The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

TrIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE.
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whenever and wherever neglect and cruelty are
proved. We should, of course, hi glid io leant
that six thousand poor wretches ars 'soured from
workhouse ill-treatment ; but we should be still
more glad to know that ill-treatment had been abo-
lished ; and it is difficult to understand on what
principle in national ethics the greater duty should
give place to the leas.

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" BYARS'," otter the Covent Ueeden end the Theatr_es

the Orpreoo.

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and W. Fame ; Min AdsCamedish.—THE FAVORITE
OF FORTUNE. Marra Backstage, Chippendale, and &Ahern ;
Ms. Chippendale, eto.—And A DAuffirtlat TO MARRY.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

narrows.
Tun Maim A GHOST IN SPITZ OP HIMSZLF.—Attar
which THE SIZZATS OF LONDON. Maws. Vining, T. Meek
D. urray, Mon and Villiers Mn. H. Marston, and Mires Z.
Banat% and K. Rodgers.

PAPUAN:UTAST TOPICS.
A blind and prosperous age, remarks the Timm,
forgets the part and is blind to the future. Before the
close of the century we shall in all human probability have
at least one great war, and that, when is oomes, will
have to be fought more with money than men;
but we must look beyond the century.
In the days of our
children's &Mem we are told that all the coal of these
islands that lies within 4,000 feet of the surface will be
exhausted, if we go on increasing our consumption at the
present rate. And if this be so a thousand special arta
and manufactures will fly the empty soil, and the popule
tion will follow coal wherever it is to be found. Unless
then this whole generation are content to cut a sorry
figure in history, as men who came on a vast mine of sud-
den wealth, and other splendid opportunities, but wasted
them most selfishly, we ought to make an effort to pay off
our huge debt. We are changing the whole body politic,
and it may be that the burdens and obligations of the old
constituency may not pass to the new. Now or never,
then, is the time to make the choice whether we will pay
our lawful debts, or indulge in things we can do without.
If we do not make the better choice now we never shall.
A correspondent of the Times selects from some tables
given in a recent pamphlet forty cities and boroughs
in which the proportion of working men will be
very greatly increased by the government Fran-
chise Bill. In a leading article the Times goes
over these statements borough by borough, speculat-
ing on the effect which the increased constituencies would
have on the character of the representation. Its conclu-
sion is that in all these cases much the same sort of men
will be returned as at present. But this is not an
argument for the bill, in the advocacy of which
the Times cannot help seeing the signs of a bad animus
against the middle class, against shopkeepers, against even
the artisans of the more domestic, quiet, humdrum class.
There is a craving for electoral units of a more natural,
less sophisticated quality, which can be managed by the
ordinary agency and the usual hospitalities. Therefore,
although the bill does not seriously threaten the political
balance in these towns, neither will it prove conducive to
electoral purity and dignity.
The solemn admonition of Mr. Mill was destined, the
Daily News says, to sink deep into many earnest minds,
and to pierce the national conscience to the quick. The
anti-malt-tax agitators will hardly venture again to pro-
pose an immediate sacrifice of two millions and an ultimate
sacrifice of seven millions of revenue for the sake of re-
lieving the most flourishing class of farmers in the king-
dom from the ghost of a grievance, and cheapening to the
extent of one farthing the beer of labourers, whose lips are
innocent of the taste of meat from one Christmas to an-
other. Every year the case of these respectable, and, we
must say, good humoured agitators becomes weaker.
The institution of a beer tax, which some of them reoom•
mend, would be a step backward in legislation. It is a
point gained, however, that the division on this subject in
their councils should have occr-red, since the only ground
of reoonciliation must be the adoption of Mr. Cobden's
advice, to look for the gradual remiuion of the duty in a
reduction of the expenditure of the state.
The Pod thinks that if the debate to be resumed this
evening is to be brought to a close at any reasonable hour
on Saturday morning, many members who desire to ad-
dress their constituents from the House of Commons
must necessarily be disappointed. It may be assumed
that, besides the Chancellor of the Exchequer, two cabinet
ministers and the irresponsible adviser of her Majesty's
government remain to be heard on one aide, while on the
other there are half a dozen speakers who, from their posi-
tion in the house and the remarks which have been made
on their conduct in the course of the discussion, are en-
titled to claim a hearing. This is an attractive programme
for the galleries.
The Herald denies that parliament is pledged to reform,
though, if it adopts Lord Grosvenor's amendment, it will
be bound to consider the question with a view to its set-
tlement,wbenever a bill dealing with the whole subject
shall be laid before it by the government of the day.
The Telegraph addresses itself to honourable and reason-
able conservatives who hold the happy privilege of render-
ing the majority for the bill sufficient to spare the country
and the ministers an unwelcome necessity, and advances a
variety of considerations for their adopting such a course.

LYCEUM.
THIS Emrich SIMPSON AND CO.—And THE MASTIOL OF
DAYENSWOOD. Messrs. Fielder, O. Jordan, Yerin, Dnery,
Widdloomb, FStspatrick, de. ; Madames Ternan, laarrorthy,
Wenn, and C. Leclereq.

BRITANNIA.
TEM Erman, THE DARK KING OR THE BLACK MOUN-
TAIN& MM' Clara St. Cease, Mn. & lane—Master I Samlars
—The Wines Famlly.—And THE SOGITLML CHM% Mr.
James Anderson.

Eta Court.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19.

Tin friends of the sick pauper have good reason
to be satisfied with the proceedings of Saturday.
The influential deputation which waited on the
PRESIDENT of the Poort-Law BOARD met not merely
with conventional official courtesy, but with an
outspoken sympathy for their aims, and a direct
pledge that their particular scheme of reform should
receive careful consideration. The statements of
the Lancet Commissioners, which led to the forma-
tion of the Association for Improving the Condi-
tion of the Sick Poor, were tacitly confirmed by
Mr. Vuiazas, who has recently instituted a special
inspection of our metropolitan workhouse infirma-
ries—not, as it would seem, because he doubts any
of the harrowing facts put forth, but that he may
have official data on which to base his forth-
coming recommendations to the House of Com-
mom. If it be remembered that the archives of
the Poor-law Board are probably crammed
with documentary evidence respecting the
size of existing workhouse wards, the number
of medical officers and nurses employed in each,
and the proportion of sick and infirm to hale in-
mates, and that many of the abuses publicly shud-
dered at now have been officially censured for
years past without effect, it will be seen that the
doubts expressed in some quarters lest the inspec-
tionnow ordered by the Pnesinzrrz should prove to
be a polite mode of shelving a difficult question
are more than needless. Were it thought possible,
or desirable, to dispute or cavil at any of the lead-
ing propositions for reform, materials for doing so
would be more easily procured from records
already extant than they are likely to be from any
supplementary and necessarily hasty inspection
inaugurated now ; and we believe the public may
rest assured that, so far as the Government is con-
cerned, no effort will be wanting to place the
administration of our Poor Law on a secure and
satisfactory basis.
Indeed the admissions of Saturday leave the
matter virtually in the hands of the public and
their representatives ; and upon the expressions of
opinion and the wishes of the Legislature will
necessarily depend the form of action resolved upon.
Mr. VILLIERS has proved his desire for comprehen-
sive Poor-law Legislation by his measures for the
relief of the Metropolitan Homeless Poor and for
extending the area of chargeability to unions.
Both these Bills were framed on a similar principle
to the one on which it is proposed to provide for
the maintenance of the six great hospitals for the
sick who are now initiates of workhouses ; both
met with grievous opposition, and both conferred
incalculable benefits on the community. As Mr.
V muses hinted pretty plainly on Saturday, it is
for members of the House of Commons to say
how far a similar opposition would be quelled
by the urgency of the present case, and
the extent to which the public conscience has been
aroused. There is no dispute as to the magnitude
of existing evils ; no more doubt that our paupers
are killed off annually by ill-treatment and neglect,
than that our cattle die from rinderpest ; and the
only point left for discussion is the means by which
this shocking sacrifice of human life and systematic
infliction of cruelty is to be prevented. The com-
mittee of the new association ask that a general
hospital rate shall be levied for the whole of the
metropolis, and would rest satisfied with having
rescued the sick paupers from their present hard-
ships, while leaving the aged and infirm, the imbe-
cile and the very young, to reap such sparse and
barren advantages as may accrue from increased
house-room. It is tree that the paper signed by
the leading medical authorities, giving the prin-
ciples on which the sick should be treated, laysdown
as indispensable the providing day-rooms for the
aged and infirm. But this part of their recommen-
dation would, so far as we understand the proposal
to which the action of the committee seems limited,
have little more chance of being carried out after
the erection of State-hospitals than before. Paupers
fortunate enough to need medical attendance, would
be treated with humanity and consideration ; but
those not yet starved or neglected into actual
disease, would be neither better nor worse off than
now. This is no stigma on the plans of the new
association. Originating out of a medical inquiry,
and professedly directing its energies to ameliorat-
ing the condition of the sick, it has, not without
much deliberation and forethought, decided on
confining its action to their relief.
It is impossible, however, for those who feel the
necessity for searching parochial reform, to close
their eyes to the logical deduction to be made
from the proposals and revelations of this commit-
tee; or to withhold their concurrence and sym-
pathy from the Archbishop of YORK, who insists
that until some power independent of and superior
to boards of guardians can compel these
gentlemen to do their duty, the public
will be scandalised, and the " orders" and
recommendations of the central authority be
flouted and despised. The committee for im-
proving the condition of the sick poor in work-
houses have done their work manfully and well ;
but there can be no reason but expediency for ex-
cluding such cases as were cited by the Archbishop
from the merciful consideration of the public. Yet,
it is more than probable that neither the weakly
baby laid out as dead at St. Pancras Workhouse,
nor the exhausted wretch who died from neglect a
few hours after his admission into that of Bethnal-
green, would have had their miserable fate averted,
or have found place in the suggested hospitals
even if they were built. Surely this is sufficient to
prove the necessity of a radical change in the mode
of administering our Poor-law, and controlling its
officers ; a change which shell affect not merely the
moiety of paupers who are ill, but shall give us proper
and efficient service, a wise and humane system of
relief, and definite responsibility and stern justice,

PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE CONGRESS.
The Times gives some account of the evidence of General
Lee, which appeared some days ago in the Erpress,
and deduces from it proof that the South accepts the
results of the war without reserve, and is prepared to
return to its former position with a resolution to perform
all the duties of citizens. The rest must necessarily be •
work of time, but it will be accomplished most speedily,
as well as most surely, through such a policy as the Pre-
sident now advocates. A policy of provocation and oppres-
sion continued after victory, can only intensify and per-
petuate that very hostility which it is intended to ex-
tinguish.
The Tdegrapk sees nothing but disaster in prospect.
With open war between the Congress and the President, the
passage of even the ordinary appropriation bills necessary
I for paying the interest on the public debt, for supplying
the wants of the army and navy, for the thousand ramifies-
! tions of public service in a country of such vast and varied
I interests, becomes difficult, and may become impracticable.
Every day accumulates fresh evidence that we Englishmen
have been too ready to believe in the prompt restoration of
orderly and peaceful government in the United States,
after the terrible and bloody conflict of the last four or
I five years.
The Star does not doubt that the backbone of the nation
will sustain the cause of freedom in the grave crisis which
has now arisen at Washington. The Civil Rights Bill
does not propose to confer the suffrage upon • single
negro ; it gives him civil equality before the law ; enables
him to make and enforce contracts ; to sue and be
sued ; and to give evidence in the courts of
law ; to purchase, to hold, and to convey pro-
perty like all the citizens of the state ; and generally to
exercise the fame civil rights as those who happen
to have been born with • more fortunate complexion.
This is the sum and substance of this much-abused
measure. The simple question is, whether four millions
of human beings are to be handed over without protection,
and with no power even to guard the fruits of their own
labour, to the tender mercies of as cruel a rase of task-
masters as ever cursed the earth and those who till it,
President Johnson declares that this shall be done. Con-
gress, on the other hand, is equally inflexible in its deter-
mination that it shall not be. With all his stubborness
of will, the Star does not think that the President is the
man to seek to accomplish his end by illegitimate means.

THE 'EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 14866.

••11111110 the Amen* would acid" ofainls whose services
G eneelders 'animus. Further, the house has proceeded
to appropriate Gi slim gained by its retrenchments for
public works. and this the Governor reside en the ground.
which the Daily News considers a valid one, that the
Assembly has no right to initiate public expenditure. It
is an essential part of the oonstitutional system that every
grant of money shall be recommended by the crown before
it is voted. Were it not so, there would be no real and
individual responsibility for the management of the
public finances. It seems, however, that on re-
ceipt of the Governor's protest the Assembly pealed
resolutions, among other things, refusing compensation to
the officials whose salaries had been abolished, and mart-
ing its right to originate and increase money grants.
Every fresh advice from Germany is to the Post so much
fresh evidence that Prussia wants the Duchies with the
view of becoming the leading power in Germany, and that
if she can carry out her purpose by force or diplomacy she
will do so. Europe looks on with no little cariosity to lei
on which horn of the dilemma he bas made Count von
Bismarck will have the temerity to impale himself—for
• either alternative involves almost equal temerity—to strike
the first blow and plunge Germany in war, or to recede
from his position and confess himself beaten.

LATES'

lENCE.

NAVAL ARMAMENTS IN ITALY•

OSBORNE, APRIL 18.

The Mosistatto of Genoa says :
We learn that the Minister of Marine has just issued
orders which indicate extraordinary activity. Admiral
Persano has been appointed commander of the united
squadrons of evolution, and Vice-Admiral Albini has
been appointed second in command. The armaments of
the navy are pushed on with great activity. Amongst
other orders issued is one for hastening the naval levee.
The Italia of Naples says that the naval esta-
blishment there has received orders to prepare for
the armament of the disposable vessels of war.
The men in the arsenal are actively employed in
the manufacture of war material. In addition to
the Garibaldi and the Castelfidardo, the Count
Csvonr and other vessels will be immediately put
in commission.

The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday
morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, and drove out
in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Helena, and
attended by the Countess of Caledon.
Major-General the Hon. A. Hood was in attendance
upon horseback.
Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Lieutenant
Stirling.
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein rode, attended by
Colonel Du Plat.

THE COST OF WAR IN MEXICO.
Letters received from the city of Mexico state
that, according to a calculation made from the
official despatches which have been published in the
papers of that city from time to time, there took
place during the first seven months following the
arrival of Maximilian in Mexico—viz., from June
to December, 1864, between the liberal and im-
perial forces, engagements to the number of 122,
In which the number reported as wounded was
1,300, and the killed 3,277 ; and that during the
year 1865 there have taken place 322 encounters of
arms, with 1,279 reported as wounded, and 5,674
reported as killed. This is an average of nearly
one battle per day during the last year. The total
during Maximilian's brief residence of nineteen
months, to Ist of January last, is 2,000 wounded
and 8,951 killed. From the small number re-
ported as wounded, compared with the killed,
it would almost appear that no quarter
was given to the wounded. It also ap-
pears from this calculation, made up purely
from official despatches published in the city of
Mexico, that while the number of engagements be-
tween the opposing forces during the first part of
the above term was only from 15 to 17 per month,
the number had risen in December last to 34. The
loss of life by executions under courts-martial,
under Maximilian's decree of the 3rd of October
last, is reported to be even greater than that in
battle.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour.
able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber.
Whitehall, upon the subject of the Southport Incorpora.
tion. The lords present were—the Lord President, the
Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hon. Sir
George Grey, and the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan. The
Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General also were pre-
sent. Mr. Helps (the Clerk of the Council), and Mr
Harrison (the Deputy Clerk) attended.
A Committee of the Lords of the Council sat yesterday
at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of
the Cattle Plague. Present—the Lord President and the
Right Hon. Sir George Grey. Mr. Helps and Mr. Harrison
attended the committee.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the Australian Colonies,
Hong Kong, and Labuan. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of Malta.

(RIOTER% TILLGRAMEL)
POPULAR MEETINGS IN PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, APRIL 19.

CABINET COLIICIL.—Last evening summonses
were issued for a Cabinet Council on Saturday next, at
the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in
Downing-street,
Last night Mrs. Gladstone had a reception at the
familyresidence onCarlton-house-terrace. Previously tothe
reception, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad-
stone received at dinner his Excellency the Russian Am-
bassador, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl Cowper, the
Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. C.
Forrescue, Lord Clarence Paget, the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. and Mrs. Majori-
banks, kc. Later in the evening a numerous company
responded to Mrs. Gladstone's invitations. Among the
members of the Corps Diplomatique were—His Excellency
the Turkish Ambassadorand Madameand Madlle. Minutes,
his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Apponyi and Countess Helene Apponyi, his Excellency
the Bavarian Minister, his Excellency the Spanish Am-
bassador and the Marchioness de Moline, his Excellency
the Netherlands Minister, his Excellency the United States
Minister and Mrs. and Kim Adams, his Excellency the
Hanseatic Minister, his Excellency the Prussian Ambas-
sador, M. E. Musurus, M. I'. Musurus, the Marquis de
Tamisier, Baron Rosenkrantz, Princess Soltykoff, Count
Maffei, Prince Michael Gortchacow, and Mr. Andre
Kokhanowsky.
The Earl and Countess Russell received at dinner
last evening, at their residence in Chesham-Place, the Dean
of St. Paul's and Mrs. Milman, Lord Henley, M.P., Hon.
Charles Howard, Hon. Charles Wood, Viscount and Vis-
countess Amberley, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, Miss Lister,
Mr. John Romilly, !cc. On the previous evening the dinner
party consisted of his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador
and the Countess Apponyi and Countess Helene Apponyi,
the Duke of Leinster, the Earl and Countess of Mine, the
Marquis de Tamissier, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley,
Lord and Lady Taunton, Lady Georgina Russell, and Hun.
Lyulph Stanley.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France enter-
tained at dinner last evening, at the residence of the Em-
bassy, Albert-gate Home, his Excellency the Italian Mi-
nister, his Excellency the Spanish Minister and the Mar-
chioness de Molina, his Excellency the Hanseatic Minister,
the Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Egerton and the Hon.
Mils Egerton, Lord and Lady Lyvelen, Mr. Alfred de
Rothschild, Baron de Bantle, the Marquis de Tamimier,
Mr. Seydoux, Viscount d'Espinelles, and Viscount de
Virel.
Sir John and Lady Johnstone received at dinner
last evening, at their residence in Beigrave-square, the
Archbishop of York and MIS. Thomson, the Earl and
Countess Granville, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and
Lady Mary Stanhope, Lord Eliot, Viscount and Vis-
countess Nevill, the Right Hon. Hamilton Seymour, Lady
and Miss Seymour, Mr. Christopher Sykes, Mr. William
Harcourt. he.
Mrs. W. E. Gladstone's next assembly is fixed
to take place on Wednesday, May 2.
The Countess of Derby has of late greatly im-
proved in health. On Tuesday and yesterday the countess
took carriage airings.
Miss Burdett Coutts and Mrs. Brown have ar-
rived in Stratton-street, from Torquay, where they have
been passing the recess.
THE MAY MEETINEs.—The following arrange-
ments have been made for the meetings of the principal re-
ligious societies known as the " May meetings," although
some of them are held in April, and some in May. The name
of the chairman is annexed :—April 20, Home Teaching
for the Blind, Willis's-rooms, the Earl of Shaftesbury ;
April 23, Lord's Day Society, St. James's-hall, Sir Brook
Bridges, M.P. ; April 24, Chu.•ch of England Scripture
Readers, Hanover-square Rooms, the Archbishop of
Armagh ; Irish Baptist Missions, Bloomsbury Chapel. Sir
S. M. Peto, M.P. ; April 26, Baptist Missionary Society,
Exeter-hall, Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P. ; Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel, St. James's-hall, Archbishop
of Canterbury ; April 28, Association in Aid of Deaf and
Dumb, Willis's Rooms, Sir John Pakington. M.P. ; April
30, Wesleyan Missionary, Exeter-hall, Mr. John Fernley ;
Home and Colonial School, Gray's-inn-road, the Earl of
Chichester ; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
St. James's-hall, the Archbishop of Canterbury ; National
Temperance League, Exeter-hall, Mr. Samuel Bowley ;
May 1, Church Missionary Society, the Earl of Chiches-
ter ; May 2, British and Foreign Bible Society, Exeter-
hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Systematic Beneficence,
Exeter-hall, Mr. R. C. Hanbury, M.P. ; May 3, London
City Mission, Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ;
Church Pastoral Aid, St. James's-hall, the Earl of
Shaftesbury ; Evangelical Alliance, Freemason's-hall,
Mr. It. C. Hanbury, M.P. May 4, London Society
for the Jews, Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ;
Religions Tract Society, Exeter-hall, Sir F. Crossley,
M.P. ; Reform and Refuge Union, Willis's-rooms,
the Earl of Shaftesbury ; May 5, Royal Naval Female
School, United Service Institution, the Earl of Shrews-
bury ; May 7, British and Foreign School, Borough-road,
Earl Russell • Christian Vernacular Education, Will's's-
rooms, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Protestant Reformation,
WiLlis's-roorns, Admiral Vernon Harcourt ; Rimmed School
Union, Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Irish Evan-
gelical, Poultry Chapel, Mr. Charles Read ; May 8, Con-
gregational Union, Weigh-house Chapel, Rev. Newman
Hail, L.L.B. •, Irish Church Mations, St. James's-hall,
Mr. J. C. Colqulionn ; British Society for Jews Hanover-
square Rooms, chairman, doubtful ; Home Jews,
Poultry Chapel, Yr. Morley, M.P. ; May 9, Church Home
Mission, Hanover-square Rooms, Bishop of Carlisle ;
Colonial and Continental Church,St. James's-hall, Marquis
of Cholmoadeley ; May 10, London Infirmary, Exeter-hall,
the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Operative Jewish Converts, Lon-
don Tavern, Hon. W. Ashley ,• May 11, Missions to Sea-
men, Willis's-rooms, Archbishop of York ; May 14, Co-
lonial Missionary, Poultry Chapel, Mr. J. Spicer • Foreign
Aid Hanover-square Rooms, the Marquis of Cholzirondeley;
Turkish Missions Aid, Willis's-rooms, the Earl of Shaftes-
bury ; Primitive Methodist Missionary, Metropolitan
Tabernacle, the Lord Mayor of York ; May 16, Army
Scripture Readers, Willis's-rooms, chairman doubtful ;
May 17, Evangelical Continental, Exeter-hall, Mr. Cheet-
ham, M.P.; Peace Society, Finsbury Chapel, Mr. Joseph
Pease •, June 12, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
St. Paul's estbedral: June 13, Friends of Clergy
tion, Millis's-rooms, Marquis of Salisbury ; June li?l,3axirfr
rie
thin Community, London Tavern, Sir S. M. Pete M.P.
There are to be sermons in various churches and chapels
is connexion with them and other eecardies.

A meeting of the electors oftie first electoral
district of Berlin was held here yesterday, when
the following resolution, supported by several of
the Prussian deputies, was adopted :—" That a
war for the annexation of the Duchies was unjusti-
fiable, and that the Federal Diet was as little com-
petent as Count Bismarck to guard the interests of
Germany, and to ward off danger. Only a Prussian
government possessing the confidence of the people
would be strong enough to solve both the question
of the Duchies and also that of a reform of the
Federal constitution."
Popular meetings have been held both at Duren
and Treves, at which the same feeling of opposition
to the war was expressed.

THE NEW NATIONAL BANK.

BARCELONA, APRIL 19.

An address, signed by upwards of a thousand of
the principal inhabitants of this city, has been for-
warded to the Spanish Minister of Finance, con-
gratulating him on the formation of the new
National Bank.

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS.
POINT DE GALLE, APRIL 12.
The Measageries Imperiales steamer Cambodge
left here on the 10th inst., with the inward India,
China, and Japan mails. She had on board 200
passengers, 600 bales of silk, and 1,670 packages of
sundries. The Tigre, with the outward mails of
the 19th ult., left here to-day.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.

GIBRALTAR, Aram 18.

The Pera, from Southampton on the 12th inst.,
arrived at 9 p.m. yesterday, and left at 7 a.m. to-
day for Alexandria.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 19.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen
arrived here this morning with 292 passengers and
160,337 dollars in specie for England.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(moat ouu OWN coaararommerr.)

PARIS, WIDNERDAY EVENING.

The Bourse, after a feverish opening and many
fluctuations, closed at an improvement, on the
strength of a rise in Vienna and a report that M.
de Bismarck had made a conciliatory proposal to
Austria, and suggested a simultaneous dis-
armament. I am persuaded that this latter
story will turn out to be a bottle of smoke.
It is probably only founded upon an inaccurate
telegraphic resume of Bismarck's despatch to Baron
Werther, dated Berlin, April 15. We have the
text of this despatch in the evening papers, and
nothing can be more bitter, quarrelsome, or un-
yielding than it is. It gives the lie direct to the
Austrian government, and throws upon it the
initiative of a disarmament. However, the Bourse
reports of the day say that " Germans have been
buying." The rise at the close of business was
general. Rente rose 20c. for cash, and 37c. for
account, closing at 67fr. 15e. in each case.
Mobilier rose llfr. 25c. ; Credit Foncier, sfr. ; and
Italian, 25c. The Northern Railway rose 12fr. 50c. ;
Southern, llfr. 25c. ; Lyons, 6fr. 25c. ; and
Orleans, sfr. Western fell 2fr. 50c.
On taking the chair in the Corps Legislatif this
afternoon Count Walewski read an imperial decree
prolonging the session till June 21 inclusively.
The Patric treats as a mistake of the English
press the representation that France was negotiating
with Madagascar only for a treaty with the most
favoured nation clause. France asks for much
more ; she claims besides certain special privileges
which she conceives due to her peculiar position,
and there is good hope that she will obtain them.
A thanksgiving service for the preservation of
the life of the Emperor of Russia from the hand of
an assassin was performed to-day in the Russian
church of the Faubourg du Roule, and very nume-
rously attended. Baron de Budberg, with all the
members of his legation, was present, and Baron
d'Andri, a director in the Foreign-office, repre-
sented M. Drouyn de Lhuys.
The Archbishop of Paris is about to go to Rome
in order to fulfil the vow which every bishop takes
on his consecration to perform a pilgrimage an
ad titaina apostolarient. Circumstances prevented
Mgr. Darboy from undertaking this journey while
he was Bishop of Nancy.
M. Emile Offivier's career as an editor is likely
to be short. It is positively stated that M. Mires
has bought up most of the shares of the P,regge, and
that he intends to make it a government journal,
with M. Cucheval Olarigny for redacteur en dui.

THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILLUNITE AND THE
A.

It is already known that the American Senate on
the 6th pushed the Civil Rights Bill over the President's
'vie by a vote of 33 to 15. The bill originally passed the
Senate on Feb. 2 by a vote of 33 to 12, five members being
absent. It passed the House of Representatives on March
13, the vote being 111 in favour to 38 against (not quite

two-thirds) with 34 members not voting.
Before the vote wee taken, Mr. Saulsbury, a demo-
cratic senator from Delaware, took the floor and said, " I
rise to say, air, that in my judgment the weep of this
bill is an inauguration of revolution. It is well, sir, that
the American people should take warning and set their
house in order, for it is impossible that the people will
patiently submit to it. Heaven knows that we have bad
enough of bloodshed, enough of mourning in every house-
hold. There are too many new-made graves for
anyone to wish to see more. Attempt to exe-
cute this law within any State of this Union and
in my judgment this country will again be plunged
into all the horrors of civil war. In my own State, an
humble state in point of numbers, bat a state of gallant
sons, your law will never be observed by the judiciary of
that State, most of them of the republican party. There
is not, I say, a republican judge, we never had a judge so
dead to the teachings of the great luminaries of the law as
to attempt to enforce such a flagrantly unconstitutional
law or act as this. I shall not again enter upon the con-
stitutionality or unconstitutionality of the act. But, sir,
if it be not grossly, palpably, flagrantly, unconstitutional,
then five and twenty years of some diligent study of the
law have availed me nothing." In conclusion Mr. Seals.
bury predicted that the passage of this bill would lead to
bloodshed, war, and diaunion.
" Now came the thrilling moments," says one account-
" which were to witness the decision of the Senate upon the
question before them. Every one, as if Impressed with the
solemnity and gravity of the occasion, was hushed into •
portentous ellencewhile the President made the announce-
ment, ' Shall the bill be passed, the objections of the
President of the United States to the contrary not-
withstanding The roll was called, and each
senator boldly answered in accordance with his
convictions. When the name of Senator Morgan
was given and he replied in the affirmative
there was great sensation and clapping of hands both on
the floor and in the galleries. When the result of the vote
and the passage of the bill was stated by the President
there was an outburst of applause, especially in the galle-
ries, only suppressed by a voluntary dispersion of the
crowd. In this portion of the chamber the negroes were
particularly moved, and gave vent to their feeling by
cheers. This completed the excited deliberations upon one
of the most important actions which has yet emanated
from the Congress of the United States since the close of
the rebellion."
On the motion of Mr. Trumbull, the Secretary of the
Senate was ordered to communicate to the House a oopy
of the veto message, together with the result of the veto,
above given.
The Boston Advertiser of the 7th, commenting upon the
vote, says :—" The occasional glimpses which are obtained
as time goes on of the history of what Mr. Johnson has
termed the ' warfare' between himself and Congress, do not
exhibit the President as the party attacked. Mr. Trumbull,
for instance, in his speech on the Civil Bights Bill the other
day, gave a scrap of its history which shows that the
friends of the measure were desirous of anything rather
than an issue with the President. The bill was prepared in
conformity with what were supposed to be his views, it was
privately shown to him before action was taken upon it,
and he was invited by those with whom ho had long been
acting in political harmony, to statejany objections which
he might have to it. It is well known also that the
Freedmen's Bureau Bill was shown to him before action
was taken upon it, and that in that case too
his conduct was such as to imply assent. In
both cases the gentlemen who dealt with the
President might perhaps be accused of subservience to
the executive will, for which the condition of the country
could be the only justification ; it might be said
that they lowered the dignity of their own branch
of the government by this anxious consultation
with another ; but they are at all events en-
tirely cleared from the charge of courting an issue
with the President. A few words said in private by him
would probably in both instances have prevented the final
collision ; and the responsibility for what happened, the
suspicion of desiring that it should happen, must rest upon
him who omitted to say those few words, andnotupon those
who gave him the opportunity. Whatever may finally prove
to be the motives which led the President to enter upon
this warfare, a grievous miscalculation of his own strength
will unquestionably be found to have been one of his prin-
cipal mistakes. Nothing can be more significant than the
dead failure of the movement which began on the 22nd of
February. That amazing despatch which said among
other things that the President's speech was trium-
phant,' and the country was happy,' would not have
seemed quite so flat had a little real success justified its
complacency. But for the hundredth time it has proved
that it is one thing to get up a meeting at Cooper Institute
with all the New York world for officers, and quite
another to exercise the popular influence which
such an array of names seems to imply. AU that
was done then was so little towards consolidat-
ing a strong support for the President in his war
fare, that it could not save Connecticut for him, it could
not even keep those who were then his supporters firm
against the Civil Rights Bill, and it could not prevent the
country from giving its sympathy unmistakably to the ma-
jority in the Senate who took their stand upon that bill
against his veto. So far then the warfare which started on •
mistaken trust in the sanguine assurances of New York
politicians, and the movement which has never assumed
anything more than the dimensions of a New York diver-
sion, have been dead failures, so far as concerns any
positive effect in the restoration of the Southern
States. Negative influence for evil they have had, no
doubt, in abundance. They have retarded the work of
reorganisation which might otherwise have been set upon
a secure basis before this, and have postponed the day
when all the States shall be represented in Congress ; but
Achievements of this sort need not be felt as any great en-
couragement to Mr. Johnson to persevere in the ill-ad-
vised enterprise which he has undertaken."

A letter from Kingston, of the 27th ult.:, says

" The two commissioners, Hr. Gurney and Mr. Houle, will
return by the next mail steamer, leaving Sir Henry Storks
in the double capacity of governor and commander-in-
chief. Colonel Whitmore will also return, to enter on the
duties of his new appointment at the Horse Guards."
An Irish western paper says that " not a single
day passes by without witnessing batches of emigrants
from every direction leaving for America. Many able-
bodied young men are also going to England, and labour has
in consequence become uncommonly scarce and expensive."
; Large numbers of emigrants still continue to embark at
Cork for the United States.
New peace meetings have heen held at Troves,
Bockolt, Gnevenbroich, Witten, Elbing, Berlin, Konigs-
berg, Duren, Nenmunster, Offenbach, Frankfort, and a
good many other places both in Prussia and the Federal
States. The resolutions adopted all concur in condemning
civil war and predicting the most terrible circumstances

therefrom.
The restoration of Notre-Dame is rapidly ap-
proaching its termination. All the 'Mined Mass windows
have been completed and placed in the ogive openings ; the
northern portico is finished, as are the chapels surrounding
the nave. By the end of this year the old cathedral will
once more appear in its pristine beauty.
To almost every place abroad letters are now
charged uniformly according to half ounces. This method
make/ a difference of 2s. in the postage of • single letter
to places on the south-wed smut of America. A letter
for those places weighing a fraction over the ounce was
formerly charged Be. ; it is now only 6e. The chief places
for which letters are charged according to the old method
are Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Singapore, and
Ceylon.
ETON COLLZOIL The Easter vacation termi-
nated yesterday with the return of the lower boys. The
fifth form return to-day and the sixth to-morrow, when
the whole of the scholars will have assembled.
A Naw Por.rricm. CLUB.—We a-
are informed
that a number of gentlemen, prof liberal consery
tism, are engaged in organising a club, fn order that their
interests may be consolidated and advanced, sad due vigi-
lance exercised over the impending changes in oar electo-
ral system. We hear that a dm* committee will shortly
be announced, end that excellent premises have been
secured. It is stated that the name decided en for the new
eh* is the " Clarendon."