The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY MMHG, JANUARY 23, 1868.

EXPRESS FROM R

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PARIS, WIESIBIDA.T EVINDIG.
The debate in the Senate on the Army Bill
begins to-morrow. Notwithstanding all that is
said about certain senators being desirous of giving
its serious and independent examination, I shall
be surprised if M. Troplong does not get a final
vote by Saturday. Meanwhile the Emperor is
understood to have fixed upon a pattern for the
uniform of the Mobile National Guard. It is to be
a light grey coatee, withtwo rows of brass buttons ;
trousers of the same colour, with a scarlet stripe
down the seam, and a grey shako, edged with red

A grand banquet wee given Mat evening, under I
the maples& d the Bristol Comervative Association, to her
Maisety's Yirdsliere. The Bail of Derby end the Chan-
g/elle, et the Bminquer ware enevcidebb, ablest, but
reiregie Wes present were Lord Stanley, M.P., Mr. G.
Herd:, ILP., Sir J. Pakiegtoe, ILP., Colonel Taylor,
ILP., Lord Tredegar, Lord Northwioh, Sir L. Pak, ILP.,
Sir M. Loges, 3LP., Sir B. A. Lechmere, ILP., Sir J.
Meld, ALP., Colonel Hogg, ILP., Mr. A. A. Bathurst,
Mr. Neville-Grenville, M.P., Maker Paget,
X.P., Sir A. L. Hood, M.P., Sir G. S. Jen.
kiesoa, Sir W. Miles, Berl Sashimi, Mr. B. N.
Fowler, Mr. W. P. Gore Langton, ILP., Colonel Tyler,
Colonel Somme, M.P., Mr. Sampson Lloyd, Archdeacon
Semiotic, Mr. W. B. Ferrand, Sir B. Slade, Colonel
Bruce, Mr. Grenville Somerset, Admiral Tryon, Colonel
Blabbing', Mr. S. T. Hollwell, Colonel Luttrel, Mr. R.
Rolled, ALP., Mr. J. S. Pekington, the Mayor of Bristol,
i Mr. Food, M. TAM. to.
The Beheld lienewsm, IL G., preided.
The hanisee trek Nom in the ha of the Bristol Voles.
leer Corp., whisk was very isidefelly deeoralied for the
oartsica.
The =mil Wel tomb having loess astlialiNdollll as.

embroidery.
There is a bell at the Tuileries to-night, and to-
morrow the Emperor purposes to go to Compiegne
for a couple of days' sporting.
The Marquis de Maisons has sold his collection
of pictures to the Duke d'Aumale for 28,0001.
According to the French code a child born of a
widow within 300 days after her husband's death,
is reputed legitimate. There are any medical
men Who peftliiifficoWEVM Bunt ponit ffrTiel
no period of gestation was ever so lung. The
Appeal Court of Angers has just decided (over-
ruling a judgment of the Tribunal of the First
Instance), that a child born 300 days and six hours
l and a half after the death of the mother's husband
was not legitimate. Assuming the scientific men
who look upon the extreme allowance of 300 days
as a legal fiction to be wrong, this may be a very
hard case. When it comes to such a very fine
point, the decision of a jury would be more satis-
factory than that of an iron rule.
The much prosecuted Courtier Francais was
again condemned yesterday, but this time only in
• fine of 200 fr., for simply publishing the fact that
Captain Penn, of the 3rd Spahis, had brought an
action against them for a libel without having
first obtained his consent to make it known in
print that ho had done so. Such, it seems, is
French law. When this matter was disposed of
the case of Captain Perin against the Courtier
Francais, for publishing M. Leon Mine' letter,
charging him with having, by way of punishment,
tied a soldier to his horse's tail, in Mexico, was
called on. Counsel for the Courrier Francais asked
for an adjournment, in order that the Minister at
War might inquire into an affair which belonged to
his jurisdiction. The court refused the application
on the ground that the Minister at War, by a letter
dated Jan. 19, had certified that the facts imputed
to Captain Perin had been already called to the
attention of the War-office, and that it had not
been thought necessary to bring him to a court-
martial. Thereupon counsel for the Courtier Fran-
cais exercised the privilege of " making default,"
and the case will be called on next week for
judgment.
The Bourse remains without any prominent fea-
ture. " Discounts " keep the Rento in a state of
equilibrium. The latest quotations show a varia-
tion of only sc. Italian fell 421 c.

THE ARREST OF MR. GEORGE F. TRAIN.

(raw' 001 i own coawzapownswr.)

CORK, TUESDAY ECEPING.
Mr. Train was released from custody this morn-
ing after a detention of three days in the county
gaol. His arrest appears to have been the result
of local indiscretion, and not authorised by the
higher powers ; at least so the event seems to indi-
cate, fur as soon as the authorities in Dublin were
made acquainted with the grounds on which he was
detained instructions were forwarded to Mr. Hamil-
ton, R.M., acting on which be this morning
had an interview with Mr. Train, and formally
discharged him from custody. Mr. Hamilton, in
restoring Mr. Train to liberty, merely required of
him an assurance, which was freely given, that he
would do nothing while in this country to pro-
mote Fenianism. Immediately after his release
Mr. Train drove to the Imperial Hotel, sent for
the American consul, Mr. Eastman, and before
ordering breakfast, prepared and forwarded to
Downing-street a claim for 100,0001. compensation
for the outrage he had suffered. The specific
grounds for this claim are that Mr. Train has
been damaged in his general commercial re-
putation, and especially in his capacity as
chairman of the Credit Foncier of America—a com-
pany of which he states he is the creator and guid-
ing mind. Mr. Train has also addressed the Ame-
rican minister, Mr. Adams, whom he expects to
endorse and insist upon his demand. He says that
he will make the British government pay and
apologise also for the insult offered through him to
American citizenship. At a later hour in the day
Mr. Train gave interviews to the reporters of the
leading local journals, to whom he was most com-
municative, furnishing them with full details of his
speculations and political prospects in the United
States, his business in Europe, and his intentions
as regards his future proceedings. Mr. Train de-
nies—and is in this borne out by other testimony-1
that any papers of a conipromiaing character were
found in his possession on his arrest. He had no-
thing about him to excite suspicion but a bundle of
American papers—the Boston Pilot, Neir York
Freeman's Journal, the Irorld, and other journals,
containing reports of his speeches on various
topics. In some of these speeches England is
soundly rated, and Fenianisin lauded to the
skies, but he asserts that as an American citizen
he had a perfect right, in America, to ex-
press his opinions of England in whatever
language he chose. In his interview with the re-
porters he complained of his arrest as a most un-
generous as well as unconstitutional act upon the
part of the British Government. " Charles
Dickens," he said, " abused the Americans
well; he has returned to America, and they
are making a demigod of him. I have
abused England, and the moment I put my
foot on British territory, the government
arrests me. Is this generous r' One of the docu-
ments amongst Mr. Train's papers was a printed
slip headed " The Revolution ; clear the way ; the
Train is coming," a title which probably aroused
the suspicions of the detectives. It is, however, a
very harmless matter, merely containing select ex-
tracts front his letters and speeches, and a few of
his epigrams. Mr. Train's arrest has made him a
sort of popular hero here, and with true Yankee
'cuteness, he intends to turn his popularity to
account, and to make money by it. He proposes
to " stump" the country—that is, to give a amiss
of lectures in various places, beginning with Cork.
The discipline of she gaol excited- the strongest
feelings of disgust in the mind of the cap-
tive. He was greatly astonished to find him-1
self deprived of books and papers ; foe'
bidden to send out lettere without the penalties
of the governor
compelled
of light after *
certain hour ; to live on gaol diet, and,
in short, to conform to the rigid and irlussme rules
to which political prisoners are subjected. His
leisure was occupied chiefly in writing a series of
protests against his detention, and letts to a
friend of his—Mr. Georg! Bemis, of New York—
complaining of she hardships which he was made
to endure. In one of these he waxes pathetic:
"Make no effort for my release," he says, "let
me die here. What matters one hfs."

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MAJESTY'S MINIBTEES net fa an imumeesisuee whfeh is the lOW
it= UM MAWS FOR PORTSMOUTH AND ram
BANQUET TO RIB
AT /BRISTOL. will not Intim= esef Bat, inmedissites the
tonium i CONSTITUENT&
Imil of discharged foreign Mien tuned late efessiftem
tors-than Tomah' two great ethiesti at paellemeatery
oontroversy-the church and the lent. (Hear. bear.)
Now, as to the lira of those, you will excess me if, in the
position I bold, I say aothing at present. It is perfectly
clear that if any legislation is to Ulm plan-I don't say
that it mike-effecting la any way the polithel position
of the various ecclesiastical bodies in Ireland, such legisla-
tion ought not to be the work of a dying Parliament, re-
turned by a constituency which is Resit about to be con-
siderably modified. (Hear.) And in any mem have this to
remember as practical nien,thateiten erepelestants 'swell
u catholles in behead, who, though numaicelly few, are
Racially powerful, and that it is smithies possible, in
endeavouring to conciliate two opposite e parties,
both.
to find
that you have only succeeded in =skin ene of
(Laughter and cheers.) Well, gentlemen, if I were not
wearying you-(eries of " No, no ")-then is that other
question of the land epee which I should like to say a
word or two. I want to see that question folly and tho-
roughly argued out in mellowest, without disguise on any
side as to what is meant. The demand constantly put for-
ward, as you all know, is that of compensation to be
granted
to the tenant for improvements which be has
made, That, under paper safepards, is well eamigh.
This CHAIHHAS proposed "tie Army, Navy, Yeomanry, settled
aelitfelrike Ntddildir I -US ~ Yew- Wow
and Volunteers." settled that point, the fundamental caner of difference
Si, J. PALINOTOII, who was received with loud cheers, still remains. What, I won't say the Irish peasant, but a
reepieded to the Met. considerable number of the Irish peasantry, want is not
Admiral TRYON achaowledged the toast on behalf of the compensation for improvements, which not one in a
hundred ever makes, but to be transferred without pay-
Navy.
Colonel Larense responding for the Volunteers, meet from yearly tenants into owners of the soil. (" Hear,
said that they w e, in
ere ready sad willing, and were well hese," and cheers.) Now that is a demand which I cannot
dead and disciplined, but he was bound to say that he conceive under any circumstances that a British legislator
hoped and trusted their services in the field would not be can anent to. (Loud cheers ; and a Votes-" Certainly
required, at least at present, foe their armament was of not.") If the principle is good for Ireland it is good for
I that obsolete chmenter that is the field they would be England also ; and IBM thin that, if the operation is to
Mises mem. be performed ones it will have to be repeated indefinitely,
°shwa Nmomim ammonia, K 2., next gave .. Th. for the tenant tamed proprietor might of coule
„sublet,
health of the bishops and clergy of the diocese. of Glue- and if I know anything of Irish nature, he • y
raster and Bristol and Bath end Wells." will-(hear, hear)-and than you will have • fresh
clue of tenants at will under the same conditions es
The Venerable Archdeation Demme in acknowledging
those who existed before, with only this difference, that
therenifee„:,..„'"ierd, „Ithd di:es:mime Led effsidtheerYful' meandinhertherefor ihae you will have removed a may of landlords who were toler-
bly well to do, and substituted for them others who will
reformed church of England. It was because be eaw in a
„be needy, and consequently very exacting. (Cheers.) Nor
the Reform Act of 1867 that affinity la things tempera
must you forget this, that under • system of innumerable
which he found in the reformed church is things spiritual,
small ownerships you would have the very worst evil of
that he welcomed it ; bat be most own that
the Ireland of old days repeated and inteneified-I mean
there were points in that sot which be would
the continual subdivision of holdings, and the consequent
rather have seen omitted. He did not like representation indefiniteuwatipikaiew of paupers. (Hear, beer.) Every
by =storagses • there wee no principle in it. And, further-
landlord' good or bad, for his own Interest endeavotas to
more, he ho'uld like to see household suffrsge carried
checkcheck that tendency to subdivision. Tatra away the check,
into the counties, and he trusted he skald live to see it
and in 20 years' time I will undertake to say you would hare
done. (Laughter.) In the meantime, however, he was
• population doubled in number, every one of them sup-
thenkful for what he had got in the last session, and he
sup-
ported exclusively by the soil, all of them, therefore, trust-
hoped that all good conservatives would unite in support. ing to the potato ;
V°
leg the government who had carried the wt. and when that fails, as from tine to
tiros it always will, then look out for the famine of 1847
Otheeel from, M.P., then, in highly eulogistic terms, over mein. (" Hear, hear," end oh„rui Well, gentle,
moped the toast of the evening, " The Health of her men, I must ask you to pardon me for baying gone into
Maleety's Ministers," which was received with great
~ these details ; but Ireland is the question of the hour, and
6"1"1"164 three "me being
given for
Lard pleb/ and I only wish I could tell you es clearly what ought to be
Mr. Disraeli. . done, as I think I can tell you what ought not. But this
11 Lord STAMM', on rising to acknowledge the toast, wee Ido say, don't /et us call in quacks-(loud sheen)-don't
I warmly cheered. In the course of his speech he said- let us fly to desperate remedies became the doctors cannot
k that I have been MD' find out an instant and • perfect cure for a disease which
Some of you may thin
it is no lees un- Mel long &tending. (Cheers.) Don't let as buy present owe,
guise in what I have said, and perhaps
guise to hope, as I do hope, that the next two or three
years may not pass away without leaving behind them even if we could doit, at the cone an memo= future mis-
chief. Let us set right what we see and believe to be wrong,
something which shell he net less memorable then the bat let us do that for the satisfaction of our own con-
Reform Bill of 1867 in the tonal history of the country. asiancea, and nos as a mocaslon to mere inese and mama.
(Hear.) By that something I men • wise, a large, and • (Cheers.) Having doue that, let us take OUT stand ; let us
well considered meatus for the duration et the people. appeal to English ail to loyal Irish feeling to support us ;
(Loud cheers.) That is • climates with which the con- and so abide the into. There are many other topics ou
smaller' party are not one whit behind their oplue which I might be tempted to dwell, but I have already
nervy in the desire, and, as I believe, in the power detained you longer than I meat or wished. We are
to gal. (Cheers.) Lord Derby was the founder of that beginning a new year under circumstances certainly not of
system of national teaching which still, though in • rnodi- unmixed prude y'
but still circutustanees which give
fled form, subsists in Ireland. My friend Sir J. Peking- us fair reason, I think, to look forward with hope
ton, who site beside me, long ago took up the question as it to the future. (Cheers.) We have no doubt •
relates to England; others of us have helped according to depressed, and as its consequence we have tem.
the measure of our ability; sad I think the present time permit, a declining revenue ; bet those who are
is favourable. (Cheers.) There is an absence of extreme "et able to judge upon etch matters believe that the
views which it is satisfactory to see. There ii • willing. worst is over, and that thinp are gradually, though perhaps
aces to give and take, and a tendency to accept what the einwip, improving. (Cheers.) Then there is the Abyr
accepter may think only a second beet plan if he can't get
that which he prefers, which looks like Mine= (Cheers.) 'yet= war-end very vexatious it is ; but we are beginning
I think to see that the difficulties of that expedition have
You don't hear on the outlined a claim which was put UT' been greatly over-rated in public opinion, and though I
ward some thirty years ago, that the clergy should have am afraid that in runt of mousy it will be v sr, sawn-
it all their own way, and no one maw that we refuse to ties, yet I think we have every rea t
uth
mat it will be attained
to believe not merely
nonconformists a perfectly fair and equal treatment ; and that success will be attained,
b
on the other hand, there are very few persons who. after at a comparatively small oost of life. (Chem.) If we
the experience of the last :a years, would desire to turn look to Europe, I would say that, notwithstanding that
out the clergy from the management of those schools, rest incr...e of continental armament' which we
which I will venture to say no ulna in England has done have all observed, and which we must all regret,
ea much to found and to keep up. (Hear, hear.) The notwithstmling that, I do not think that there is
"eat" wide" proposed in 185° is "ad sod buried ; the any reason to feu an eaTly disturbance of the general
voluntaries are giving up their objections perseveringly „see. (Neer, bear, and cheers.) Great armaments may
against all state interference, and few, if any, se for a sometimes be intended as a menu" to "he
distraist-a pre-
r Mks, brit
eentraliaed state administration. Of course I don't say very often also they are merely • sign of
that the matter is perfectly easy ; there will doubtless be caution taken against real or imaginary danger. Even
details, and very important details, to deal with ; there will these wretched Fenian troubles are not altogether without
be difficulties to contend against; but there are no dif. their compensation : they bus called oat the English
Amities, so far as I can sec, that need be ee-
spirit of loyalty and order ; they hare shows us how few
, girded es insuperable, if we may go with good
will to the work. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, there is and feeble are those would-be disturbers of the public
puce. And they have shown us something which is not
another subject on which I fear I cannot speak in an less important, that together with •a firm determination to
equal tone. It is one which I suppose, at the present
moment, is hardly ever absent from the mind of any per- is in the English mind no feeling of blind
Pat down outbreaks if they should oreur, there
son who tab" part tit public affairs. I mess the painful, sumer, no hasty or indiscriminste panic, but
the dangerous, and, to us la =pursue at least, the am- rather • feeling of mingled perplexity and pity-
creditable state of things which unhappily continues to
pity for the Ignorant men who have bees doped
exist in Ireland. We have, indeed, in that country a and misled into etinie_perptexity to understand how end
strange and perplexing problem to solve. I suppose there
why we should be so much detested by perms to whom
never was • time when Englishmen of all parties and all we wish nothing but good. (Cheers.) It only remiss
awes were mere "lie" t° give ail reasewahl° "sheike for me to thank you in my own name and that of my W-
M Irish demands, and, even as far es an be done without leagues for the reception of this evening, and to same
national injury, to humour the feelings and prejudices you that what is here seen and heard in Bristol will not
at the Irish people. abler, beer.) The material be wen forgotten. (The noble lord resumed his seat
condition of Ireland is not badcertainly it is far amidst loud and prolonged cheers.)
above the average a what it b 66 be" in farmer Sir Geo= E JENK 'NSW( proposed ~The House of
years ; the peasantry are better fed, better clothed, and Lords," which Was acknowledged by Earl BATHURST.
better paid than they were 20 years ago. (Hear, hurl sir W. lamas, whose popularity with the conservatives
The more educated class share absolutely and without of Glonseetershire was shown by the prolongedoses al
them
restriction in the advantages of British citiaenshie i with which he wee received, proposed' TM M
nothing is wanted except a little pesos and security for cowwome
eweeeneel million. of Brie" "Pita to star into "a 6 Mr. HARDT, who was received with prolonged cheering,
reentry as English wealth her poured into Scotland, and responded. The right hon. gentlemen nude nn
showed
se p=
em
if
cweththel every
day
to pour
into coloniescoloniesthat are
ion= defence of the government, sad upesially sho
separated from us by the breadth of the globe. Yet it that it wig absolutely necessary to
parli settle t t
he ref
was
roam
would be idle to deny that discontent is very widely spread ; question-to which every party, sad amen itself,
that disaffection is not unfrequat, sad that there is • pledged-on • broad and durable basis, and not in a way
portion °I the population-1 hope not a um" which would have given occasion to a renewed and even
side/able portion, but still • portion-who re- &Diem. eiriteti„. He was glad
that
is in the prese
way eat
geed geed their connexion with England as a bur- „me of the ~.„nti.i_with Feat awns, • •
den Tether than as a benefit. Well, that is • miserable Wets, with stndirma rife in Ireland-every sense if
state of things, and yet, when we look ter • remedy, who political grievances removed. There were many
is there that oan give us an intelligible answer (Hear, questions-such as education, the relations of capital and
hear.) I don't undertake to do it ; all I venture to at. labour, the friendly societies, too often a sourer of cola hi-
tempt is to throw out a few hints, which, if they have no ssesd of s boon to the wore*: ewe" Be deprensted term.
novelty, at least can do no harm. In the first plea don't lation upon themwith huts or precipitation, arid reminded
letamalgam., be freetweurestusees party-whom fact that there ia auPartY the philosopher' who expected that the new parliarnest
-sod 'he
"elm-ere— "1"-- cos' would find • remedy for all these matters that they would
minions will satiety. (Cheers.) Thus who go in for.• @speeds bare to discuss all these questions sensibly sad prectiatlly
national existence, or repeal of the union, which practi• indenim he regarded rather as a pig" end =moues
cally moss to the same thing, are asking for what they
„,_ than a danger, which the west wind had brought like • flight
never can obtain-Geer)-andin plain terms. it fa only y.„,,t6Le kt, 64"6"6„.; of locusts from • distant country. They said they meant to
fell them seth; British•---- ----_-_,...‘----,,,---::-,_,,-e-z save Ireland. They were driving from it trade, agriculture,
not allow --- --r- w ..." ''''' ''' sad everything that it seeded. Hs feared, however, from
pieces in virtue of any fantastic theories, nee because ".
iii„.„. ____, ~,. Bad 8„,..1i with respect tw wk.
mete politicians may have talked madviesily about the
issica""" "'....-rir.--,7,:-.„; rheas questiow., instead haw
sacred
rase of weeiewlithi as "'Plied toother "eat tee. diseased for their own saks,would become • battle ground
balsa and England are inseparable now and foe even
..., ........,..s aue ha woad „... them to unite in wapprk.
(Loth them) Then, spin, there is mother mum of dire z governmentrr,_— „.„.in.t"leii-such etteww„
turbanor, which is in its character, sad which we may .A 7 witi:srothecTosTta followed, and proweetwt taw
fairly allow
for
ea
being lthel7 to Pa" away d itself-I
proceedings, which were of the met enthusiastic cdur
mesa the return here of Irish Animism who Dave Mira maw esionboak to slate hour.
part is the great civil war ca the other rids et the As-
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Latin. Every war--every greth war-leaves behind it •
residuum of men unfitted for )wets pareats ;fa el Tan WIDOW OR firisan•wr Bart.—no nom-
_inergo and eenrige. cad milder of life. Takes as • Melee fermi for raising • fund far the grid. or, el SW
whole, end materleg the somber el the freese id irA.lneleigisit_ IPAlD2,4ol:l4.Zutra=
espied, Ido net think the properties el lima as =Tarr; the pen=Wei burr' i Wwwiewr„:
elms is the Umfi•l Sisals his boa sot &Ida t =, roaeliiid-aIIUMB-;111114 will MAIO taW %Aiwa/0
still there are • good may el them, nod me see widow The a method* MK Ms Weirihkon •sh •k!
limed with the mere d •
se* • kw et ken bum isath.

Mr. W. H. Stone and Mr. Serjeant Gamslee
addressed a large meeting of their euppoeters, at
SR Geonge's Hall, Peres, cc Tuesday' evening.
Ur. Alderman ENANUIL proposed and Mr. B•imit
seconded, a motion declaring that the members were
entitled to the confidence and support cd the testing.
Mr. lIBBDILL, a oonserratire, moved se an amendment,
" That this meeting epees its disapproval of the
Motions opposition offered by Mr. Stone to the peeing of
• liberal and comprehensive measure of reform fntroduced
by the government last 1.111100, and of Mr. Serjeant
Gesslees repeated exhibitions, which tended to make
Portsmouth the laughing stool: of the country at law
and this meeting is of opinion that Messrs. Stone and
j Geese have utterly neglected the interests of the
borough, and that they are not entitled to the confidence
of their constituents."
Great confusion followed the reading of this amendment;
but on the question being put the resolution was carried
bye large majority.