The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1868.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

•
THE PROPOSED ADDRESS OF THE CORPS
LEGISLATIF TO THE, EMPEROR.
(most an owl octazasmomam.)

(sou ens SPIKAAL

PARIS, MONDAY EVINENO.
In the Carpe Legislatif today Count Walewski
read from the their the following draft of the-address
proposed by the bureau :
Sire,—The • Corps Legjahthif is happy to observe with
your Majesty the tendency, tionstactly more and more gene-
ral, to resolve forage difficulties by pecific means. 'Phis
tendency, strengthened is it bas been by your interviews
with many severeigns, and by the friendly media; of the
Foglish and preach fleets, is an additional pledge of that
peace, the pieservatioa of which responds to the require-
ments if peoples, accomplishes the within of 'France,
sod honours the wisdom tad prudence of her government.
We have ever shared with the Emperor the firm hope
that a resomiliktion will take place between the Papacy
and Italy--4.mooncilktion essential to both their interests,
to the peace of Room, end the repose of consciences. The
conventios it Sept. 15 honestly smented will be a fresh
imamate* cif the temporal power—(applause)--the mainte-
same of which is indispensable to the independent eilYollB
of the spirileal power of the Holy Father. (More approba-
tion.) Oar expeditor to Maio° is approaching its end. The
country has removed the assurance of this with setisfaction.
We were fined to go to Maxiso by the imperative duty
al protecting oar omintegmen spinet odious violence, and
obtaining the ashen of our too legitimate grievances. Our
soldiers and sailors have worthily fulfilled the teak assigned
by your Majesty to their devotedness. This expedition
attests once more in distant countries the disiuterestedness
and the power of Frame. (Applause.) The people of the
United Betio, which knows of old the loyalty of our
policy end the traditional sympathies which it inspires,
has so noon to take umbrage at the presence of our troops
on lioxion seth To oaks their recall depeedent upon
any other .onsideretios lima our own convenience would
be isoompatible with our rights and our honour. (Load
applause.) Of these, Sire, you are the guardian, and the
Corps Legislatif knows that you will watch over them
with a edieitude worthy of France and of your name.
The calm which prevails at home enabled your
Majesty to Omit Algeria, whose went' cannot be too
closely examined, and to give a fresh proof of your
sympathy with that emairy. Tone absence gave the
Empress as opportunity to eureka those rare arid noble
qualities which add to the spleadear of the throne and
the security of the country. (More &pelmet.) It was In
the midst of this calm that thousands of electors pre-
sented with the most mitre liberty to renew the meni-
al* oranaile. This vest movement of public opinion bore
/ribose to the spirit d order which raises among the
populstices, and your government has only bad ocesmion
very exeeptioselly to make me of the memory and
conservative right mowed to It by the Constitution.
(N.B.—Thin alludes to the sight to nominate mayors
sot elected by the municipal ormuoil, a right which
the Duke de Persigoy thinks should be exer.
deed without my exception.) The law on coali-
tions, the bill relative to op-operative societies,
and the facilities announced for favouring the development
of them, open an era of experiments deserving our common
solicitude. The oo.operatkin of the Corps Legislatif will
never fail yea, Sire, whim you have to reconcile manures
suggested by the interests of the Wearing alarm with the
noosed-ties of peblio order. The inquiry destined to 411101111.
kis and throw light upon the sementio and desires of
the egrionlarel clams, will be hailed in the rural
districts, se it is by us, with a 'sentiment of
the meet lively gratitude. We are sure we conform to
your Majesty's totentions when we express the hope that
this inquiry may so be conducted in .11 the departments as
to enable every interest to explain Its Irma is the idiot
manner. The agricultural populations—so laborious, so
frugal, and so profoundly devoted to the Emperor, will
confidently disclose to you, Sire, the distress they stair
end the rowdies they hope for. (Applause.) We coo-
gratulater onneeless, with your Majesty, on the &mailers-
time of our Monate, end we shall examine the WI as tliti
sinking fend with all the atteetion due to such an im-
portant subject. The economy effected in the public
service mowers to a wish frequently expressed
by the Corps Lsgisktif ; but at the ism' time the Emperor,
as guardian of the intends of the army, felt bound not to
weaken our military organisation aid to acquit the debt
owing by the country to those who had valianidy served it.
It is quite right that the savings aocompliahed should have
left intuit the resources of public works. Agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures are alike interested in the
extension and improvement of car means of oommuoice.
tion. Public instruction also could not fail to keep
untouched the credit allotted to it. Primary in-
struction has certainly made praiseworthy program,
thanks to the active and simultaneous efforts of the Stets,
the communes, and fsmilies. It is by seconding more
and more these triple efforts that we shall succeed in realis-
ing the desire common to your Majesty sad the Corps
Legislatif, and in reducing daily the number of children,
already not large, who are deprived of the benefits of *du-
oration. Pesos abroad, order and activity at home, attest at
owe the salutary initiative of your go/calmest and the
confidence of the country in the stability of our in-
stitutions, the bases of which rat on the free and
solemn vote of the French people. There is nothing
in this stability irrsooncileable with the prudent progress
of our liberties. You have already proved this, Sire ; said
the past is a pledge of the future. To develop our insti-
tution', to ensure labour and credit, to strengthen public
morality, to consolidate religious principles, without which
the best laws are inefficecions —such is the fruitful work in
which your Majesty joins with the great powers of the
State, and which draws closer and closer the bonds which
unite France to your person and dynasty. (Loud applause.)
There is nothing in this address calling for espe-
cial remark, except the passage relative to Rome.
This goes even further than the address of the
Senate. It not only uses the expression " tem_
poral power," but, presuming to put the dots upon
the i's of the Emperor's speech, says t
tha tt he
temporal power is essentially necessary to he exer-
cise of the Pope's spiritual jurisdiction. A most
curious situation is now, therefore, created. No
political man will venture to contend that the
word "temporal" was left out of the Emperor's
speech accidentally ; and yet the Senate and Corps
Legislatif, whose bureaux it is well known take
government instructions when drawing up their
addresses, stick in the word temporal. What the
dissidence means time alone can show.

Madame Parepa will make her first appearance in
Exeter-hall. since her return from America, to-morrow,
at the performance of 34 endelseohnli "Hymn of Praise," and I
HOIPSiOI'S " St.b.t Mater,* by the National Choral Society.
Miss Annie Cox, Miss Lucy -Freckle* Mr. Leigh Wilson,
sod Mr. Weiss are also engaged. The conductor will be I
Mr. G. W. Martin.
GREENWICH Hourrai..—The estimate for Green_
Hospital and School for the year 1866-67—the expen-
diture to be repaid from Greenwich Hospital Fluids per
Act 28 and 29 Vie., c. 89—has now been separated !reel the
navy estimates, though prepared by the naval department.
The estimate for 1866-67 is 125,3671., compared with
63,9151., the vote for six mouths of the financial leer
1865-66. The three branehes of the estimate are office expenses
at Admiralty and household and infirmary, 45,7461. ; pea-
dos,. 54,908. ; and school, 24,7191.
WATERLOO AND WHITEHALL RALIATAT.--.The first
half-yearly mooting of this oompany will be bold on the
22nd inst. The report, to be then submitted, states that in
an undertaking so novel and important, involving the es-
tablishment of au entirely sew system of locomotion. it
has been neoesstry to exercise much are in the arrange-
' ment of every detail of oonstruotioo.
.Those details bare
now been tally settled between the engineers and the mi-
ltractors, and the works are being rapidly pushed forward.
The plans of the line, where within the jurisdiction of the
Board of Trade end of the Conservator of the Thames
have been eMeally approved by those departments ; aad
the neeessary arrangements with the Metropolitan Board of
. I Works are In course of settlement. The directors have an-
. abated °Deadlines is the success of the undertaking, which
is attracting much public attention both in this sad other
countries • mid, looking to the extraordimasy results which
f havekitherto attended the prorrisioe of all facilißes 'tdoubt of eethetit
- internal traffic of the metropolis, they have Do
future remunerative ~to, to the ehmeheldeeu

NEW YORK, Fa 7.
The affair at Bagdad, SA far as we know of it,
seems to have been a tolerably disgraceful one for
somebody. It is positively asserted that United
States troops did cross the river with or after the
filibmtets, and did take part in the pillage of the
town after the garrison had been overpowered.
General Weitzel says they went over to preserve
order and protect property, and where the tenth
lies we shall not know for a long time, if ever,
through any official channel. There is no doubt,
however, that the authorities at Washington are
considerably annoyed by the affair, and that very
stringent orders have been issued for the preven-
tion of anything like a repetition of it. Crawford,
who came to New Orleans to get recruits and rein-
forcementa, finds himself, as I told you in a
former letter, looked up in one of the forts on the
river.
I cannot report any great change in political
affairs. Talk of an open rupture between Congress
and the. President is every day lore and more com-
mon ; but how it is to come, or en what point the
split is to take place, it is hard to determine—
perhaps on the bill permitting negroee. to vote in
the district of Columbia, perhaps an the bill for the
security of civil rights, or the 'bill extending the
power of the Freedmen's Bureau..l refusal to sign
any one of these, if passed, would perhaps bring
matters to a crisis. If the Freedmen's Bureau be
maintained in its integrity, I think it Is all that can
now be looked for with confidence. The passage
of the constitutional amendment changing the
basis of representation is a virtual aban-
donment by Congress of all attempts to se-
cure the franchise for the Southern Degrees
by Federal action, and one now hears very
little of it except from the radical abolitionists, led
en by Mr. Wendell Phillips, who will accept no-
thing else, and who deer not see any other remedy
for Southern troubles. Fierce contests have occurred
on the question of dissolving the Anti-Slavery
Association and the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
Society, Mr. Garrison taking the ground that their
work was done, Mr. Phillips, on the other hand,
maintaining that until the negro was admitted to
an equality of rights with the white man in every
Southern State, slavery could not be said to be abo-
lished, or at least any adequate guarantee to exist
against its restoration. The result has been that
the former and a large number of his folk/was have
weeded from these bodies, leaving to Mr.
Phillips the duty of maintaining that the
negro is nearly as badly off as ever—that the
war, as far as he is concerned, will
have been waged in vain unless the South is
either governed as a conquered province, or the
blacks are at once invested with the franchise and
protected in the exercise of it. Mr. Garrison and
his friends have thrown themselves heart and soul
into the freedmen's aid movement, which, has for
its object the establishment of schools in the South
for the negro population, and the extension of
such other temporary aid in the shape of food,
clothing, and medical attendance, as they may re-
quire et present ; this work, on the other hand,
Mr. Phillips treats with great scorn, and will have
nothing to do with it. It is right to say that he is
aairning An the eyes of ali-bat a very smallest of
his own followers the character of an intense im-
practicable, who sees with dismay the approach of
the period when he will have nothing left to de-
claim about, and who has so long inveighed and
denounced that he is now fit for no other work.
As regards negro suffrage, there was a
moment when it would have been possible to feta-
-1 blish it, and that was when Mr. Johnson began his
work of reconstruction. Had he when ordering the
election of conventions to bring the States back
into the Union refused to recognise, or permit to be
made any distinction of oolour among the voters,
the principle that no such distinction should exist
would have been established beyond question.
Other qualifications for the exercise of the suffrage
might have been exacted of the freedmen, but fair
complexions would not have been of the number.
The opportunity was allowed to escape, the South
recovered from its fright, and the North from its
disposition to do desperate things, and now he would
be a bold man who would predict when the negro
will share in the government of any Southern State.
Things might have been different had the North set
a good example itself, but it has not. The votes
of Connecticut and Wisconsin almost paralysed the
efforts of those who were agitating the question
here.
But on the other hand, as I have already said
in one or two recent letters, there is no doubt that
the state of affairs at the South is improving, and
improving rapidly—since Christmas very rapidly.
I hear every day from fresh and trustworthy
sources of the alacrity with which the negroes are
entering into contracts, and the diligence and cheer-
fulness with which they are working. Their most
hopeless and inveterate enemies confess that the
result is astonishing them. There are, of course,
still a great number of cases of ill-treatment.
Murdering negroes is said to be in some districts
almost a trade, and there is little doubt that
kidnapping them for the Cuban market pre-
vails to some extent. They are decoyed on
board small vessels in the rivers on pretence of
carrying them to the swamp or forest to engage in
lumbering, and are then run over into Cuba and sold.
This story has reached me from two or three quar-
ters; and although the affair is kept pretty secret,
and there would be great difficulty in procuring any
evidence about it, I am inclined to believe all
I have heard. Still, on the whole, things are
going well. As I have more than once said, the
real regeneration of the South, as well as of the
freedmen, must come from the freedmen themselves.
No protection that the Federal government can
throw round them will be half as effectual as that
which will be afforded by their own good behaviour.
Industry and orderly behaviour must win for them,
sooner or later, the respect of the whites,will win them
the respect of the best class of whites at once, and
at the same time make the planters more and more
dependent on them. And the more firmly this
dependence is established the more disposition
there will be amongst the whites, of course, to pro-
tat them against the more lawless of the whites.
In the meantime the Freedmen's Bereau is playing
a most invaluable part in acting t on
the passion and folly of thelocal authori
enact a
ties. In every
Southern State there is a diaposition to
special code for the government of the blacks,
bristling with oppressive restnctions, and "cruel
and unusual punishments." As long as the game
is confined to mere legislation, the Federal officers
look on oilmly, but at the same time quietly, mane
an order to their subordinates not to permit any
statute of this kind to be enforced in their district.

CHATHAM. FIB. 19.
ROYAL E1f012121118 FOR IRRLLND.—A sudden
order has bees received at this garrison, from the Hose
Guards, directing 50 noo-commiadoned Akers sad men of
the Royal Engineers who have completed their sauna of
fold-work instruction to be held in immediate readiness to
=Val,* Ireland. The man selected have tees medically
sad await an cedar far their departure from the
The 72nd (Highlanders) Regiment, which disembarked
from the hired trooo-ship Tweed, from Bombay. will pro-
ceed to-morrow afternoon, by special train, to Wasbntek,
where the regiment will foe the present be quartered. Tim
72nd will leave Tilbury at one p.m.

REVISION 01 TWO LITEROT.—Lord Rumll has
returned the following answer to Lord Dray upon the Bab-
ied at the revision of the Liturgy :—" Downing
Yeb. 12. My deer Lord Eleiry,—After eassaltiag oeot
=and communicating with the Archbishop of Can-
I have to Mate to you the derision of her Ma-
issty's government net to propose the ionise of a
vowel dolt for the revision of the liturgy. The
former commission upon the terms al moneription
arrived at a °prolusion which gave greater freedom el
opinion to every person in holy orders ; but • ecestraisioa
tar the reunion of the Meru would ie all probability lead
to heated dieeemiees, and its report, it it homed say,
would be sore to edend and imitate a liege party in ies
elute. As her Majesty's goverment are mese anxious to
SOlcratd, 044=7 end goodwill. and not to open the way to
is most decline to adopt the proposal which year
lardehin and the deputetiee which accompanied you have
made. Thanking your lordship for the manner end courtesy
of Lour ommunication, I rsotain, he., Romisti."
THE SIISPIENSION 01 TNT MAMAS CORPUS. WHAT
IT Mn•xe.—A short amount of the meaning and effect d
a " reapsneion of the Habeas Corpus" may sot beikeingpor-
tate at the present moment. Under the lewd no
ma's personal liberty can be restrained unless doe
DORM of law and in order to seem to testy man this eon-
stitstioesi brimenity, the memos law reridesthat soy per.
son aggrieved by illegal imprisonment is entitled to a writ
of right, teohnicallynemedHaeas Corpus ad retoidervium,
directed to the pigeon detaining hint, who is achunanded by
it to produce the body of the primmer with a sloteseset ail
the day and mime el his eapture &ha deteedos, ad facies-
endm, suejiciemirst d recipiendum ; to do, mihmit to, sad
receive whatsoever the judge or court awarding week writ
shall consider in that behalf. This commas law proms was
aseered and explained from time to time by variossetatme,
from the Great Charter and Petition of Bights dame to the
31se Oar. 11., it. 2, and the Irish Act 21st sad 22nd Geo. IL.
G. 11, by which two latter statutes the methods el
the writ in Basked sod Ireland see pointed clot. The
general effect of the law as it deed on last Saturday
marries was, that oe complaint and request in writing by
er on behalf of any person committed and charged with
any erime, the Lord Clissoellor, se say el the twelve
judges, was bound to sward • Habeas Corpus far Pooh pri-
soner, isemediately !Mumble ; end that within two days
the party, if bailable, should be discharged. In the ease of
committal for Grimes not bailable, the seensid person could
require, nuder the proteetimi of the same writ of right, to
be indicted in the next Ism or next mike of Oyer sad
Terminer, and it acquitted, as it not Wired end tried in
the seeend trim or maim, he was entitled to be disshsrgsd
from his imprisonment for the imputed amen Tb.SAset
of the legislation of Saturday is to seepesdthsefficeey of the
writ of Habeas Corpus, whereby the emotive rams of the
mono are freed from legal responsibility for arresting and
I imptioring any prison to whom a crime may be twitted.
11 and the person so =mimosa is deprived et the privileges
et Yielding upon being admitted to bail or beieseisaedndieted
sad tried. Thus during the term al suspension by
pediemeat, the Crown can imprison suspected persons
without giving any }ISM ter so dalog, the settee by its
representatives—Queen, Lords, and Oonmons—egrering
te pleas a portion of its liberty, for • while, In abeyance,
in order to preserve the whole for ever.—Dubles Evening
Moil.
CUTTING DOWN TRIM FOR PIIGH-HANDLII3.
Recently some young ash trues were cut down in a planta-
tion belonging to a man named Eilbrkle, at Oappeghwhits,
is which village, as 'tried in oar last, some freshly man-
feetured pUtelaseds bad been discovered. A petite was
posted in the plantatioe to the effect that if the owner
would not mention anything about the matter, he would
ere long be rewarded by the perpetrators of this outrage,
who.. there la every Masse to believe, are scaeeeted Is some
eray with the Fenian oonspiisey.—Clonewl Chronic/2.
SUICIDE 01 • YOUNG MARRIED WomAx.—A
young woman who bad arrived at the Guildford Sta-
tion on Saturday evening committed suicide by
drowning herself Is the river Wily the following
morning (Sunday). under very patriot and extraor-
&eery circumstances. The deemed, who is described
as beteg about twenty-men years of age and cif prepoe-
'seeing appearance, booked her luggage i
I the name
of G. C'halcrah, and proceeded to the Bear an, Prissy-
street, where she took apartments for the night, and re-
tired to bed at Lilt-past 11 o'clock. having
the previously re-
quested that two little girl., nieces of laedlady.
might be allowed to sleep In tee same room. She got up
about half-pest 6 o'clock, and left the home before the
inmates were stirring, bat one of the children asked her
before she want out whether she was not going to do her
hair. She replied. " Not now, darling." A. marl who
had gone to the howls to get some beer saw her pro-
ceed in the direction of Mill-mead, and then lost sight
of her. Several persons, however, saw her on the bank
of the river, where she deliberately took off her hat sad
&Moho' and leaped into the stream, which was much
swollen by the recent rains Those who saw bar could
render no Resistance as she was swept away with
great rapidity. and several persons who were standing en
the town bridge saw her me wider it, shortly after
which she sank. Attempts were made to recover the body,
but without success. Before leaving her bed-roam tie
young woman mattered • quantity of moos y and paws
about ; and a post-office savings bask book dated from
Iteoley-00-Thames, crediting the deemed, in the name
of Elisabeth Wesley, with 111., was limed. it has bass
meertaineri that the demised, whose maiden name
.was
Chalcraft, was married • few months ago to a tedor,
reeidieg at Motley-tie-Thames, and that she left her hoe-
band's hoar, owing to domestic differences, • few days
slam. She had. previous to her marriage, lived as do-
mestic servant with Mrs. Smallpisee, Shelford, sod at that
time was eoesiderid stomp is her maneers, sod ant quite
right in her mind. Her parents reside at Shuford. near

Horsham.
Sureosen SCIOTO': FROM A STEAMER. The
master of the steam trader Rainbow, which plies between
London and Great Yarmowh, reported on his arrival se
the latter port on Sunday that at about 5 a.m. a gentleman
who had taken • passer° from the London-wharf had
been missed at Southwold, Suffolk. It is believed that
the passenger committed suicide. He was about 70 years
of age, wore a beard, and was from Mt. 91n. to Mt. Iffia
in height. ide wore a light skull cep, dark coat, and light
trousers, and he loft oo board the steamer • hat and great
variousi latter oontaising a purse with ss. in it. and
other articles, which are now in the possession of
the Yarmouth police.
A STATION MASTER KILLZD.—On Saturday even-
log, an accident occurred at the Middleton Junction Rail-
way Station, which was attended with fatal remits to the
station master, Mr. Thomas Bate. The Rochdale special
service train from Manchester. at 7.15 p.m., arrived at the
junction about 7.30, and passed at the rate of 30 wiles an
hour. A number of pameagers were on the platform at the
time, and • luggage tram was coming in the opposite
direction. The decreed. who was urged keeping the
people back, was caught by the engine of the express, and
was dragged several yards. His body was broken in pieces,
and scattered about in all directions. The company's ser-
vants soardily collected the remains, and conveyed them to
the Radcliffe Arms, to await the coroner's inquest. The
deesseed was 59 years of age. Re has been station master at
Middleton Tor the last sixteen years, and Las always borne
en excellent character far being sober, active, tad attentive
to his defier.
Tnt CIGAR Snip.—Yesterday afternoon, at 4
o'clock, the Roos Winans, better known as the " cigar
ship," was launched at the shipyard of Mr. Hepworth,
Cabitt Tows, Isle of Dogs. This remarkable ship, unlike
cigar, is pointed at both ends, tapering gradually end
smoothly from the middle. It has two screws, am at
each end of the ship, but not
there would Ssot bebeyeri
ffici
room for eond Ste paintedent
extremity, where
bearings for the screw shaft. For this reason esch screw
is 18 feet nearer the centre of the vessel than the points,
the Dam thus left at each extremity being attached to the
Taft and allowed to revolve with the screw. The screws
are 22 fest in diameter, and have eiebt blades each. A
wooden deck, with bulwarks pertly of the same materiel
end partly of iron, is attached to the outside of the c3linder,
this external appendage having the shape of one of the
ordinary Thames river steamboats. but it has two vatlcal
bon fantails, and two light teleacooic meats. Thus in the
water the venial loses much of its tigerlike appearance, and
has the somewhat ungraceful loot of a small steamship
Mack in the back of some nondescript ma monster, whose
bead aid tee are eoecealad below the waves.
goysKiragetaTox liusavie.—During the week
darling February 17, the visitors bays bees as follows :
On Monday, Tuesday, sad Saturday. free days apse from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 11,902. On Werse‘y, Thursday,
and Friday, Madames' days (admission to the pubUe, 66.),
epees from 10 a.m. tin 4 p.m.. 1.554: total, 13,456; from
wgsdngel taw musesum, 5,823,1119.