The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1869.

to plead this defence under the general issata. No
real reform in bankruptcy preesedinpsen, however,
be looked for, unless the delicate qmsliset si par
sioaal remuneration be fearlessly grappled MA dealt
with. It has, we know, been propel Won
titan? and auctioneers' and aecountautte bills men
stringently, and to insist upon toduced
es the contrary, would take away all taxatioe, sad
leave the trader to make what bargain he pleases,
end we IN convinced that in the sad it would be
Jena expedient for these profemiseal gentlemen to
Amp by way of commission. Under the present
system of taxation the solicits:, virtually obtain' 121
per cent, the auctioneer 4/ per cent., the Mehl
aseignee 6 per cent, and the inemenger 6 pee mat
of the net meets; whilst all the Court fess together
do not absorb more than 6j per cent out of the Nag
fund. By the new Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill
—Lord Joao RusexWe—the messenger's °See
will be swept away, the official assignee will be paid
• bed Wary ; and if the Court fee (as may be im-
pacted) are reduced to a fractional par tentage, the
auctioneer and solicitor will find it worth their
while to be content with • lower per ;restage than
they at present obtain, rather than lose all their
basins' ; the supply will accommodate itself to the
demand. To return, however, to the rival Bills. The
Loan CHANCELLOR hitherto has practically ignored
the existence of any other measure than his own ;
ean he do so any longer P The City meeting that
we have noticed must surely have brought conviction
eves to his mind that his Bill must eventually be
absorbed into the other; will it not be better for
him sad for the Ministry with which he is connected
quietly to admit and recognise this truth rather than
WI WE to the lilt--already rather too long—of
mossures which Government are endeavouring to
pee in the teeth of popular opposition P Or is it
imesseary that oath member of the Ministry
should have • Bill of his own rejected—Mr.
WALPOLE • Church Rates Bill ; Mr. DISRAELI IL
Reform Bill, Lord CHELMSFORD a Bankruptcy Bill,
and so on P We cannot believe that so suicidal a
comae will be persisted in. And yet the language
which the AMR/IT-GENERAL was instructed to
ass towards Lord Joan Roseau's Bill in the How
of Commons yesterday was studiedly ambiguous.
He could not mistake the favourable reception so-
corded to it on its second reading, but he only
allowed himself to say that the main principle of the
Bill might receive the sanction of Parliament, but
that he thought some points of detail might be re-
arranged. We trust that no mistakes or temper
mists will be permitted to occur. Lord borne Rim-
sues meamme is in unison with the feelings and
wish, el the legal and commercial public, the LORD
Quotation's has its origin only in vanity, or
'sprite, or party feeling; and the Home of Com-
Mons will at say rate for epee be safe in following
the principle of " Measures not Men."

be Court.

. MOP" MACS 111.
The QOM Sid the Prime Covert, aeooatputied
hp ?deem AM. Piteous. Helen, Mame 3atsiat, Pi
ens ikatrkfa. Pio Arthur, sod Priam Loyal, snivel
at Osborne it a quirk. pot tee tide& yeeesrdry tem
Leaden.

The ruyal party or owed over from Boutheapka la the
Poy.

The Paw. Dr. Ilachnbas aad Mr. Nakao', wad de the
Presbytery cd Idiabarah. had ea Warne w with the Lard-
dams* as Wedindsy, fa rainace to the watt, tax
la that ally.
eir name Fnmantle, Charms of the Caftans had
is Interview with the Chancellor of the lizokegnar yistarday
at Ms °tidal ruidasee
Mr. W. J. Ganmitt, Mott, mid a
depatotem, had as istervlaw with tho lad at Dosoaihiaore
sad
TraiLordn Lashio ranadar, at tip Moe al the beard al

Salklel Orwoldes el the Privy Moen sat ye,-
terdey. ken Mob, tbs Nest ladle Uwe-
peel. v. Neie wed etriresst• (pert hew 4), wee rammed.
bred Klogehrwa wine cm ea weal heat New
South Wile% Xvvelskw v. tam"
Dreptehee hem the Cievesers at Haag Log eel dyke
were received yideriey as the Celealikeee.
wore seat te the Gomm* el the Wet ladle e=a; d
liviehb C

A letter from Berlin, dated Monday, •r :--" Her
kora Memo Princess Frederick William hes been
churchei at the dihedral. The seam on Ilse owed= We.
preached by Dr.l3trauss, First Chsplata to the Court. All
the august personages staying In Berlin were menet, and
were at a court dosser also I. the evening. The Data d
Sara Cobonrg has returned to Gotha, and the Graced Due
el Meeklenbarg-nchwesin ham left km Vienna."

The Earl and Countess Stanhope received • die-
thnrcialied circle at dlaast last maim, at their milksop in
Citaaaasovalaaa.

Vimountees Palmerston had aa sasembly last even-
ing .t Cambridge Rouen Piecedify. There wee a very tan
end teeldoitable attiadeace. Their Royal Mientemm the
Duke and Duane enmesh, honoured Yr ladyship with
ilvir presence, arriving Wetly before 11 Veloric.

The Countess of Hardwieke had s " reception"
Let night at the Lord Privy Beare private roddsose in Part-
man-spar% A tedlisat elide responded to be ladyship's
invitation

Tba Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury bad a
slot poly at dinner last 'sluing, ths gusts WAAL' his
Mudlogy the Swedish Minister sal the Osodsms Pb..,
ths NM ad Coaster Amherst, the Comtism of adalot,
Lard sad Lady Colohmtsr, Lord Kinpdowa, Lord Ness,
lady Cosh, Coked the H. W. P. Talbot, tbs Bight
Not. C. B. and Ho. Mrs. Adder's'', Mt Hash 11. sad Lady
Campbell, Sir William Frew, Capra ,* Los, Mr. sad Mks
WAWA Mr. W. E. West, sad Mr. W. Poi.

The Apeaker of the noose 4 00amoa6 gave his
sixth porlimeestaly tall dear Mame lest mein to She
dilesieg esembare of the lower hem.:—The Earl .t March,
Lied Northam, Has. Owes Strawy, Bight Hon. W. E.
Gladdest. Mr his Itrolos, Mr Graham Montgomery,
Mr Idi.b reilaber, Sir lkliard leviago, Sir BeakW
Parry, ft Meier' W. Cembe, Plafer-Oeserst Had, Colossi
Cid Lei, Wool PreeMa, Mr. Wendt, Mr. Peeks, Mr.
Isightiey, Mr. Tollemecile, Mr. Mesartsay, Kr. Oveablt,
Mr. liceekli, Mr. liedgette baby, Mr. Smashed Hoge,
Mr. Themes Mosby, Mr. Mand'ey, Mr. Aldermen Belo.
mass, Mr. Sams Ricardo, if,. J. C. Beset, Mr. Holland,
Mr. Philips (Ilatarteedmeet), Mr. Ddlwys, Mr. Bout-
nest, milk& Briscoe. The Has. George Waldegrave end
the Rev. Hoary Drury had the brassy of *sing the geety.
The Speaker oral hold his ISM Wm (tall dram) es the
~deg et thtardey, the 26th March, at halt-past lOtt dock.
--

Mr. B. B. Blackwell, barriaher.st-law of Now-
eesthreparTpae, bus be appointed s Clll
alperlel Ball in the Coasts of Ciasen's Boach.Cosolea
Mesa, sad Exchequer.

The Kent Herald otatta that, by the desire et
Lard Pore•aq, M.P., president of the Hop-duty Repeal
'Asserititice. Mr. Dodemes monks upon this question win ke
gestpmed lar the gresene, his lordship having teamed with
Metes Body, Req., the chairmen of the anticlines, and other
inesestlal gentleman. It was thought that the repeal of the
Miss duty cm hops and the pretest depressed oonditkat of
his viewers, eivesisuy in West Rent and ikusex, vas •
matt rd i.e pest important to be brought be/ore pariia-
e•eat si • lbw when the government was so folly lueud.d
Mbar pielideg hvt•ees.

_
The fileerree Journal of yesterday nays :—.Ol TO
her in Mai of the Indefatigable industry, the e-
WW
smiths Ise work, as we may all it, of the AM!
Sr Lftialdlitift. one rainless •to have atteedad the
here hst sight in the city ball ea the currency.
Thin, sad cm that occasion, we. earn how a giant
rfroshan Memel: after Ms toile. Having jog cr-
anial the History of Europe, not to trek of tha
*Mal and magiatatial dense which la theassairs
would weigh down ha energies of any oallsory
are. end which an veer ..winded, Sir Archibald
Albin plunges by way of serenablo Argo and relaxation
fro Ur probing of ha onreeney. After a hard roll of
work, than le arab* Mee a delightful expatiation in to.
Ilyir bid. of the ...nary law,. There everything is
we sass" the hob so &bendiest, the evidence so clear, the
etstinios os naquerlesehle, and the eonclu.ione so starting,
that one who is only straw enough for unonsing labour and
sulterat hob • positive relief is escaping from the quid-
MOM lie the law and the infoluble difßrulties of history into
r plarant and traasparent an atmosphere."
The Board of Trade have ordered • formal inves-
tigates, mullr the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act,
1565, Into the circumstance attending the recent creaky to
the royal sell stens-paeket Prince Frederick William. The
inquiry is to be kelt at the mania. hour, at Dover, ea the
23rd inward.

The boding submarine oablemaken are now
gto contra* for the stammetal submergence of an
Mimic wire, tiling e/1 the risk of loss or damage upon
tlinsuelms. As mends tis old able at Valentin, se
skew hes lawn piste in its conditios; in ems of a fresh
wire bang laid, the old am would undoubtedly be valuable
Is. the return current; bat, eneept to this limited extent,
there a•s no hopes, it is said, of Its ever being further
staked.

The special correspondent of the Times writes
from Lacknow :—" The fur'origha of the civil aerirke era
epanod. But what la the are, if the renitraler and Oriental
de net take compassion on tut Will to one bear tbe cry of I
lb.. poor st,itings who are Flying, tot with apprehension'
d the et:RION; lusts, 'We can't gw oat! We can't set
oat l' and liberate as from tte cage ? The ' Greet Beetene
to the mensal Not all the cony is the Caicos, nor the
prawns Is the Gasps, nor the hookas tattles it !Undoes',
tor the claret cape of a➢ the clubs, toe all the putkebs in
Bengal, sr the plaided roancose at Bombay, ere have,...
,:;
'rem brews oi hoer can tempt ore who alma hut racemes
seder canna to Mg another, unless the civil orrice or a
it bolgadierahip with he mink four 3's a month, blade him
by golden lithe to the bendag deadly soil."—The !rind of
bait sloe rya :—.• The dale of oar commmeleation with
Ear". Is Wei, miaow nineteen tithe Paninetler
end Oriente' Cespeny are taken op he months to come,
said M the roMetemeth testacy men root p mad the
tip.. Then le set dr dig►ted three of • ~Wes is the
rash. Farlosehe will probably be epee la Meech, sad be-
tween that mouth and September peones will be almost
anattanable. The company mild to place aztre steamers
en the line, withuat refugees% Bagrad. The penvengere
elate war pay all OVIIIINIL"

The areperorNapoies• was te receive the Prussian
Anbsanarior, Colima Pourialas, in a prhafe mailmen to-day.
Yesterday the Prince Imperial, eon of the 'tre-
mor Napoleon, entered his fourth you.

A few days ago the Roman catholic municipality
ad Vienna contributed 6,0001. towards the construction of
prArstant acho.l-houw. Ills Wormy the Emperor has
jest iha 3,000 florins overdo a new church for the Jesuits,
but be be. shoo contributed the raze sus towards a place of
womb* for his yrotostrint subjects.
The Armstrong cannon and other British Mora-
lkme wisp the attract= of some of ow Peri. contempt,.
Parke. The Atailear ek Li Inotto admits that the Ant in-
v.*a he erre, bet outsiders be reputation to be exagge-
rated. TM Baste chewers :—" Bewever well the
of Cagle& Norkm's shell easy be it cannot to
tele e well Mows iciore kfig os the lometioess of Ars.
Si, Illf sad of Whitworth. TM mititsry nations have too
deep on hearse Y kilewleg up everything that Wide to
Improwtwiest not to Isessose speedily powered of the sect*
of mesh tovracoss." The Dibits do-s not give Its mac, hy
ft Mein th.t the meet of tie Armstrong mace he
remedy been discovered.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

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MII:ITART MOVEMENTS OF AUSTRIA.

BERNE, lt.ticx 16.
Mune of oonearipts from Lombardy are panting
from \ratable, through the* Canton Orisons into
Piedmont

The Austrian authorities have transported all the
public treasures, records, and registers to Sondrio,
chief town of the Valtaltain. s.

ST. PETERSBURG, WIDKUDAY.

Am imperial decree, dated March 10, prohibits
the exportation of horses from Rusin and the King-
dom of Poland scrota the Baropean frontiers. 4

TURKEY AND THE DANUBE.

KARLIIILLII9, MA/LC: 16.
Advicea hive been received from Constantinople
to the 9th inst.

The journals contain nothing new. Letters state
that in all parts of the Principalities preparations
are being made to offer resistance in case Prince
Couna's election should be cancelled.

The English ambassador expressed himself
strongly as to the necessity of making conosasiona
to the Rolll=llll.

The Governor of Bosnia writes that he has dis-
I covered an extensive conspiracy to bring about a
sew insurrection, which was on the point of break-
ing out, and which extended to Montenegro. The
Governor domande reioforoement&
The army of observation on the Danube Is in a
disorganised condition, and desertions, especially
among the Redifs, are extremely numerous. The
state of the finances is unaltered.

Disorderly bands have been committing plunder
in Candia, have insulted the English Consul, and
demanded his dismissal.

V" "7)* TOLAND.
THE SECRET SOCIETY PROSECUTIONS.
igiOVITIO TILZOILIPM.)
CORK ASSIZESIWanxrapAy.

Baron Orem*, Ea Ida charge to the grand jury
=day, mid—That Wildman Win to be sent up to than,
ciarging certain individuals with compaidag, imagiaingc
devising, wad intending to depose the Qum of the royal
honour sad earn et the imperial crone of the United Slag-
do= The armee was provided for by an act of Fulton=
passed In the year 1848. The amen to which this ad re-
lated wern predated, to the graft it, high trews ;
bat this act altered the previous law as far as related to that
crime, reduced it hem high =lda to felony ; likewise re-
duced the pmeidamsat hem that of dean. to transportatkm,
or gee, or impriemzemit, according to the nature of the mac
The conspiracy of which it was alleged the pine= named
in the indictment WIN members, wee dercribed (he said) be
Wined pats of the indictment in varions ways. They were
charged te be the oxabinatkin of a =min number of
peen= who had watered into an amociatlon called
the noels Soddy. The soda cireasserces in
the ems were that the primers were alleged to be
=cabers of the confederacy and dantgnatiea, sad
had thseeby become guilty of the amid despirecies
Ansa be the inAktenent. It would be perceived that the
prisoasrs became members of as illegal aserielatke, bound by
ca oath, the object of which was to renounce all allegiance
to the Qum, to make this °matey a deraceratie republic, to
take up lease whim called upon, mad to obey the commands
of the sapid= of that body. Ma kiedehip pointed out the
peediarides of the law with seeped to conspiracies, and re-
geed= the grand Jury to take this case into their immediate

In answer to Mr. Hagan, his lordabip said he Intended
taking up the Pbcesiz twee in the amnia& The greed
jury returned two true bills at 4 o'doek against Marty, Mo•
nagban, William O'Shea, Denis O'Sullivan, Mistimes
Downing, Dash' WWI* Jsrantila Dearivea. Roma and
Parke Doweing, ise bum sad law, that being the
&ergo hid sashed thiamin the Imilleterat

A latter from Twin dated Monday, says :—.O" The
arrival of Lot has been the signal for some diminution in
the supplyof theatrical eatertatomen.s in Twin. The two great
opera homes are still open, and the Begirt will continue se fur
some short time longer. NW Balls hu now nag the
tioteissesents eleven times, and means quite to have esta-
blished herself In the favour of a lighly lestidiotte public.
The improvement in h'r singing was very visible when
moo she had got over the nervounzese of the first night or
two, end Woos a tittle accutomed to the house, which I.
decidedly most unisueuralde to the voice. Oa Wednesday
next ohs wlll swear as Aldine in Mcasn's Dos Choosier."
The editor of the Delhi Gazette mentions that one
year has elapsed oboe he returned to rebuild Ms establish-
ment, which woe totally destroyed to the mutinies. Within
that tints be has reorganised the press, oustalsiishad his
paper, and obtained for it a circulation higher than it has
ever leeched before.

The Ceylon note. states that rice hu risen to
an szemeive price in all parts of the island, and in the
northern diellicte is unprowarable. Orders were seat by
telegraph!, Panetta kr heeled some argon, but the tele-
grams were sent le (Went. One firm ft Is said ham lost
thirty maisages in this feetakm.
The asked& Gazette oontains an order from Lord
Stanley, reviewteg the meet eorrespcadesce on the appoint-
meat of native Christians to onto,. The minister remarks,
"AA far ea can be Judged from the replies of the different
officers, the principle on which they have acted Is that the
applicant beat qualified kw the vacant situation should be
appointed, whatever might be his creed. This is the correct
principle which ought to guide public officers In the selection
of Individuals for subordinate employe:sage and it is
accordingly unntmesetry to issue any fresh codas for the
'Warta of the public (damn in the Braga Presidency in
this maitre."

The Kentaro oomplains that all the expenses of
Is Calcutta are inerearins. Houee rent la higher;
aerrente demand law wages; food I. (karat; and the cost
of leaping horns is exonalve. Calcutta, in fad, la rapidly
beocalsi one of the most expensive capitals in the world,
perhaps, If we except London sad Paris, the most expmedve.
Matters will beams worts yet, particularly in home rest.
There is no land Wt to badd co, ashes apeoulaton can
make an inroad Into the native tows.

In n latter triton Amaterdent we read:—" The
well-known traveller in Japan. Herr vim !Remit, who, aver
shire hie retain from the Far Had, his been residing
quietly at Bonn, on the Rhine, will leave that city in the
beginning of Alen, having received • most Sett:fug invite.
don to &swamps, the wily-eppointed Dutch =Writer
plenipotentiary in hie mutton to Japan. As this gentleman
has ridded seven yews in Japan, and is consequently
wdl-
acquainted with the lineage, is well as the mannere and
miner of that interesting °pastry, of which so little le
known in Europe, he will no doubt be • valuable acquisition
to the Dutch embesey, and will moreover All the appoint-
meat of one of the representatives or commistionere of the
Netherlands Kea ladle Trailer; Company."
MS GOVERNORSHIP OF HONG KONG.—Sir John
Howehres functions as Superiatendent of Trade having been
merged in those of the minister lately appointed to Pekin,
hie excellency will mare to h-ild the unpaid office of Governor
of Hoeg Kong, hitherto held in conjunction with that of
Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade in China. The
principal offion at Hong Kong will therefore, for the future,
discharge solely the datise of governor of that colony. The
first governor of Hong Hoag ander the new oysters will be
Kr. Heresies Rabbinate, at present Lantenant-Governer of
St. Christopher's, who distinguished lihneelf by his official
exertions in Inland, both during and after the famine, and
whore services wore rewarded by the banes appointment of
a Wait Indian govanceship, in 1854. He is now trans-
pared to a pillion where hie administrative talent. will
have a wider field of siendaest.—Tirmis.
A

dinner in aid of the building
food of the Bt. Thames Charteahotuie and Widen-lane
Schools was c Mimed yesterday at the Albion, when
about eighty gentlemen, the 'majority of .hoot wets cler-
gymen, ananded. The Dute of Wallington had been
sancionoed es chehman, bat unfortunately a 'sudden in-
dispoition confined his gram to hie loom, end in his absence
the chair was efficiantly filled by Selwyn Req., Q.C., sup-
sorted by the Lord Bishop of Dom, Rev. Mr. Roger.,
Captain Welter, Captain Roger., ft.N., de.

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BottnnintO LIKE • CANARD.—ne following
entraordin.ry ousted has ben publisbrd in • sulement to
• journsl of BOMA Area :—" Aria destroyed; 760,000
victim.- By the good ship the Petite Idersenbe, which has
just arrived, we melee LW diesstrossa hews that a greet pert
of the elty of Paris bar boon blown up. This ternble
catastrophe was canoed by • large pig of Wawa@
beadfos' who, by seams of seism, hos blown Into
the sir the sagitel of the civilised world I The Louvre
la completely destroyed I AU the primes of the
PAW* (1) pave rtiehed bootw`l4 go mini of **. ••
ancient Gotha! The Barrio-to of Bt. Arrant, Saint
Hosea ( f), aed Belot Dao4, and the superb theism of the
Opera are in ruins I The Emperor Napaeoe sad all his
meta who had salved a few dare lake* ia the capitel, lave
been buried beneath the roles of the Loam! The umber
of victim. lo I at'mated at 760,015, stecdif whom are lb. gloat
Sown olio a of the nee& cscet,i, and the Dotal:Cities of the
samples I The details of the diameter fill us with dismay.
Who on have barn the authors of snob a scene of dearer
lion—of each • crime P In Basked it is said that they were
members of tenet socloVer ; but some persona say they were
b.ndita as mentioned above."

SHOCKING MATH OF AX OFFICZIL—During the
last few days • painful excitement h.• bon caused in the
neighbourhood of Keneingtoktel consensuses of the Womb,
Me death of Cattail Mare Ward, of her Majeety's 10th
tiiment al Foot, and yof the Gybe Mee, • ace
the late Admha Ward,seder the /abodes dream-
Mame' : The deceased, who was &brat 114yeen el age, had
within the last few months re tuned from LW*, eines which
he bad mc.baeged hem the Ceybe Ram into the 10th
Regiment of Foot. Ha regd.' with kb widowed mother
end two staters in • villa, Dover-pleen Gleeoeshr-road,
Kumberton. On Friday morelag last, shot healed silt,
he was discovered by a demotic at the bottom of toe sm.
ships of a house in the Victoria.roid, Kensington; be was
spew-bloc, and bitediag from • soots wound on the had.
The police wee informed of the circumstance, sad Mr.
Webster, a sorgoin, promptly sanded. From • ht.*, fogad
epos his person, It wat sacertaintd who he was, and his place
of abode ; be was removed home, bat IN never rallied or re.
covered his senses, and died shout one ol.xk the some day.
iratirtlay evecing a loog inquiry bisok pitos before W.
Watley, the coroner, at the Obeweater Arms 'retell, Glee-
maw- rood, when evidence was given as to the atom bete ; is
addition to which ft wee proved that the deceased bet the Wei.
Renton Club, of which he wee a member. on Tuesday night,
in hie usual health and spirits, and quite sober. Fermi
frieeds of the deceased who were pr scat said they bed ao
doubt the &owed had, from the Whams of the road, mis-
taken bin residence and fe:l down the one, A verdict of
"Accidental death" was returned.
Ts. MURDER NEAR NEWARK. The culprit
/Whitt, who was smeared at Nottingham Amiii• last
week to be eitt fee the murder of Willbm Whatnot,
has hem nsptt d &aim \sr lisiatis *ram