The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-12 00:00:00

THE SON, LONMiN, MONDAY EVENING-, MARCH 12, 1866.

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likely to li-ethe most prominent,
feature -of the RUSSELL Ref orga Bill,
ifnoitt tihse
worth
while to examine into the opinions of one of the
recognised organs of the Whig party, as recently
expressed in a very able article.
of the Franchise in
In an essay on the Extension
the current number of the Edinburgh Review, the
writer begins, as we might have expected, by
labouring hard to remove the stigma of delay and
indifference from the shield of our present Pre-
mier. He attributes a good deal of the inaction I
to the natural rebound of the public mind from the
excitement of the last generation, to the great re-
milts achieved in 1832, which have left few
grievous abuses unredressed or acknowledged ;
and to the ill-advised efforts of those
. agitators who have tried to identify Par-
liamentary Reform with a complete disorganisa-
tion
of our social system and a servile imitation of
the political constitution of other countries. The
Englishman, averse to change, and proud of his
national history, feels something like an old man
when taught by one of the rising generation, and is
very much inclined to believe that he can teach
the schoolboy more than the schoolboy can teach
him. The -writer of the article before us says truly
enough that the examples of America and Australia
have been frequently introduced on both sides, but,
in fact, they cannot actually serve as either models
or warnings, since the whole constitution of things
is different. "The orders and gradations of society
are engrained in all our associations, bound up with
our history, fixed deep in our habits and memories.
No laws can root them out, no act of Parliament
can supersede them. Thus it is the influence of
tradition which gives so much stability to our con-
stitutional mechanism ; and this is the reason why
it cannot be transplanted. We cannot create an
old people, or old associations, or an old aristocracy,
or the pride of old memories. The Reform
Bill of 1832 did nothing to uproot or diminish these,
but only brought back the Constitution to
its ancient form, and restored to its functions
their legitimate action. The extension of the mea-
sure, so far as the franchise is concerned, will be
simply following the same course, and without doubt
with the same result." Arguing from these premises,
the writer contends that the admission of a large pro-
portion of the working classes to the franchise would,
in reality, leave the relative positions rof filings very
much as they are. Working men, he says sensibly
enough, are very much like those above them. They
will not all give their votes one way any more than
the men of any other rank do so. They will be
Liberals or Conservatives, as their humour or their
natural tendencies prompt them, and as quite as
likely to favour the one side as the other In fact
the Edinburgh Reviewer hints that it is quite pos-
sible the Conservatives may eventually gain an ac-
cession of strength from the votes of the working
men, owing to the preponderance of the employers
of labour on the Liberal side. Unfortunately for
the cause the latter have in many instances, which
not only affected the interests of the working men, but
their own interests, ranked themselves on the wrong
side, as on the measures for reducing the hours of
labour, excluding young children from laborious
employments, &c., &c. If these gentlemen are
taught a lesson by the class whose rights they
always loudly advocate when they do not interfere
with themselves they will perhaps profit by it.
The Ballot, to judge by the Edinburgh, finds no
place in the Reform category of 1866. It is spoken
of with a virulent animosity which betrays that
" the wish is father to the thought," of its insigni-
" The bugbear of the Ballot," says the
writer of the article referred to, " is no very awful
ral antnrn nnur Familiarity has robbed it of its
terrors,' and has bred the proverb iuw coucempu.
The sooner it is discarded from any position
in the Liberal creed the better. It was a
mistake from the first, and nothing will
now inspire it with animation." Undoubtedly
the Ballot is a " bugbear" to a good many
professing Liberals, as well as to their oppo-
nents ; for, although purity of election sounds very
well in declamation, and public virtue is always
rigidly upheld in the House itself, it would be very
inconvenient to apply it individually to every con-
tested election ! But, like other Reforms, it must
come sooner or later, and the more we enlarge our
constituencies the more necessary it will be, be-
cause if we are to allow money to be the pre-
ponderating influence in the boroughs, we
shall by increasing greatly the number of
electors throw the representation virtually
into the hands of those who can afford to
pay the most for it, thus restricting our members of
Parliament to the wealthiest classes, and failing to
secure the great object of Parliamentary Reform—
the full and fair representation of all political
opinions by an enlightened and independent com-
monwealth.

ficance.

Very brief has been the time which the wisdom
of Ministers has thought fit to allow for the con-
sideration of the Electoral Statistics. This is very
extraordinary, to say the least of it, and besides
very inconsistent ; because, what confidence can
any one have that the measure which Mr. GLAD-
STONE is to submit to the House to-night has been
founded upon a careful examination of the reports
upon which so much stress has been laid. It is to
be regretted that a different course has not been
adopted, and that a week at any rate was not allowed
for people to compare notes, and form opinions
upon the subject of these returns. As it
is, the public will only have formed a
very hasty opinion, and jumped at conclusions, as it
were, before proceeding to investigate the particu-
lars of the new Reform Bill of the RUSSELL
Ministry. It is so far satisfactory to find from these
tables that the working classes, as matters at present
stand, are more largely included among electors
than has been supposed by many. This is owingto
various causes, foremost among which may be men-
tioned the rise in rents that have gone on for some
time lately, until we find a very different
class now paying rents of ten pounds to
that which occupied these houses at the
period of the former Reform Bill. At present
the number of borough electors on the register of
England and Wales at ten pounds is 463,548, while
in 1832 the number was only 282,398. Those,
therefore, who have made no progress since the
time of the first Reform Bill in the matter of admit-
ting the working classes to the franchise, are now
convicted of their mistakes and exaggerations, which-
ever the case may be. Indeed, it is not likely that
any one really estimated how large an addition had
beenmen until
made to the voters of the kingdom of working
theyd n
perusedot these accounts. It• is satisfac-
tory in two respects, since it shows that such great
injustice ha
and deserving chess, and
done to this numerous
and also that those politicians
are wrong when, on the one hand, they dread any
increase to the list of voters, and, on the other, talk
as if striking organic changes would be made in
the constitution of the country and the administra-
tion of affairs if the electoral returns contained an
adequate addition of the labouring classes. Taking
all things into consideration, it seems impossible for
any measure to be successful that does not go
deeper and further than the one which the Ministry
has promised us for this evening. Merely to add to
the number of voters, without at th, same time at-

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tendir tg to the task of redistributingthe seats will be
at on ce absurd and inconclusive. Indeed it will leave
ma' tters in a worse state than they are at present,
ar ,d produce discontent in a great degree. The
S 3 nall and corrupt boroughs, which ought by rights
to be sacrificed, may possibly be inconvenient to
part with, but not the less must they be put aside
to allc w a more correct ana honest representation.
Another mistake that some earnest and zealous re-
formms make is to be one-sided in their calculation.
To obtain a fair representation the claims of
the counties should be considered as well as
those of the boroughs, neither more nor less,
but in proportion to their requirements. A
measure that accurately defines the wants of
the population and adjusts the balance of power
is not likely to affect any particular party in
the State, or to disturb the existing state of things ;
but it will be productive of general advantages, and
prevent the possibility of that agitation and excite-
ment so 'injurious to the interests of the community
at large, and that disaffection among classes which is
above all things to be regretted. Any measure which
falls short of these requirements can neither obtain the
confidence of the House nor the country; and a bill
that is partial, incomplete, or prejUdiced, will only
meet with the failure that it deserves, for tampering
with a question of so much moment is an insult to
the people.

It seems doubtful whether the everlasting affair
of the Duchies will be settled without an awkward
contretemps between the two great German Powers,
although it is constantly being stated that this and
that proposition has been made, and will most
likely bring matters to a satisfactory issue. On
the other hand, it is as often declared that if the
Prussian statesmen do not meet with the approval
of the Austrian Cabinet serious results will fol-
low. At present the appearances are against a
fearful solution of the mystery, and it is affirmed
that in Vienna persons are speculating upon the
probabilities of war between the two Powers.
The Generals that had to discuss the ques-
tion of a ivar with Prussia before the EMPEROR
were doubtless well informed of the nature of such
a struggle, and it is certainly a significant circum-
stance that Field-Marshal RENEDELL has been
telegraphed for from service. Of course, in the
event of such a catastrophe concluding the vexed
affair of the Duchy question, both countries will be
on the alert to secure allies of more or less value.
Much as this discussion between the two allies will
be rejected, it will form an admirable satire upon
the conduct and character of the two kingdoms and
their respective Cabinets. The chief sign of a
dangerous condition of things may be seen
in the fact that the Gastein Convention
is now made a fertile theme of discussion, and its
test is differently interpreted to meet the views of
the rival powers. According to the judgment of the
nations of Europe the terms of this Treaty conferred
a great privilege upon the two Powers who had made
the war and retired from it as conquerors. Expe-
rience has shown us, however, that nothing of the
sort has taken place, and that neither party can
agree as to where the power of Prussia begins and
the authority of Austria shall end in these coveted
places. Herr Von BISMARCK has over-reached him -
self, and trespassed too far upon the patience and
forbearance of Austria. The result has been that
the Vienna Cabinet has demurred to all his
recent proposals, and flatly contradicted all his asser-
tions as to the meaning of the convention. So far
as right and reason go the Austrian authorities
have the best of the argument ; for, read by the
tight of- Prussian justice, Prussia would virtually
rule in Holstein, besides actually doing so in Schles-
wig. It is difficult to judge of the case as it now
stands, but a mere unpronii.l.6 or affairs
could hardly exist than we see at present in Prussia.
On the one hand there is great discontent among
the people at the conduct recently pursued by the
Government ; and, on the other, the ally who has
been faithful so long to her interests, now threatens
to prove a very troublesome, if nob a very dangerous
adversary.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FllO3l OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.

A well-informed paper, in reference to the coming
Conference at Paris, says the Cabinet of Vienna is
determined to maintain the Treaty of Gastein until
a definitive resolution in regard to the Duchies
shall have been taken. The Prussian Cabinet still
decrees the annexation of the Duchies. Accounts
from Berlin to the Bth of March state that in his
reply to the address of the twenty members of the
Equestrian Order of the Duchy of Holstein, Count
Bismarck repudiated the personal union of Prussia
with the Duchies, but he openly declared himself
in favour of the union of the Duchies with Prussia.
He even announced that he should use his renewed
efforts to obtain the consent of the Austrian Go-
vernment to this proposal. This is the first time
that the Prussian Government has officially declared
itself in favour of the union of the Duchies with
Prussia. The letter of the Count de Bismarck is
more important from the fact that for several
weeks all diplomatic and official communications
between the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna had
entirely ceased.
The Legislative Body yesterday rejected the
amendment of M. Pouyer Quertier for a 2f. duty
upon corn by 192 against 37. M. Thiers resorted
to his favourite tirades against free trade, and de-
nied the increasing abundance in the produce of
corn made out by the statistics recently published.
He said that France was now exporting corn to
England, which was the cause of the low prices of
which the French agriculturists complained. The
Government said to the agricultural interest make
progress, but it ruined that interest. M. Rouher,
Minister of State. That is the question ; it is you
who ruins it. M. Thiers—l withdraw the word if
it wounds. M. Rouher—Then I withdraw the in-
terruption. M. Riess proceeded to argue that
neither the Credit Foncier nor the Credit Agricole
could benefit agriculture. Nothing could make agri-
culture prosper but remunerative prices. France
need not imitate the example of England in this re-
spect. The position was not the same, and she could
not, like England, take two-thirds of her consump-
tion from abroad. He contended that since the re-
peal of the Corn Laws prices had internally declined.
When England had the great temerity to open the
markets she obtained a great outlet for her cereals,
and she did it for great reasons not applicable to
France, and this market had become the universal
compensator for universal, climacteric, and political
circumstances. To continue in France the system
pursued in England would be to commit a great
imprudence. France could not always struggle
against the universal market. A good or bad har-
vest could not change the state of things. M.
Rouher replied very briefly to M. Riess, who, he
said, had spoken in the dangerous spirit that cha-
racterised him. (The Chevalier assented.)
For many months there has been not a strike, but
a want of that harmony which ought always to pre-
vail in the orchestra between the musicians and the
director of the opera. The latter has now granted
the increase of salary claimed by the band. The
increase of salary granted is, for the first class, 300 f,
per annum, and for the second class, 200 f. The
total increase will amount to 20,000 f. The 100th
representation of Meyerbeer's " Africaine" has just
taken place. The receipts of the evening amounted
to 11,000 f. The total amount received for the re-
presentations of this opera has reached the enormous
sum of 1,600,000 f. Vive la Musique. Dauton's
bust of Meyerbeer has just been placed in the saloon
of the theatre.

The pig disease excites increased interest. in

addition to the despatch of two veterinary surgeons
to Germany and Belgium to study the disease, M.
Bouley, Inspector-General of Veterinary Schools,
has been charged by the Boaid of Agriculture to
collect information upon the subject. He has sent
a report, of the salient points, of which I make a
summary. It states that it is only in particular
parts of Germany that illness from trichines has
been traced. In France, says M. Bouley, although
the attention of medical men in all parts of the
country has been awakened to the subject, no case
of disease has yet been met with, neither amongthe
rural population, nor in the army or navy, where
the use of salt pork is so general. The same is the
case in Belgium, for the fact of trichinose, said to
have occurred in the province of Liege, was investi-
gated by two learned professors and disproved by
their investigations. The use of salt pork, .coming
from beyond the Rhine, is very general in France ;
and the question to be investigated is why the disease
has not been manifested here, particularly as it is
known to be highly infectious. The reason, no
doubt, is simply because the people on this side of
the Rhine and the other have different habits and
modes of living. In Germany the breeding of pigs,
chiefly of English race, is very extensive, because
the consumption of pork is indispensable to the
working population, who for the most part eat it
raw. Emigrants from the poorer parts of Germany
go to the various other states where there is great
industrial activity, and they eat scarcely anything
but pork. It is used for sausages which are not
cooked, but merely dried and smoked for 24 hours.
The report then adduces various facts and argu-
ments. The chief argument is that pork
is only unwholesome when it is not properly cooked.
M. Bouley says there 14 no cause for alarm or
anxiety. lam sorry, however, to repeat that some
real grounds for apprehension exist.
At the last meeting of the Geographical Society
a curious and interesting paper was read describing
the journey of M. Guillaume Rey in the mountains
of the Ansanes, which form the northern prolonga-
tion of the chain of the mountains of the Lebanon.
This region had only been traversed in 1810 by
Burckhardt, and in 1812 a French traveller—Cap-
tain Bonton—was murdered there. Towards the
end of the 10th century this territory was inhabited
by some of the Mussulman sect of the Ismaeliens.
The chiefs of this dreaded fraternity persuaded their
followers that the taste of the hachich was so deli-
cious as to give a foretaste of the delights of para-
dise. (The hachich was the flesh of men boiled by
the hache or chopper), and during two centuries the
sect of the Hachichans, from whence the word
assassin is derived, spread terror and dismay
throughout the whole of the East.

After two or three days of terribly cold wind,
enlivened occasionally with snow, sleet, and rain,
to-day has been a real day of spring. It, has been
warm, bright, and sunshiny.

The Declaration of Paris mus t be
Rezciuded.

went to the Foreign Minister to urge him to stop
the trade with Russia, because it would cripple the
resources of the enemy. He refused, because he could
not afford to go to war with Prussia, to whom we
had given a beneficial interest in the war by not
searching neutrals for enemy's property. They had
thus been let into the neutral trade, making profit
of the blood of the belligerents. Mr. Collier stated
in the House of Commons, Feb. 21, 1855, " that at
the outset of the present war, the rouble fell from
38d. to 32d., and it was calculated that a financial
crisis would have ensued had it fallen much lower ;
that it would bring ruin on the landed proprietor,
and bankruptcy on the Czar himself." He described
the actual state of things in these words : " The
commerce of Russia had not been injured ; ten
millions of British money had gone to Russia since
the commencement of the war, and the rouble was
again at par." This is England in 1855 and 1856.
Trembling before such a Power as Prussia, and not
seeing that, if it were true that Prussia would have
declared war against us if we had resumed our
natural right and stopped her from carrying Rus-
sian produce, it would have been far better for us
than the actual position ; because any injury that
she could have inflicted upon us as a belligerent
would have been trifling compared to her interposing
to prevent us from injuring our enemy.
In 1801 England not only resisted, but successfully re-
sisted, all the European powers when they set up the same
pretension, and did so by treating them as enemies. We
find in the pages of Alison, " that on the 14th January,
1801, the British Government issued an order for a general
embargo on all vessels belonging to any of the Confederated
Powers (armed neutrality). Letters of marque were, at the
same time, issued for the capture of the numerous vessels
belonging to these States which were workirg to the
Baltic; and with such vigour were these proceedings fol-
lowed up that nearly one-half of the merchant ships
belonging to the Northern Powers at sea found their way
into the British harbours."

It was treating the neutrals as enemies that England
put down that Confederacy. But it was especially Russia
that felt its effects. A domestic revolution was the result
of the action of England's privateers against the commerce
of Russia, and the Confederacy was at once dissolved.
Russia still remains vulnerable to the same weapons.
Here is the s2cret of the Declaration of Paris. But it is
also the solution of how we are to escape from it. A
Russian manifesto, in 1828, contained the words—" The
Bosphorus is closed. Our commerce is annihilated.',
The armed neutrality was not only dissolved, but every
single power that had joined it acted upon the old law as
soon as each became a belligerent ; notably Prussia her-
self ? Is not this an answer to the "irrevocability" of
that declaration as attested by those who propose to go
further ? Sir John M‘Neil lays it down that this "effec-
tive chock on the ambition of Russia" is held by Great
Britain in trust " for the common benefit of weaker
nations." It is as being then a protective power with re-
ference to others, as well as our only defensive power for
our own security, that I invoke your aid in calling for the
repudiation of that unauthorised declaration. The ob-
stacle in the way is the delusion which some are seeking to
spread, that the now scheme is something either bettor in
itself or more practicable. If it is not_ practicable, it is useless
to discuss its value. The French Government attempted
to have some stipulations introduced into the Treaty of
Amiens in this matter. The reply to which on the part of
the English Government is worthy of all our attention:—
"It is wholly unprecedented to stipulate in a treaty of
peace any limitation of the powers which the parties may
think it expedient to make use of in case of war. His
Majesty will never consent to place out of his hands in a
treaty of peace those moans which may be necessary for
the security of his dominions in time of war." The implica-
tion here is that the use of our strength against our enemy
is a natural right, and therefore one that cannot be given
away. No Government can have power either in law or in
sense to do so. But the especial folly of the project is this
—that it is an engagement to be fulfilled only in the case of
war ; that is when the nation in whose honour you are to
trust has broken faith with and wronged you. While you
cannot revert to the exercise of your rights without giving
occasion to all other nations to accuse you of faithlessness,
as the whole scheme rests upon all the powers becoming
parties to it. Now let us look at it in its internal applica-
tion. The nation would be divided into two hostile camps,
the one part becoming rich itself and enriching the very
country, in fighting whom the remainder was spilling its
blood. The originator of the Right of Search and Seizure
gives the neutral the means of making profit out of the
blood of the belligerents. The private property scheme
would enable the merchants and shipowners of a nation to
make profit out•of the blood of their fellow-citizens. This
must happen if you are to trade with and fight a nation at
the same moment. The advocates of the now code, who
have not, as some do, entirely overlooked the question of
how England is henceforth to make war, seeing that if
rated only a military power she sinks below Prussia, or
oven 1te.15. or Spain, supposing that blockades ere still to go
on. Tho country, therefore, should know that already
they are given up by the same persons who originally im-
posed the scheme of Mr. Gregory. Mr. Cobden has argued
that they should be abolished. Mr. Sumner, speaking for
America, and M. Hautefeuille for France, have done the
same. Mr. Sumner entirely threw off the mask. After
the affair of the Trent, speaking in the Senate, he pro-
claimed the abolition of all belligerent rights
at sea, immunity of private property, contraband of war,
to be abolished and blockades ; using the words " The
statutes of the sea, thus refined and elevated, will be the
agents of peace instead of the agents of war. Ships and
cargoes will pass unchallenged from shore to shore, and
those terrible belligerent rights under which the commerce
of the world has so long suffered will cease from troubling."
We must remember that it is our own act that has given
occasion to these big words. A treaty between America
and Russia on the basis of the neutral flag covering the
cargo was only signed in July, 1854, that is after we had
waived our maritime rights by Order in Council, and the
act was avowedly our own act. " When Great Britain and
France, at the commencement of the present war with
Russia agreed to act upon that principle fbr the time being,
the Government believed that a fair occasion was presented
for obtaining the general consent of commercial nations to
recognise it as a principle of the law of nations."*
The United States is also, the very Power who has not
given up her natural rights. She was made the bait for
us, and has been kept out of the trap herself, not having
joined the Declaration of Pari4. This at least is clear,
that there is no alternative between a capitulation into
which we were cheated, and renouncing all means of
naval warfare. For by what possible arguments could we
uphold the interference with private property in blockad-
ing the ports of a country while we protect as sacred the
merchantmen on the high seas ? Blockade affects neutrals
far more than the right of search can do, the intention of
it being to prevent all trade with the enemy.—Your obe-
dient servant, D. UnQtruAnT.

* Mr. Maroy to Mr. Buchanan, August 7, 1854.

THE " BOIIEMIAN GIRL" OF MR. BALFE is to be
shortly produced at the Theatre Lyrique.

TILE TYCOON OF JAPAN has made a present to
the Emperor Napoleon of 15,000 papers of silkworms' eggs,
which have arrived at Marseilles.

Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded through
Colonel Sir Thomas M. Biddulph, K.C.8., to the National
Lifeboat Institution her usual annual subscription of £5O.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary
dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence, Grosvenor
Gate. There were present—Viscount Courtenay, Viscount
Curzon, Eight Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir John Walsh,
Sir James Fergusson, Colonel Brownlow North, Mr. Paget,
Captain Surteos, Mr.Selwin, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Baggallay,
Mr. Severne, Mr. Gooch, Mr. Grant, Mr. Forsyth, Mr.
Steam Miller, and Mr. Treeby..
PORTRAITS OF PITT AND GARRlCK—reputed to be
bliGainsborough.—ln a recent auction of miscellaneous
old pictures, at Messrs. Foster's, two portraits, one of Wm.
Pitt and the other of Garrick, sold, the former for 195
guineas, and the latter for 160 guineas. They were both
the property of a gentleman deceased, at Hammersmith,
and were believed to have been painted by Gainsborough.
ALEXANDRE DUM AS7LATEST ODDITIES !—." Daniel
Lambert" is the title of Alexand Dumas' new drama,
now in rehearsal at ono of the Paris theatres. Dumas has
just signed a new contract with the New Free Press of
Vienna, to give it a novel drawn from life in Paris, the price
£l,OOO. Very recently he was at Pesth, where the extra-
ordinary costume in which he delivered a lecture was the
cause of considerable laughter. The lecturer appeared in
the Hungarian national costume.
OUR FRENCH NAMESAKE.—The Soleil of Paris
contains a letter from Victor Hugo, in which the
veteran writer declines the offer made by the editor of
£20,000 fOr his new work, "Les Travailleurs de la Mer,"
which he intended to publish in the shape of a feuilleton.
Victor Hugo says : - " Your offer is one of the most splen-
did ever offered to a writer. I admit its magnificence, but
the question of art is for me above all considerations, and
your offer of £20,000 cannot overcome my scruples as an
artist. lam convinced that Les Travailleurs de la Mer'
ought not to be cut up into feuilletons. Perhaps that mode
of publication would suit the romance of Quatro-vingt-
Treize,' which is the work I am at present engaged on."
SILK IN LYONS.—The town of Lyons consumes
annually about 1,000,000 kilogrammes (about 1,000
tons) of silk prepared or spun in different ways. It takes
four cocoons to weigh a gramme of silk; the Lynonnese
consumption amounts to 4,200,000 cocoons ; counting the
length of a thread of cocoon equal to 500 metred, the
amount annually spun by the Lyonnese industry would
make, altogether, a thread of silk 2,100,000 kilometres long,
or more than 14 times the distance of the earth from the
sun, and 5,494 times that of the moon from us. It would
pass round the earth at the equator 52,505 times, and 200,000
times round the circumference e# the moon.—Builder.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCF.

(REUTER'S TEL EGRA M 5 .)

MEXICO.

By the arrival at St. Nazaire of the French mail
steamer Louisiane, news has been received from
Mexico to the date of February 13. The Moniteur
in its bulletin records several engagements between
the Republicans and the Imperial troops, which
have resulted to the advantage of the latter. The
Emperor Maximilian bad returned from Cuerna-
vaca to Mexico, but after
,arranging some impor-
tant affairs in that city he again quitted it on the
12th to rejoin the Empress, and to complete his
contemplated excursion.
The news from the district around Vera Cruz is
favourable. The garrisons of Alvarado, Medelin,
and Catastla, composed exclusively of Mexican
troops, were behaving well. The line of railway to
Orizaba and the road leading to Mexico had ceased
to be interrupted by the bandits, the rural popula-
tion now taking measures to protect themselves.
At Barrancaseca, a small town near Solidad, the
inhabitants arrested and conducted to Vera Cruz
three brigands, one of whom, Marco Vela, had been
one of the leaders in the attack upon the railway
on the 7th of October.

The situation of General Mejia at Matamoras
was satisfactory. The capture of Bagdad had
caused an amount of agitation in the State of Ta-
maulipas, and had increased the audacity of Pedro
Mendez, who had made an attack upon some local
depots, in which, however, he was reported to have
lost his life. The interior of the Empire was tran-
quil, and the sanitary condition of the expeditionary
force extremely satisfactory.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, March 10, Three o'clock.—The market
closed at the following quotations :

41 per Cents 97 80
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 60
Do. end month B9 67-}
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3640
Credit Foncier —
Italian Loan 6l 90
Do. end month 62 07j
RAIL'

Orleans

Northern

Lyons and Mediterranean.

Roman
Ottoman Fives
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds 307 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
nome Debt
Deferred

VAYO.
Cash. Acct.
- ... 881 25
... 1130 -
- ... 905 -
- ... 557 50
- ... 570 -
- ... 547 50
- ... 137 50
- ... 408 75
- ... 417 50

Southern
Western

Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

- ... 233 75
... 97 50
- ;.. 118 75

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE
PRETENCES.—CharIes Agreton, a young man bearing the
aliases of Thompsett, Clifton, &c., was charged before Mr
Tyrwhitt, on a warrant, with obtaining the sum of 10s.
from Mr. Reginald York; of No. 45, St. James's-place, St.
James's-street.

Mr. Yorke said that on the 12th February, between six
and seven in the evening, he was coming out of the St
James's- Club, when he saw a person standing at the cor-
ner of the street. When he got to his door some one said,
" Well, old fellow, I must offer you a thousand apologies
for stopping you, but I want to speak to you." On turn-
ing round he recognised the prisoner as the man he had
seen standing at the corner of the street when he came
out of the club. The prisoner then told him a
long story to the effect that he was a gentleman,
and had been an officer in a Hussar regiment,
and that like many other young men he had kept a young
woman, led a dissipated life, and gone "down the hill."
He mentioned the name of Nellie Harrison as that of the
female, said he reside in Lupres-street, Pimlico, with her,
and that ho had seen her that day in the Burlington-
arcade, but that she passed him by, and the climax of the
story was that he had forged his father's name to a bill for
£450. He said Cox and Co., the army agents, knew all
about him, and would speak of him, and on his-asking for
some money he gave the prisoner 10s., believing his
story. The prisoner again saw him, and telling him that
ho was going to see Mr. Woodgate, one of the Oxford
boat, at Richmond, he gave him some clothes to assist
hwl in going. The prisoner also tom Dim' that his father
kept a hail susses, and his mother a villa at Venice ;
but, from inquiries ho (Mr. Yorke) had made, he
found that he was not known at Cox's, at
the War-office, that no such person of the
name had a hall in Sussex, and instead
of his mother being at Venice, she was in prison
for an omnibus robbery. He had also ascertained that the
prisoner so far ingratiated himself with a gentleman, a
member of a club, as to be invited by the gentleman to
dine at the club, and that in the course of an altercation,
the waiter having said something which offended the pri-
soner, he went to the waiter and demanded a sovereign as

compensation.
Sergeant Shillingford, 4 0, said the prisoner was once
before charged with begging of a member of a club, but
discharged ; and he was also once charged with represent-
ing himself as a detective agent.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.
BREAKING A WOMAN'S ARM.—Thomas Ryan, of 41,
King-street, described as a ship's steward, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting his wife,
Ann Ryan, and breaking her arm with a poker.
Robert Beales, 134 0, said that shortly after 12 o'clock on
Saturday night he was called to 41, King-street, and found
the wife of the prisoner with her arm bleeding, and she
said the prisoner had struck her with a poker. He took
the prisoner into custody, and the injured woman went to
the Charing-cross Hospital, and was still there, unable to
move.

The consh,ble then handed the following certificate to
the magistrate :

" Charing-cross Hospital, March 12.
" This is to certify that Ann Regan is a patient of this
hospital, suffering from a compound fracture of the arm
" 0. W. BERRY, House Surgeon."
The prisoner said his wife was as violent as himself, and
did not wish to attend. She had once stabbed him.

Fanny Seal, a lodger in the same house, said that between
12 and 1 o'clock on Sunday morning she heard the prisoner
come up stairs, and directly he entered his room ho walked
to the fireplace, and took up a poker. Directly afterwards
she heard the sound of three blows, and the wife scream
out, and afterwards the wife said her husband had broken
her arm.

Mr. '1 yrwhitt said he would remand the prisoner, and he
would not take bail.

THAMES.

How PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS.—
Philip Hayward, horse-keeper at the King's Arms Tavern
and livery stables in the Commercial-road East, was
brought before Mr. Paget on a charge of furious driving
and damaging property.
Mr. John Morton Cronnin, a tradesman, of No. 10,
Grosvenor-street, Stepney, was driving a horse and gig
down the Commercial-road towards his own home at 9
o'clock last night, and saw the prisoner coming towards
him with a horse and trap in the contrary direction. The
prisoner drove most rapidly towards him and endangered
his life. The witness, on being asked to explain, said he
was proceeding at a gentle trot, and the prisoner came
towards him, driving his horse at the rate of 14 or 15 miles
an hour, and ran him down. He was much hurt, and his
horse and vehicle injured. The prisoner afterwards
knocked down another horse.

The prisoner—lt is quite true what this gentleman says

Mr. Paget—lle says you were driving along a public
road at 9 o'clock at the rate of 14 or 15 miles an hour and
ran him down.

The prisoner— Not quite so fast as that. I could not
stop the horse ; quite right what he says.
Mr. John Barnes, coffee roaster, of No. 13, Umbustone-
street, Commercial-road, St. George-in-the-East, said the
first time I saw the prisoner he was on the top of the horse,
cart and all. I was in a light spring cart ; my horse will
not go at the rate of more than three miles an hour. He
drove right up-on me ;he knocked down my horse. I
wonder he is here. He was on the wrong side of the road.
I never saw a horse go at such a speed as he did.
The prisoner—When I sung out, did you not pull up
your horse on its hind quarters ?
Witness—No ; never.
Richard Beeson, police-constable 309 K, said the pri-
soner had been drinking heavily and scarcely knew what
he was about. The people said he was going at the rate
of 15 or 16 miles an hour.

Mr. Wm. Uffindell, the landlord of the King's Arms, said
the prisoner was in his service, and he very much regretted
that he should have been driving a horse and trap and
causing the injury as he had done. The prisoner had no
right to take out the trap.
Mr. Paget said it was the old story, a drunken man driv-
ing furiously and endangering people's lives and property.
The prisoner said he was nearly as sober as ho was then
when the occurrences happened, and that the horse he was
driving was struck on the headby a boy.
Mr. Paget said there was gross carelessness, to say the
least, on the part of the prisoner, and, addressing Mr.
Uffindell, said he was answerable for the acts of his ser-
vant, and he (Mr. Paget) would postpone the determina-
tion of the case, and give Mr. Uffindell an opportunity of
arranging the case out of court. He did not think he
should do wrong in giving the people an opportunity of
coming to an arrangement, and they might do it imme-
diately it they pleased.
All the parties retired, and it was afterwards stated that
Mr. Uffindell, who is a tradesman of high respectability,
had compensated Mr. Cronnin and Mr. Dames. The pri-
soner was then dikatura,

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dina`'.Trin- Ciro: La

HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR. CASTLE, March 11.
Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High-
nesses Princess Helena, Princes:: Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and her Serene Highness Princess Hohen-
lohe, arrived at the Castle yesterday at 2 o'clock,
from Buckingham Palace.
The suite in attendance consisted of the Duchess
of Roxburghe, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Bon.
Emily Cathcart, the Hon. Florence Seymour, majer
General F. H. Seymour, Colonel H. Ponsonby, and
the Master of the Household.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Miss Longley
and the Duke of Roxburghe arrived at thb Castle
yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal family.
Miss Longley had also the honour of being in-
vited.

The Queen, Princess Helena Prince Leopold, and
Princess Hohenlohe, with the Ladies and Gentle
men in Waiting, attended Divine service this morn-
ing in the private chapel.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterburypreached
the sermon.