The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-09 00:00:00

SATURDAY vvriv-qTG, MARCH 9, 1867;

OUR CONTEMPOttAIi,J:

(THIS DAY.)

The Fenian proceedings, and the question dis-
cussed in parliament last night of the employment of the
volunteers in the suppression of civil tumults, are the
leading topics of comment in to•day's papers. The Times,
Daily News, Post, Telegraph. and Star are unanimous in
insisting that for all purposes hut that of resisting inva-
sion a volunteer is a simple civilian, and is not, in
times of riot, to turn out with his anus or in
uniform. If he acts for the preservation of the
peace, it must he as other civilians do ; he must use no
other weapon than they, and he must act in the same
manner. Any other rule would be as disastrous to the
volunteer force as it would be injurious to the public.
The inference the Daily N u-s draws from the discussion is
that in summoning men who happen to be volunteers to
act as loyal citizens for the suppression of domestic
tumult, care must be taken so to commingle them
with the general body of faithful subjects as to pre-
vent that corporate action on their part which, what-
ever metaphysical distinctions may be drawn in the
mind of a secretary• of state or a borough magistrate, will
be practically equivalent to their employment as a mili-
tary force. It is observed by the T.lr graph that consider-
ing the government dill not, last night, utter one word
which even charity could construe into a frank abandon-
ment of the design to use the volunteers as repressive
agents in home disturbances, it cannot be trusted to draw
up and issue a circular of instructions without the super-
vision and sanction of the House of Commons.

With regard to Fenianiam, the Times can find no
nucleus in the insurrection, :ind sees only the desultory
action of scattered bands. It accuses the rebels of want
of courage and skill, but says they are bloodthirsty
enough, and have made war treacherously and cruelly.
The most sentimental can hardly regard the American.
Irish leaders and their principal agents as encodes worthy
of mercy.

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BUCKINGHAM PALAL, Menai 8.
During her Majesty's drive yeateaty ahe went
round Trite,lgar.square, and viewed the lions at the base
of the Nelson column, and paid a short visit to Mies Hild-
yard at St. Catherine's, in Regent's-park.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove
out this morning in a carriage and four, attended by the
Duchess of Roxburghe.
Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel Hon. A.
Harding° attended on horseback.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince's Louise. went out
this afternoon, and honoured Mr. Henry Weekes,
and Mr. M`Dowell, R.A., with visits to their studios. to
inspect the groups which they are executing for the me-
morial of the Prince Consort in Hyde-park.
.Her Majesty drove afterwards to Marlborough-house,
and visited the Princess of Wales.

The Duchess of Roxburghe, Major-General Hon. A. N.
Hood, and Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge were in attendance.

Princess Louise drove to the British Museum this morn.
ing. Her royal highness was attended by Lady Caroline
Barrington and the Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of
Windsor.

The Queen held a Council at Buckingham Palace to-day
at one o'clock. Present—The Earl of Derby, the Duke of
Buckingham, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Brad-
ford, the Earl of ('arnarvon, Lieutenant-General the Right
Hon. Jonathan Peel, Viscount Cfsnborne, the Right Hon.
Sir John Pakington, and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford
Nurthcote.

Previous to the Council, the Earl of Derby and the Duke
of Buckingham bad audiences of the Queen.
The Earl of Cameroon, Lieutenant-General Right Hon•
Jonathan Peel, and Viscount Cranborne were severally in-
troduced to her Majesty by Lord Begot (her Majesty's
Lord in Waiting) to resign their seals of office.

Mr. Edmund Harrison was clerk of the council.
Lord Begot and Colonel Hon. C. Lindsay, the Lord
and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance.

The Prince of Wale* and the Prince and Princess of
Teck dined with the Queen yesterday.
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold,
attended by Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, Major
Elphinatone, and Mr. Bahl, honoured the performance at
the Lyceum Theatre with their presence Lrst evening.
Princess Beatrice honoured the performance at the
Olympic Theatre with her presence last evening, attended
by Lieutenant-General Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey and the
Misses Grey and Colonel Hon. C. Lindsay.
Prince Arthur has left Buckingham Palace for Green-
wicb-jark, attended by Major Elphinstone.
The Judge-Advocete-General. had an audience of the
Queen this afternoon.

Mears. Howell and James have had the honour of sub-
mitting to her Majesty's inspection the jewels and erns-
mental works of art which they intend to exhibit at the
Paris Exhibition.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Keppel, bunted with her Majesty's staghounds yesterday.
The Rev. D. Wilson. D.D. (Moderator of the Irish
General Assembly), the Rev. John Rogers (Ex-Moderator),
Rev. N. M. Brown, Rev. It. Black, Rev. H. Henderson,
and Rev. C. L Morell, bad an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street yesterday on
the subject of the Regium Donum in Ireland.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong-Kong, Malta,
and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governor of
the Falkland Islands.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes;
of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and
the infant Princess, will leave Marlborough House for
Sandringham at the end of the present month, for the
purpose of spending the Easter holidays in quiet seclusion
on their Norfolk estate.—Court Circular.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppel, hunted with her Majesty's staghotuids
yesterday.

HUI Excellency the Prussian Ambassador had a
dinner party last evening at the Prussian Embassy on
Carlton-house-terr►ce.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton will entertain
a large party at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the
Croateth Park races. The following week they come to
town for the season.

The Countess of Lichfield gave birth to a
daughter on the 7th hut. The countess and infant are
going on favourably.

- Viscount Hamilton, M.P., left town on Thursday
to join his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the
Marchioness of Abercorn at Dublin Castle.

The Hon. E. Bulwer Lytton, her Majesty's
Charg6 d'Affaires at Lisbon, has arrived at Cataldi's
Hotel, with ?ars. E Bolster Lytton and family.

THE CssiNcr.—The vacancies in the govern-
ment occasioned by the retirement of Lord Carnarvon,
Lord Cranborne, and General Peel have been tilled up by
the appointment of the Duke of Buckingham to the officeof
Secretary of State for the Colonies, of Sir Stafford North-
cote as Secretary of State for India, and of Sir John
Pakington as Secretary of State for War. The Duke of
Richmond succeeds Sir Stafford Northeote as President of
the Board of Trade, and Mr. Corry becomes First Lord of
the Admiralty in place of Sir John Pakington. Mr.
Corry's suooessor as Vice-President of the Committee of
Council of Education has not yet been nominated.

The Imperial Review says that in case the House
of Commons should reject the Reform Bill, or should
carry amendments that are opposed to the principles on
which it is based, a dissolution will take place. The same
journal understands that the bill will contain no clause in
favour of household suffrage, and that it is not intended
to propose plurality of votes.
The Army and Nary Gazette understands that
tenders will be immediately called from the principal
shipbuilders of the kingdom who happen to be on the
Admiralty List for the construction of about ten gun-
vessels from improved designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, the chief
constructor of the navy.

THE SErRETARY FOR INDIA.—Thu Right Hon.
Sir Stafford Northoote issued the following address to the
constituency of North Devon yesterday afternoon :—" Her
Majesty ha, ing been pleased to confer on me the office of
Secretary of State for India, I have vacated the seat to
which you did me the honour of electing me last July. 1
now solicit a renewal of your coafidence. The govern-
ment of which I am a member has addressed itself
earnestly to the question of the representation of the
people, and is endeavouring to overcoats the diffi-
culties which have hitherto prevented its solution. I
need not enlarge to you upon the magnitude of those
difficulties or upon the importance of the subject. Lord
Derby has been supported an his arduous undertakings by
the conviction that the interests of the country demand an
early as well as comprehensive settlement of a question
which has engaged so large a measure of the public atten-
tion, and by the assurances he has received both from his
political friends and his political opponents, that they sre
ready to co-operate with him as far as possible with a view
to effect an object of so important a character. I trust
that this favourable opportunity for passing a liberal and
at the same tune a prudent measure may not be lost, and
that the spirit of nioderation which has thus far diatiu-
guishol the discussion of the subject may continue to pre-
vail. The withdrawal of three of the most eminent
member' of the cabinet has been a cause of great regret to
their remainingoolleagues. I trust, however, that, although
they have not felt themselves able to join in recommetd-
ing the particular measure which the majority of the
government have decided on submitting to parliament, it
will be found that there is a general agreement between
us as to the main object to be sought and the main princi-
ples by which we should be guided in the pursuit of
THE REPRE.sENTATIoN OF DROITWICH. —The
Right Hon. Sir J din Pakington, has issued en iel-
drevi to his constituents, in which he nays:—" In the ar-
rangements which have been rendered necessary by the re-
cent resignation of three members of the Cabinet, the
Queen has done me the honour to entrust to me the
seals of the War Department. It is, I assure you,
in no spirit of presumption, but solely from a sense
of public duty, that I have thought it right to
accept the heavy and responsible labour which
the adiniiiistration of that department involves.
This change of office obliges me to seek from you the
favour of re-election as your representative in parliament.
and I earnestly hope the step I have taken may be um.
tified by your approbation. I am sorry that my engage-
ments will prevent me from having the pleasure of meeting
you before the day of election, but I shall then be ready
to offer such explanations of the state of public affairs as
I hope you will consider satisfactory ; and I trust I may
once more receive from you that proof of your confidence
with which I have been so often favoured." The writ is
expected to arrive in Droitwich this day, in which ease the
election will take place on Wednesday next.
REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON.—Mr. Staniland
has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and a seat for Boston
has therefore become vacant. Mr. Thomas Parry, of Sles-
ford, Lincolnshire, who was returned for the borough at
the general election, but was subsequently unseated cm a
scrutiny, is the only candidate in the field, and it is
generally understood that the conservatives will not con-
test the seat on the present vacancy.

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LATEST INTELLIGENCIL

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AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MARCH 9.
_ _ _

The Emperor has addressed an autograph letter
to Baron von Boust abolishing the ministry of
state, and creating a ministry of the interior for
the non-Hungarian provinces.
Independent ministries are also created for pub-
lic instruction and worship. His Majesty appoints
Count Taafe Minister of the Interior, and Hen•
von Becke Minister of Finance.
Count Rothkirch has been relieved of his func-
tions as Governor of Bohemia, and replaced by
Baron Kellerspergan.
The negotiations between Austria, Belgium, and
the Netherlands for the conclusion of treaties of
commerce and navigation have been brought to a
satisfactory termination, and the treaties are ready
for signature.
The Vienna Papers state that Lord Bloomfield
has summoned to Vienna the English Consul
General at Belgrade, in order to receive from him
an account of the state of affairs in Beryls.

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TELBOILIPII.)
NEW YORK, MARCH 8, 5 P.M.

Closing prices :—Gold, 134. Sterling exchange
on London, 108 i. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1091. Illinois, 115 ; Erie, 5411. Cotton, mid-
dling Upland, 30
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Teutonia arrived out last night.

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Aberdeen 129.i.11 37 E.N. E. 4 N. N.L 6 - 6
Leith - 1 6
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Brest rat+ 37, IL '6 ; N.L sr 0.04 4
Lorient 29.59341 E. ; 5 N.E. 0 0.24 3
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Portsmouth 29.52 35 K. 61, N.N.L co 1- ; 3
London 29.57 22 LICE, 4I KNOT- she -
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THE BOMBAY MAIL

By the arrival d the above mail we have advice.
from Bombay to Feb. 14, and from Calcutta to
Feb. 8.

The Ca lodic' Englishman says that the state of
Orissa is such as to leave no doubt that the famine
will extend over another year. "Officials, asusual,
say nine mouths (it adds), but the figures recently
published in the Englishman show that up to the
and of November, 1866, the numbers relieved
steadily increased, and that, in fact, betwen August
and Noveniber they doubled. The autumn rains
were followed by floods, which not only destroyed
the prospects of the sound crop, but swept away
the almost ripened Bhuddave crop, the crop on
which reliance is now placed, to break the time
over which relief must extend. But it will be
easier and safer to take for granted that what
happens every year will happen this year also, and
that if the floods of August and September, 1867_,
are not so violent as those of 1866, that they will
not be absent altogether. The feeling amongst the
public is decidedly in favour of reckoning the relief
for the whole year. This will require at least
150,0001., which will have to be raised by public
subscriptions, and towards which there is perhaps
10,0001. in hand ; the government cannot do much,
as its subscription to the famine fund includes the
remission of the revenue for two years."
In concluding it remarks, the Englishman says :

The Viceroy is moving in the matter. and seems inclined
to actvigorously, but as usual a hostile fate pursues the
action of the Bengal authorities. They wish to sell the
rice to a population which has juqt come out of one great
calamity to enter upon another, and who, months ago,
sold the very roof-tree over their heads to procure a little
money. Sir Cecil Beadon appears incapable of learn-
ing. But this is not all ; the first do-patch
of grain to Orissa was marked as usual by
a huge blunder. The Agitator, with six doors carrying
rice,reached the river Dave, their destination, to find the
officer in charge without notice of her coming, without
boats to laud the rice, and without places to store it. The
Viceroy, however, will, on Tuesday next, meet the public
of Calcutta at the Town-ball to devise means for helping
the famishing the poor. Since August the Indian public
has subscribed about 70,0001. for this purpose, and will no
doubt come forward vr,th equal generosity ; but we require
help from home. There are not wanting signs that before
the outliner is out many districts of Bengal proper will
require assistance.

Small-pox, in a somewhat virulent form, is re-
ported to have broken out in the famine-stricken
province of Orissa.
A public meeting has been held at Bombay, at
which it was resolved to erect a statue to Sir
Bartle Frere, and to present him with a testimo-
nial on his retirement from the governorship of
Bombay. The members of the Byculla Club pro-
pose to give him a grand banquet before his de-
parture. The natives of Poona have presented
farewell address to him, and the Bombay Chamber
of Commerce, the bench of justices, and the
Asiatic Society have also resolved to do so. Sir
Bartle and Lady Frere have been entertained by
some of the principal members of the community.
The Bombay Oa:Atte says there is no doubt that
the late governor will leave India carrying with
him the sincerest respect of the whole community
of the presidency he has ruled over.
The new Governor of Bombay, the Right Hon.
Seymour Fitzgerald, was expected to arrive at
Bombay on or about the 25th February, and Sir
Bartle Frere would leave for England on the 29th.
The Tinges of India says that a proposition by
the late Mr. David Sassoon to contribute 6,0001.
towards erecting a building for a Mechanics' Insti-
tute in Bombay, on condition that the Bombay go-
vernment should grant a site for the edifice, has
been accepted. The foundation stone was to be
laid by his Excellency Sir Bartle Frere on the 20th
February.

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.—We read in the
Times f /actin of the 13th ult. News from Abyssinia
was received at Bombay on the sth instant, by the Coro-
mandel steamer, of the Bombay Marine, with despatches
from Colonel Merewether, the Resident at Aden. The
date from Maasowah was January 17, and the news frau
Mr. Itaasam and other gentlemen with him bore date lk.
cember 12. Though still in detention and under close
surveillance, their position was somewhat less irksome
than when the last accounts were received. Captain
Cameron and two or three others were confined within the
precincts of the port of Magdala, but Mr. Ransom and
the rest were allowed • considerable range, though
some of them were still wearing light manacles. They
were, however, all of them in good health, and Dr. Blanc
and Lieutenant Prideaux were building themselves • com-
fortable house. The most important item in the news is
the altered position of Theodorus, whose rebellious sub-
jects were fast nuking head against him, and notwith-
standing he had recently made a raid on Gondar, where be
burnt the churches, the territory owning his sway was
reduced to two small provinces. His forces she
now only about one-fourth the number he com-
manded last June, when he received Mr. Rimini in
full durbar. Hemmed in on all sides, Theodorus busies
himself with mechanical pursuits and experiments in the
manufacture of unmanageable ordnance, and doubtless is
eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the mechanics
and machinery. These are encamped in a healthy situa-
tion near Idrussowah, and will in all probability not be sent
on till the captives are actually liberated. News has not
yet been received from Mr. Flail's messengers, but this need
cause ao great uneasiness, as it augurs nothing against the
success of his mission, they having in all probability been
intercepted by some of the rival factions at present con-
tending fur supremacy in Abyssinia. A rumour for sonic
time assiduously circulated in Bombay was ...mewls-it
strengthened by the misinterpretation of • telegram,
to the effect that an expedition had by Lord Crass-
borne been ordered against Theodorus ; but this course
is now believed by those well-informed as to the disposi-
tion of the Home and Indian governments to be in the
present circumstances as improbable as it would be ill-al-
vieed and full of risk and difficulty."
LENT PREACHERS. —The sermon at the 12 o'clock
services to-morrow (being the first Sunday in Lent), at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, will be delivered by Dr.
Harold Browne, Bishop of Ely. At the 11 a.m. memos at
the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the Very Rev. Dr. Elliott,
Dean of Bristol, will be the preacher; and the famous an-
nual Lenten course of Sunday afternoon sermons will be
opened at Whitehall, at m., by the Archbishop of
York. The Chapel Royal, Whitehall, now accommodates
1,200 persons, and a considerable space in the chapel and
the whole of the gaPet:es are free to the public. At the
7 p.m. service beneath the dome in St. Paul's eitheslral
the Rev. C. Wellington Purse, M.A., Vicar of Staines and
Rural Dean, will deliver the sermon. These preachers are
all nominated by the Bishop of London, Dean of her Ma-
jesty's Chapels Royal.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENISIANt; WEEK.—Monday. Royal Academy, at 8, "
Sculp-
ture," Professor IVestmaeott ; Architects, at ; Society
of Ata, at 8," Music and Musical Instruments," Mr. Mul-
lah ; Geographical, at AI, " Delta of the Oxus," Admiral
Butakoff, and " Journey to the Sutlej," Lieutenants smith
and Harrison. Tuesday, Royal Institution, at :i, " Botany,"
Professor If euslow ; Engineer., et s', "Steep I )radients on
Railways" and " Memoirs on River Tyne," Mr. Brooks ;
Ethnological, at 8, " Ethnology of the Chinese." Mr. lam-
prey, and " Non-Hindu Tribes of Borders of Hindustan."
lion. G. Campbell. Wednesday, Society of Arts, at 8.
" Tinnivelly Pearl Fisheries," Mr. Markham • Bficrosco-
-0.1, at 8, "Metamorphoais, of the Tadisole,"ll4. Whitney.
" P.asites," Dr. Mackintosh, and "New Paraffin Lamp."
Mr. Lobb. Thursday, Royal Institution, at 3, " Coal
Gas," Professor Frankland ; Syro-Egyptian, at 7', " Har-
mony between Mosaic and Egyptian Cosmogony," Mr.
Bononsi ; Antiquaries, at ; Zoological, at " Anatomy
of Hyalonesna Messrs. Stewart and Salter,
"New Species of Shells from Mauritius, &c.," Mr. Adams,
and " Fishes of Neilgiterry Rivers," 1)r. Day ; Royal, at W..
Friday, Statistical (general anniversary meeting), at 4-;
Royal Institution, at 8, " Early Mental Condition of Man,"
Mr. Tyler; Philological, at 81, "Study of English at the
Universities," Rev. 0. Coekayne. Saturday, Royal In-
stitution, at 3, " Coal Gas," Professor Franklasul.—
Atherneem.

ADMIRALTY, MARCH B.—APPOINTVIENTI4.—Com-
inanders B. L Lefroy to the Spiteful; J. T. Swan to the
Rattler, vice Webb, promoted; and H. P. Knevitt to be
Inspecting Commander of Coastguard at Berwick.on-
Tweed, vice Lefroy ; Lieutenant W. M. Latham to the
Cambridge ; Master E. C. Roberts to the Cumberland, for
service in the Waterwitch ; Acting Assistant. Surgeons
J. B. Drew and T. Bolster to the Victory, for Hadar
Hospital, and C. McConaghey to the Royal Adelaide, for
Plymouth Hospital ; Midshipman G. H. Moore to the
Lord Clyde, as supernumerary..
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
In Lord Redessiale's committee of the House of Lords yes-
terday the Great Western and Bristol and North Somerset
Railways (new lines) was allowed to proceed, striking ant
clause' 4to S. The standing orders were dispenses' a kis
in the rase of the Solway Junction Railway ; the Wey-
mouth Consumers' Gas Bill was allowed to proceed with
certain modifications as to land. In the House of Commons
group 6 (presided over by Mr. ficholefield) was the only
one that sat. The Idle and Shipley Railway Bill WAS
passed and ordered to be reported, as was also the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway. The London and North
Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway eOIIIIPI.
nies Bill being unopposed was IL -vd back to the chair-
man of committees.