The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1861.

kind was made. The House rapidly emptied, and
the aimless debate fell into the hands of the
juvenile members of the Opposition, such as Lord
ROBERT MONTAGU, who did ample justice to the
straggling and unmeaning character it now as-
sumed. It was clear there was to be no light after
all. There was, in fact, nothing before the House.
Still, through some inexplicable mismanagement,
though the leaden of the opposition were afraid
to strike, the most incapable and insignificant
of its members were allowed to display their will-
ingness to wound. Lord ROBERT MoNTAGu
was permitted to gratify his childish
passion for puerile and empty chatter, and
Mr. I..co.FIELti to luxuriate in that rich vein
of Milesian elo.luenee which, in accent and illus-
tration, unmistakably recalls the Groves of Blarney.
Again, we ask, what was the meaning of this
extraordinary demonstration ? As a party move-
ment it was below contempt. If the Conser-
vatives really entertain the opinions on the
Budget expressed last night, they are bound in
common decency and self-respect to oppose it.
It was denounced by various speakers as rash and
impolitic, as dangerous and revolutionary, as dis-
honest and immoral. But those who really believe
all this are bound to oppose the scheme at all
hazards in the most direct and decisive manner
possible. The Opposition, however, shrank from
this simple test of their sincerity. As a mere
expression of adverse feeling and opinion, the
debate was weak and damaging. It was, in
fact, little better than an impotent demon-
stration of antipathy to the CHANCELLOR of
the EXcHZQUaIt and his proposals, unsupported
by reasoning on the one hand, or action on the
other. And no kind of demonstration could be
more injurious and humiliating, none more
certainly defeats itself. While it exhibits his
opponents in the worst possible light, this perverse
and undignified opposition will only enhance
Mr. 41 r. trisrosz's triumph. This miserable oppo-
sition affords the right hon. gentleman a noble
opportunity of vindicating his scheme, which he is
sure not to lose.

Irbe Court.

A deputation of manufacturers from Watford on
the sallied of the owl duties had an interriew with Hr G.
Commall Lewis yesterday at the Hoene-office. The depu-
tation consisted of Mews. T. IL *!hate, I Tideombe, and
J. aad J. G. South.

Visastet Bury, M.P., and Mr. Hundss, M.P., transacted
business with the Right Hoe. T. Milner Gibson, at the
°face of the Hoard et Trade yesterday, on the lathiest of
Kirkwall Harbour Extension.

Lord Bury had as iateryit7W with the Right Hoo. T.
Ildoer Gibees, with regard to the Harbour of Refuge at
Wiek.

A deputation of licensed vietwillers had an interview yes-
terday with the Chancellor of the &chequer at his otiloial
ruddeace in Downing street.
A deputation from Birmingham, in reference to the pro.
posed bischar,;ed Prinmers Aid Bill, bed an interview with
tie Right Hoa. Mir Cornewall Lewis yesterday at the
Honne-offl ee.

Her lfajesty's Commi.sioners for tho International Exhi.
bilious of lini2 held a meeting .t their offices in the Strand
yesterday.
The Building Committee held a meeting at South Ken.
slegtoo Yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Woods.
Despatches were seat to the Governors of Canada Dad
Newfoundland.

We ue requested to state that the Countess de
• party,whieh was to hare taken place at Coventry
Been en the 25th last., is unavoidably postponed on sc-
um* eke, ladyship's continued iadispaition.
The Dule and Duchess of Manchester are ex-
pelled in town in a few days trues Knobolton Castle,
ifistingdonshire, for the season.

The Earl au! Cuuntcaa of Donoughmore hive
arrived at their maiden*, in South Audlepetreet from
Ireland for the term

Lord and Lady Woreley have arrived at their
rosiiisse is Portiors-oqou• for the moos.

Lord James sad lady Rachel Butler have ar-
rived at their residence in Ecclaeton•gaare from Dram.
combs Dint* Ireland.

Lady Call's first dance will take place on Friday,
May 10. _ _

The Hon. C. 8. Vomiter bee arrived in town
tom Myths.

Sir deorge Broke Middleton an:l Lady Middleton
ban arrived at Southern, on their way to Paris
We (Tines) are requested to contradict, on autho-
rity, the rumour which has been circulated to the effect
that the Bishop at &whin has seceded to the church of
Reran

At a meeting held on Saturday hat the Bishop of
Oxford announced that the Right Rev. Dr. James Chap-
ama, Bishop of Colombo, had resigned that see, and would
return to England as soon as his successor is nominated.
The bishopric consists of the island of Ceylon, comprising
24,44 A square miles, and a population of 1,730,000. There
ars about 50 clergymen of the church of England in the
Weed. The eft is worth 2,0001. a year, payable from the
Wound Bishopric Fund.

The publications of the Arundel Society for the
current year consist of • chromo-lithograpb, from a
water-colour drawing by Signor Mariannecci, after the
fresco by Domenico Gbirlaudajo in the Church of Stma.
Triniti, at Florence ; also a " Memoir of Ohitiandajo," by
Mr. Lisped ; a chromolithograph of Use head' of • bishop
and a prime from the above-named fresco; two wood en-
gravings of the " Ascension" sod the "Dement of the Holy
Spirit," concluding the aeries from the &moms by Giotto
la the Arena Chapel, Padua ; also the third sad concluding
part of the " Notice of Giotto and his Works in Padua,"
explanatory of the wood eogravings published from the
seventh to the twelfth year (1655-1860) inclusive, by Mr. J.
Ituakie.

A Dublin letter of Montlay says :—" It is now
He 22nd of the month, and we hare not been favoured
with a mingle April shower' yet. The ground is baked,
and the roads are covered with duet."

Mr. Hume intends, iu the event of Mr. Henry
Berkeley's motion for leave to bring in a bill to authorise
vetiog by ballot at elections of members to serve in par-
liament being carrials to move "That the provisions of
tie bill be estoodeil to the taking of votes in this house."

It is said in official circles that a new Belgian
treaty et commerce with France was signed yesterday at
Paris.

By the mail of yesterday evening a letter was
forwarded by the Lord Mayor to the British Ambeswidor at
Paris, appealing through his Excellency to the British
community at Paris and in other parts of France on behalf
of our suffering fellow subjects in India. Similar applies.
tams will be made tithe British communities at other places
cm the Coatitiest, and at Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria.

In a letter from Naples of the 18th we read :
" Father Cavan's Sunday evening meetings, • sort of
sembreligious, sami.pohtieal reunions, at which man at the
English attend, besides a numerous Italian audience, have
attracted the notice of the police, who, if I am correctly in.
!avowal, have warned the rev. gentleman that, however
much the law may permit of religious polemics, it does not
choose to liana, or rather Signor Silvio Spavents dais
not choose, any politiad controversy to be mingled up with
the preaching. To defies the niceties of the law in
its datinctioas between public discussion of political
subjects and private ainveration. upon such subjects
is sot very eaay. Mazy persons in Napes, it would appear,
are living under the delusion that, so long as they do not
diamagnete treason, they may discuss polities both publicly
and privately in any =nom they please. It appears, how-
ever, they are mistaken, and the sensitiverien of the police
most not be hurt, Certain it is that Father Gavazzi's
goariteligious meetings would, if put a stop to, be a great
lots to those who object to spend their Sunday evenings at
tie theatres. AtOtllliN: they are with the eloquent preacher's
litpeed of the fallacies of the Romish church at one
mo-
tae followed afterwards bya cloak of polities at :woodier."
LORD MACA MAY. —The admirers of Lord Mac-
aider will be ratified to learn that the original autograph
of
ths whole ci the fifth and hat volume of his History a
wised boa been &write: in the manuscript department
of the Bikini' itomaim awl • portion of it placed to a glass
atm he pubis impessioa. —Notes cad games.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE PAPAL QUESTION.

The ItuUpeodonce Beige of yesterday evening
states positively that the negotiations between the
courts of Paris and Turin for opening the gates of
Rome to the Italians are approaching a favourable
conclusion. Count Vimercati proceeded lately to
Turin, bearing the conditions upon which the
Emperor Napoleon is disposed to recall his troops.
The Emperor will consent to the substitution of
Italian troops for the French, provided the title
of occupation rests absolutely the same. King
Victor Emmanuel must pledge himself conse-
quently to respect the present territory and the
sovereignty of the Pope, to defend them against
every attack, and not to change the title of the oc-
cupation but with the Holy Father's con-
sent. These conditions, it is said, have been
agreed to at Turin ; but nothing is said
as to their acceptance at Rome. With the Italian
troops in the capital, the abdication by the Pope of
his temporal power is regarded as easier of attain-
ment. Nevertheless, there are formidable difficul-
ties in the way. "If it be true," observes the
indipewlance, "that certain cardinals understand
the necessities of the situation sufficiently to be
dispoaed to seek the safety of the spiritual papacy
in the sacrifice of a temporal sovereignty which
it is impossible to preserve, it must not
on the other hand be forgotten that the ma-
jority of the Pope's councillors are resolved to com-
promise all rather than consent to this necessary
renunciation. A proof of this may be seen in the
act by which the Pope has already appointed his
provisional successor (Cardinal Wiseman) iu cer-
tain definite eventualities—an act which was men-
tioned in our Paris letter yesterday, and the exis-
tence of which is positively confirmed to-day."
The indtpendance has on this latter subject a
communication from Paris, in which we read :
" One of my colleagues has given you some
account of a decision of the Holy Father, approved
of by twenty-one cardinals, constituting Cardinal
Wiseman, the primate of England, the representa-
tive of the papacy in the case of the death, or the
forced or voluntary abdication of the present
sovereign pontiff: My own information entirely
agrees with this, and I am enabled to give you
further details. It is not Cardinal Antonelli who
would be entrusted, as might have been thought,
with the details relative to this decision, but
Cardinal Alfieri, who, in the event of the Pope's
death, would convoke the conclave. The number
of supporters of this arrangement was much more
than twenty-one, and amongst the hesitating and
dissentient there were not more than five or
six cardinals."

superior officers, the majority of whorl) were in
favour of accepting the policy of Count Cavour.
"The friends of Garibaldi hope that he also Will
now adhere to that policy."

that she is a " moral prisoner" of the
Jasuits, who have shaved her head preparatory
to her becoming a nun professed, and he speaks of
two Jesuit priests who abused the Bluth family and
the French judges. I must say, however, upon
M. Bluth's own showing, that whatever may have
been the misdeeds of the Jesuits at the first, his
sister does not now seem to be under any sort of con-
straint or mental incapacity. She is of full age, is
living in free England, and deliberately tells her
brother that she will not go back to her family.
It may be a said case, but Ido not see how it can
be treated as a public grievance.
If the prosecution of the Duke d'Aumale's
pamphlet should be proceeded with, of which there
is some doubt, it is said that M. Jules Favre will
defend the publisher, M. Dumineray.