray Dale will be the solicitor, and
Dr. A. J Stephens, the leading counsel for the prosecu-
tion. The English Church Union will conduct the de-
fence, Sir R. J. Philliuiore being leading counsel.

Fara. COLLISION. —The weather underwent a
considerable change off the Northumberland coast on Wed-
nesday night, the wind getting round to the N.M., and
hlowing a gale. Between 9 and 10 o'clock a screw hopper,
I No. 1, belonging to the River Tyne Commissioners, ran
into a stesnatug, the Vigilant, off the harbour mouth, and
sank her in a few minutes. All hands Jumped from the
tug into the hopper, but the master. William Ramsbaw,
and the vessel sank with him. He has left a widow and
five children. The rough sea has completely Molten the
tug up, and her wreck is scattered along the shore.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT CLIPToN St'NPENNION-
BIUI*GE.—On Thursday evening, shortly after 6 o'clock, •
lad named William Miles. 13 years of age, who is engaged
as • ticket-collector on the Clifton side of the Suspension-
bridge, which spans the Avon and connects the counties
of Gloucester and Somerset, left his post and got on to
the parapet at the side of the bridge for the purpose of
Gathering prime of the wild flowers which abound in that
locality. While so engaged be slipped and fell over the
steep declivity of St. Vincent's rocks. His fall was im-
peded by the ivy, but when rescued and Conveyed to the
General Hospital it was found that he had sustained a
compound fracture of the skull, besides other serious in-
juries. On inquiry at the hospital last evening it was
■fated that the boy was still alive, but that he was in a
very precarious state.

LITERARY ACTIVITY IN AMERICA.—The literary
acthity in this country at the prevent time is remarkable.
We saw, the other day, in the private office of one of our
prominent book publisher., three towering piles of manu-
script volumes which bad been forwarded to the house in
the course of a fortnight When it is considered that we
have more than twenty publishing houses of prominence
in this city, and that each of them could probably show a
harvest of equal magnitude, the Unmet.* amount of book-
writing that is done may he partially estimated. But
only partially, for Boston, Philadelphia. Hartford, and
other cities, possess publishing houses that rival those of
New York, and all of them doubtless have constantly ac-
cumulating piles of manuscript seeking for publication. Of
course, not one in • score of the books offend are pub-
lished, or can be published. This is bard on the poor
writers, but were it otherwise it would be banter still on
the poor readers. We may remark, also, that the activity
of magazine writers is no ler remarkable than that of
book writers. We are informed by the editor of one of
our popular magazines that he receives from 2110 to :MO
contributions every month, while the limits of his maga.
rine prevent him using more than a dozen out of the
whole. We are almost afraid to sawhen we consider
what may be the result of our remarky--that the magazine
editor referred to complains of the real scarcity of good
poem. and stories. Most that are gent him are, in his
opinion, atrociously bad—though of course their authors
would not agree in this judgment. But we suspect he is
right.—lfew York Tires, April 10.