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4 “EUROPE, Napoleon’s Relations to Rome Debated in the French Cabinet. Count Daru’s Position and the Papal Threat of Excommunication. The Lritish March to Demoeracy—Its Progress and Influencing Causes. The Schema Debate in the Papal Council. Fatal Steamship Collision Of Southampton. ‘Tbe Inman steamship City of Brooklyn, Captain Brooks, (rom Liverpool on the 17th and Queenstown the 16th of March, arrived at this port at twoo’clock Yesterday afieruoon, bringing our special European correspondence and newspaper reports in detail of our cable news telegrams, dated on days of sailing. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race nas been de- Duitely Nxed tor Wednesday, April 6, An English Treasury return shows that the amount of the funded debt of the United Kingdom 1s £727,550,956, Of this sum £691,497,686 la in tae Bank of Englana, and £36,042,269 in the Bank of Ireland. ‘Sir W. Russell, M. P., bas flied a petition for liqui- ation m bankruptcy. He 18 described as a ship- owner, of Billiter street. city, and James street, Buc! ham gate, London, His liabilities are £575,000. Mary Fennoy, a seamstress, aged twenty-four, was found murdered, in a piece of waste ground, at Glas gow. Deatn appeared to have been caused by strangulation, The Prince Imperial gaye a dinner of twenty covers to his young friends, Prince Hussein Pacha, second son of the Viceroy of Egypt, was present at the performance of “Robert le Diable’ at the opera, Paris. His High- ness Was accompanied by bis governor, Commander de Castex, ‘The Rassian Cabinet refuses to abolish the Ventton conciuded with the Danubian Principal Telative to the consular jurisdiction, fi Atelegram irom Madrid of March 16 has the fol- lowing;— ‘The interment of Prince Henry de Bourbon took place yesterday. A large number of spectators lined the road through which the procession passed, the cortege consisting chiefly of Freemasons, Public order was not disturbed. In Florence the banker Sella terminated his finan- cial statement of the late failures. He had shown On the first day that the real amount of the deficit ‘Was 110,000,000 francs, suppressing the chapter of Teimbursements of capital, which are to be the ob Ject of a conversion. Of that amount 25,000,000 are to be covered by reductions and 10,090,000 py an Merease in the produce of the grist tax; the differ. ence of 75,000,000 has therefore to be found. Tne Northeaster’a Correspondence speaks of some important modifications in preparation among the high governmentai functionaries of the Austro- Hungarian monarchy. M. de Becke, who was Min- ister of Finance for the two countries in common, is dead. It appears that, at the argent request of the Emperor Francis Joseph, M. de Lonyay has con- sented to accept that post in exchange for the port- folio of Hungarian finance, which he now holds, The Spanish journals announce the death, at Madrid, of M. Bermudez de Castro, who has played @ very important part in the political events whitch have agitated Spain during the last thirty years. ‘The Paris papers mention the decease of Mile, Darcier, ex-artist of the Opéra Comiqne. She made ner G‘but at that theatre tn 1840, and was the origi- nal impersonator of Rose de Mai in the “Val d’an- dorre.”’ ‘The marriage was celebrated in the chapel of the Senate, Paris, between Mlle. Conti, daughier of the Emperor Napoleon’s private secretary, and M. Pugiiesit, Councillor of Prefecture in Corsica. M, ouber was one of the witnesses. The Emperor of Austria addressed a letter to Na- poleon Iil., thanking him for the reception given at Paris to the Archduke Albert, A marriage 18 arranged between the Archduke Albert of Austria and tue daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. ‘The village of Ems, near Coire, Switzerland, bas been almost entirely destroyed by fire. Seventeen houses and thirteen farm bulidings were burned aown and forty families rendered homeless. Dr. Newman wrote to the London Standard to deny that he haa written to his bishop at Rome against the dogma of infailibility. The Wicklow peerage case was continued in the House of Lords. Mary Best was cross-examined, and it Was announced that entirely new evideace was forthcoming. Mr. Joun Campbell, @ claimant to the Breadalbane peerage, is dead. ‘The case of the Duke Of Newcastle was before the Court of Bankruptcy, London, for proof of debis and appointment of assignees, Proof was admitted of debts for several large sume, in all about £20,000. The Duke did not appear, by advice of his solicitor, who stated that “‘his client meant to prosecute to the utmost his appeai against the bank- Tuptcy to the House of Lords.’ ‘The steamer Ariadne, 1,000 tons, first of a fleet of vessels spectaily fittea for the conveyance of cattle trom Montevideo to England, arrived at Falmouth with 144 oxen and 270 6! n good condition. ENGLAND. The National March to Democracy—Sketches iu the Imperial Parliament—The Young Enari Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, and Dire raeli and tho Tory ProspectsThey “Want a Hero” and Have Him. Lonpox, March 12, 1870, PATRICIAN BARL DERBY. As far ag politics are concerned Lord Derby is at present the hero of the hour. Friends and foes are, asit were, batulng over his body aad seckiug to take entire possession of him. Conservative and liberal are alike claiming him as among their adhe- rents, and the sounding brass and tinxling cymbal have prevailed largely during the atrife. Proud of their hereditary rank, their broad shires, their bon- ors and decorations, their wealu and undoubted in- Nueace, the conservative peers naturally believed ‘Uhat they had only to go, cap in hand, and ask the Wari to come and rule over them to have their wishes accomplished, They went and have come empty away, aud are very sore to think that the highest honor wich .as @ party they have to bestow has been rejected, and, indeed, counted as naught. They Made an earnest efort formally and irrevocably to entangle the nobie lord in the narrow meshes of conservatism, and having failed they have been lift ing up their voices in lamentation, talking of dire signs and portents tat are to arrive—the decay of toryism and the possible shaking of the foundations of the constitution itself. What bas been their grief and humiliation has been to the liderais a joy and exceeding great reward, They have congratulated themselves more on the possible return of this one tory lord to the liberal fold than they would have done over the conversion of ninety-nine weaker lords, Whose names carry neither influence nor weight With the populace, Democracy in England, they think, will be materially advancet by the etep which the nobie earl has tacen in refusing to be the leader and recognized mouthpiece of the con- servative aristocracy. Steering clear of, as he has done, the tory Scylla, they belveve that he cannot Jail to fall mvo the whig Charybais, and that a great popular triamph will ta con ce be achieved. Hoth parues may, therefore, be said to be shouting with lusty Juggs m the mark e—the one say- yv lot im out from ‘He is wine; thou hast neitu w wong the aristocr NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1870.-QUADRUPLE SHEET, 4 i : i 53 for. Firet of all, he bas no real ambition for public ive. Unlike his gang Old father In Most respects, he resembies him in tals, that he cares little for U ahock aud strife of tne Parilamentary arena or the austy contention of party poliues, pricey manne near Liverpool, he loves better “to acorn lights aad live laborious days” amid the hy ahake the Senave with his thunder, Momaniio perks, filled with venerable beecues and oaks; ly woods, led with sieek and greas, deer; Wonderiul teeming with the treasure: of Horticulture; palatial ga): rich with tbe mi verpieces of the great artists, these luxuries of pairician country life, which he cau indaige to the uss at Knowsley, where he is @ recognized monarch ana ches, nave for Dim attractons such a8 political posit.on and party comfict never can yield. Then, bane fac uee hig good sense and modesty have t popular move- 6 Lae Englian beart to oa peoles. tina too littie in Feet ge with the arrow trad! ‘S@pprehension and unrea- soning obstruction cf she mass of tue coaser- Valive rank and tile of tue Upper House, to compro- mise himself by accepting ther dogmas, or compelling shimseif to take up @ position which nis emimently Clear aud practical intellect would reject. MIS PHOTOGRAPH. The mode and style of Kari Derby’s speech, and the pecuharities of his manner, may be very brietly described, for the Very simple reason that nelther 1A person nor demeanor does he oifer those marked trails and characteristics that are so frequentiy the conspicuous attributes Of distinguished men. Old Earl Dervy, who nas just been gathered vo bis fathers in the family vaults of Lancashire, Was a person whom the stranger would nave pickea ont irom among @ thousand—tail, stout, commanding, with a figure and bearing that not only denoted the maughty patrican, but nature’s own nobleman; Win @ maguilicent lion-like head and @ majestic face iiluminated with quite an eagle's eye, he wae bow physically and inteliectually a born leader of men—oue ‘whose mere presence arresied atiention and led everybody captive that came within reach of its influence. Wholly different 18 the son, Whom the conservatives Dave just been endeavoring tO instal in Ube position so ulustriously leid by bis sire. Of the average hetght and build, rather un- gainly about thejimbs and consequentiy clumsy 1a his gait; very niy and ofttimes even shavbily Gressed, there 18 nothing in bis appearance to single him out from the average boay of Englishinen out the head ana face. ‘These reveal nis intelligence and vlace hun in the rank of those whose lol it 18 to. sit in councii and guide the destiny of races. ‘The head is large and round, symmetrically shaped, but lacking massiveness, and except im the high perpeadicuiar forehead reveals no trace of the actual power waich Mt in reality contains, Seriousness and a certain frank, indescribable, almost boyish artiessness are the main cuaracteristics of the countenance. scarcely 4 line or wrinkle marks either forehead or face, aud their extreme smoothness are made al! the more man- vest from bis inveterate navit of shaving oi! every- thing bearing even the remotes resembiance to wailskers or mustache, A certain grim taciturpiy lurks about the corners of his mouta, and his wiole expression Ig somewhat cynical and that of a man Who knows his position and feels ms responsiotiities. The mtellectual character of his features 18 spolied by the nose, whicn ts rather long and flat and looks a8 if It had been bruised by @ cricket ball m eariy youth, fis carriage erect to@ degree bordering upon haughtiness, apd as fe Walks he bears his head molt and 100ks abroad with grave, wistiul eyes. 18 HB AN ORATOR? In the sense that Gladstone, Disraeli and Bright are orators the Earl of Derby cannot be said to ve- long at ail tothat category. Effective asa speaker he undoudtedly 1s, cogent and forcible to a degree that rare in Parilament; but he altogether wants the passion and venemence that give the gilted speaker command over the multitude. His defects in this respect are pure defects of temperament. He is cool even to the borders of belng pulegmatic, calm and methodic, lable to be affected, not through the medium of the senses or fancy, but solely througn ‘the inteilectual approaches of pure reasoning. Con- pm a he does not deciatnm, but argues; does not induige im trope, but logic: does not soar into the seventh heaven of eloqu' but fits low in the regions of plain and forcibie statement. He never gets upon stilts or “brings down” the house. “Bat while he does not dre an assembly with enthusiasm or take captive the jancy of mis hearers, he never fails tosway thelr judgments and subdue their will. Where his fatner shone with the brilliancy ef genius he overcomes with the force of pure inteiiect; where his father appealed to buinan hopes and human pas- sions be appeals to sound sense and shrewd, prac- tical Sagacity; Where his father, Kupert fasion, scattered the enemies’ ranks with the full shock of his apt iltustration and magnificent rhetoric, he seeks to turn the flank of his adversaries oy cogent syllogism and mathematical accuracy. He has few equals in stavesmantike exposition of policy, in depth and lucidity of proposition or in thoughtful and origina! comprehension; but be cannot rouse like Gladstone, excite and carry away like Bright or smite to the dividing of the marrow like Disracii. Moreover, hature has endowed him with certain defects which in a jarge measure preclude him from ever becoming a successful Paritamentary leader. He bas no gift of extemporary speech, no power of uttering his opinions on tue spur ol the moment. What be has to say be must cogitate profoundly, write out in manuscript and commit to memory. The ability to catcn opponent’s proposition on tne wing and reply to them without premeditations he does not possess. He is weak at retort and repartee, siow tosum up arguments, destitute of wit or sar- casm, cold in temperament, and incapable of in- spiring enthusiasm in his followers. He wanis fluency, and has nota trace of that extraordinary command of language which gave such an irresisti- ble charm to the rapid, rusting, and almost torrent- like eloqnence of his father, And, to sum ap all, he hasan nritaung defect in tls speech which mars bis best efforts, prevents him being distinctly heard, and altogether precludes him, however willing he might be, trom taking oratorical fights into the em- pyrean. WILL HE EVER BE PREMIER? This 1s a question the setulement of which depends entirely upon himself. Shouia he resolve to do 80 he night achieve that distinction at no very disiant date. All that is requisite to piace the destinies of England in hus hands is tat he should openly cast in his fortunes with the tiberals, Once ranged under thelr banner there would be no one to dispute the palin with him except Mr. Giadstone. Gifted as is Far! Granville, his intellect is not sufficienuy weighty nor his influence sufticientiy great to enable hun even to become @ competitor with Lord Derby. Should the latter resvive to remain with the conservatives aud Mr. Gladstone were jaid aside, Mr. Joun Bright has perhaps the best chance of at- taming to Lhe supreme position. But the Karl of Derby 18 So popular among all classes of liberals, and he is so eminently sale and moderate, that they stil live in hopes that he will “come over and hep them’ by joining their ranks and espousing their cause. A very easy mode of accomplishing this transition wili s00n be open to his Jordsiup. Old Lora Clarendon 13° becoming too infirm and antequated forte Foreign Office, and im the nature of tuings must soon resign that post. Nothig seems more probable than ‘that Mr. Gladstove will ofer the uppomtment to Lora Derby, and should ne accept it his adaussion into the liberal ranks wili be cele- brated with ioud flourishes of trumpets, and his at- taiument to the Prime Ministerslup will then be ouly @ quesuon of tim HIS GRACE OF SALISBURY. This peer has, next to Lord Derby, been most fre- quently in the mouths of ine Westminster quiduancs during the past week. The uoole marquis is, as far as abilities and position are concerned, the only rival which the saperior of Knowsley has on his own side ofthe hoase, Him, therejore. the conservatives have deen coguetting with In tne hope of inducing him to accept the honor which the other noble eari reiused. Should he consent English toryism, which uader Lord Derby would have meant progression and syr- pathy with popular movements, will become tixed in its ojd stubborn ruts till, as ta the case of the Paper Duty and the irish Charch, the people clamor av its gacves and cause 1t hastily to surrender, A TORY OF THE TORLRS A conservative 1n whom there is lio guile 1s the Marquis of Satusbury. His honesty 18 above suspi- cion, his honor and fotegrity unimpeachable, tis political faith earnest to a fault. Stubvora as an Kastern mute, dogmatic as a &choolinan, with a mind enclosed as it were by triple walls of steel in the form of prejudices and convictions, he 13 just anger the commonwealth or light revolution in the hearts of the people, rather than abate one jot of any position he may take up, give up a crochet or modily au opinion. He 1s, im fact, a thorough representative of tue autocratic old Eng- lish nobleman, wlose castle was his kingdom, whose word was law unto his vassals, and who be- lieved implicitly in tis own endowments and the power ot his own resources. Possessed of one of tue finest country seats in all fair Herifordshire, ruling over an estate wider than avy ever held by the burons bis forefathers, endowed with an Oxiord education of the first class and an inteliect that places him in the foremost ranks of genius, politics are naturally nothing to him but an arena in which he can preach his own strongly conservative doc- trmes and attack the creeas of his opponents, Statesmanship is played at by most men to gratliy persona! ambition, to attain "power and clutch at pubdlic rewards. Not so, however, is it with the Margulis of Salisbury. <All that tne most ambitious can desire he has already obtained, elther through his own industry or hereditary succession. Conse- quently he cares not whom his convictions may otfend, nor does he ever disturb himself at the thought chat lis opinions are irritating aod unpal- atable to the vast majority of his fellow country- meu. Having nothing to gain, he will not speak fair or dissemble, ‘Toryism he loves with his whole soul and strength; and toryism he teaches with a the forve of Mis deeply robust and practical intellect, HOW HE SPEAKS, Trained from au early age im the rough school of the House of Commons. the Marquis of Saitsbury svon acquired thal ease and self. possession which are 80 ial tO the effective debater, As Lord Cranbourne be attained t putation of being one crcest and inost powerul spoakers In ail that ic assombly, Like the War liorse, he laughed Shaking of aepear, and he never snatched & pore Searial joy then when warding of an attack or bu Ue lull measure of Mss ad taunts ven the louse ¥ ip one of lis ovacorical Jlag'sng was Was wie Agoid side to side, he was in bis eiement; for he loves rather ¢ war by land and sea--wars with " 8 ni. s00n a8 word was passed to Lhe lobbies that ‘Cranbourne was up,” members began t) rush tuto the House in hot haste. Liorary, smoking room and billiard room @ave jorth their loungers; and the chamber which waa, perhaps, nearly empty whew he rose, would be fiiied before ne had got well under way. He is es- seuually a debater rather then an orator. He does not charm the ear with bis cadences, nor aur vie fancy with odd concelts. ie doea not beat about a subject, but surikes right home to its heart. His ora- Uory i of Le collogaial style, and he addresses bis lence just as i he were chatting familiarly over ‘the walnuts ana wine at his own dinner table. But then his speech 1s ike @ two-edged sword, dividing asunder io une marrow. His blows are siedge-ham- mer vlows that shiver whatsoever they encounter, Scorntul, morcover, he is, with the scorn of a bighly gifted nature; wratuful at times like a prophet of oid; and possessed withal of a grim, sardonic hu- mor that sca ds and burng what it touches, Had be the grace of delivery, the moaulatea intonation or the rhetorical flourishes o1 eitver Mr. Bright or Mr. Gi stone, ne would take rank among tne very Dighest of parliamentary orators. As itis he is one of the most effective and convincing. All his utterances @re marked by depth und originality of thought; and when roused by ayreat crisis or a sudden emergency he can mount into an eloquence peculiarly lis own, which contains nothing florid and everyting sub stantial, HOW HE LOOKS, Visitors to the gorgeous Peers chamber, looking around upon the high and mighty personages who are seated in easy négiigence upon the biasing crim- son benches, In altitudes akin to those of ordl- nary mortals. would not oe long in picking out by head mark the slagle grains of intellectual wheat which leaven the bushels of cha of the upper house. Among those who would arrest attention is this very Marquis of Salisbury whom I have just. been describing. Here he sits, or rather reclines, of One of the tront benches of opposition. He leans back to his full length, his head bangs downwards over the weil-atuited back of the seat, his legs are crossed, the right one poised high aloft in the atui- tude of “nursing,” aid his eyes are fixed in a dreamy reverie upon one of the lofty siained glass ‘windows near the roof, which pours a flood of radi. face full upon the stalwart statue of the Duke of Norfoik, hereditary Grand Marsnal of England, His bead 13 large and his forehead very prominently de- yeioped, rounding off at toe top into quite a Shaks- Ppearian amplitude. 12 consequence of a sight bald- ness. indeed, as far as hls head is concerned, he 18 quite a lion like wan of Moab, and this illusion is strengehened by @ alight air of fierceness, which very — and bushy whiskera and mustaches give him—a flerceness which 15 only tempered by that dreamy expression of the eve which 1s 80 often the characterisiuic of overworked genius. For the rest he 13 singularly broad avout the chest and shoul- ders, which latier have acquired a conlirined stoop through long devotion to tie study. His whole figure, indeed, 3 clumsy to a degree, the clumsiness being greatly increased by we extraordinary lengta of lus arms, which hang quite straignt and almost mouon.ess by bis side When he Watks, and by an awkwardly saaped foot, whose pecuilarities are re- vealed rather thau conceaicd vy enormous Welting- ton voots, OAN HE LEAD? To this qnestion J reply in a manner such as none other of nis party can. He has in perfec'ton ail the qualities of & great parliameatary commander—iron will, tact, shrewd cominon sense, humor, ready gilts of retort, and the power of governing men aud sub- duing them to his purposes and needs. But HIS QUARREL WITH DISRAELI. The Marquis’ quarre| wiia Disraeli will always be alion in tue pach, He hates that rigat honorable gentioman, not because he is a Coristian, but, on bis own showing, for quite an opposite reason, Disraeli, he believes, suid the honor of the conservative party for @ mess oF pottage. Disraeli, be believes, gave household age to Engiand to become’ Yrime Minister, and trailed the traditions of the tories in the mad to gratify bis old grudge against the whigs. Holaing these opinions respecung his late colleague it 18 very natural that tis Grace of Salisbury should refuse to have intercourse or com- munion with the leader of the opposition in we House of Commons. On the night when the Con- servative Reform bill passed its turd reading in the Commons the then Lord Cranvourue poured the full vials of bis wrath and scorn over the head of Mr. Disraeli. Sach siedge hammer hitting had not been heard for years, even in that tumultuous chamber, Grimly sat Disraeli, endeavoring to wear his usual Impassive, splinx-like countenance, that betrays neither feeling nor emotion, But the shafts smote home between the jorits of the harness; and as i1b- erais and radicais cheered noisily with lusty throat, the man who slew Sir Robert Peel and bad never winced in the heaviest parliamentary strife turned pale under the sharp sting of the infliction. Since that memorable night the noble Marquis has kept on the trall of his enemy with quite an Indian implacability. In the influential and scholarly pages of the Quarterly Review he has denounced 1n the fiercest manner the man who sold the cause of conservatism. ‘foe articles have bevn the talk of the country. Such slashing writing, such scathing V@tuperation, such powerlul arguments, have been oreiga to English political discussivas since tue days of the old race of giants—the De Foes, William oCbbetis, Juniuses and Albany Foublanques, ‘The Steamship Collision Of Southnmpton— Numes of tho Saved and Lost. {From the Cork Examiner, March 18.) crew steamer Mary came into coilision with tne mail steamer Normanby, from Southampton, thirty miles off the Necdies, yesterday morumyg. The Normanby sustained some injuries aad sank. Seven gentiemen passengers were saved in boats, nained- Bulsoa, speerdale, Cooper, Greene, James and Brownette. Eleven lady eae were also saved, named Kinloch, Kocne, Wood, Clisett, Wriest, Roberts, Pore, Clay- doa, Burrows, Goatrey and Warden. Five satiors and one dreman, the stewardess, tive stewards and the secoud mate are also saved. It 18 feared the captain and engineer are lost, also about twenty passengers, including General Grantham, Mr. West- away, Mr. Kinloch (brother to tne lady saved), four Jadies, and ten ueck and forecasile passengers. ‘Yhe Mary stood by for two bours, but nothing more Was seen of the Normaupy, The Godrich Divorco Suit—Lord Penzance on the Custody of the Children. Before Lord Penzance, in London, on the 16th of March, Mr. Bayiord made an application to tne Judge Ordinary in tls celebrated divorce suit case:— The learned counsel said the application he was about to make was based upon facts Of @ most ex- traordinary character, His Lordship would remem- ber that an order had been made that the custody ot the two childrea of Mrs. Goarich shouid be given to Mr. Godrich, senior, ther rand - lather, but also ordered toat Mrs. Godrich should see them at certain times. Mr. Godrica had how charged his wie with having committed per- Jury by stating on affidavit that she had not seen the cnildren on auy one occasion after the original order was made. and the case Was to come on at the G lal to-morrow. It appeared to him (Mr. Bayford) that both Mr. Godricn and his father’s sole invention was to put off the farther proceedings in the cause 1a this court to an indefinite period, Lord Penzance—Waat do you want me to do, Mr. Baytorda? Mr, Bayford—To secure that Mrs. Godrich may see her children, or at least pe informed where they are. Lord Penzauce—The amidavit states tual they are in Belgium, bus it dues nov siate what part. (Lauguter,) Mr, Bayford—Just 80; and Mr. Godrich, Sr., states tit he will not continue to Support them Wf be 1s threatened in any manuer as to their proper cus- twody,or education, Lord Penzance—That js the great diMcuity, and = court is bound Lo 100K to the wellare Of the Cli ren. Mr. Bayfora—But the fatuer of these children is Managing the business of his own: father, Dr. Godrich, and it1s & question whether the sather or the mother ougnt to have ikem and see that they are properly brought up, Lord Penzance—But wno is to support the chil- dren if the grandfatuer shouid refuse to do so? @ Mr. Baylord—Mrs. Godrich has had allowed her by this court £100 per year as ailmony, and will do all sue Cau upon (bis amount to educate them properly. Lord venzance—It 13 quite plain that the old Mr, Godrich cannot piace these chuidren were he likes, and thatthe mother should not know were they are. Dr. Swaney, for Mr. Goarich, said he nought the chiidren should re.nain where they are at present, Lord Penzance—W here 1 that? Dr. Swabey rephed that ne ald not know. Mr. Bayford—And these children are both girls. Lord Peuzance—I do not see why she mother stivuld noi see her own children, and pariicuiariy 80 after an order had been made that she should be so permitted. The question 1s whether Mr. Godrich has not been guilty, or nearly so, of ntempt of court. Where there has been 80 much ill biood brought up tucre ought to be no secret where the children are. Ishali at ouce commit Mr. Godrich, Sr., if he does not say where the children are. Mr. Bayford—Miss Hall i3 bere, who took them to Belgium, and Mr. Gourich 1s now inthe court. I feel that Mr. Godrich, Sr., has been doing all this himself, and not the father of the children, Lord Penzance—The Court 1s only to look to the benefit of the children, Miss Emina Hall was then called and entered the witness box, and was asked if she had taken the children away. The witness replied that she took them away on the 2d of February, 1368. Lord Penzance—W bere did you take them ? Miss Hali—! decline to say. I would rather be committed for contempt of court than answer. Lord Penzance—You would rather? Miss Hall—Yes. Lord Penzance—Then you shall be. Are youa relative to the children? e Miss Ha!l—I ama cousin to Mr. Godrich, and Mr. Godrich, Jr., does not know where they are, Lord Penzance—I do not tlubk tis 13 true, Mr. Bayford—Have you seea Mr. Godrich, §r., here? Miss Hall—Yes, half an honr ago; I would rather go to prison than say where they are, for I love the cuildren. Lord Penzance—You are committed for contempt of court, and if Mr. Godrich, Sr., does not say where the children are F shall commit nun also. Muss Hail was then ordered vo be retained, and Mr. Godrich, Sr., Was called but did potanswer. The Judge imtimated that process would be served apoa him, and, afer apother caze had veen called, the grondfatuer appeared, and ia reply to tus Jordeuip Bald that the movher Was Hob the proper puson tO have the custody of vhe cntidren, Lord Vessudce said the Court was th. | of inat. best judge said she would tuform the Court privately where the children Lord ‘Well, then, do it at once; bat I Wilt Rot prowise to keep the secret, (Laughter.) Miss Hall tuea wrote down that they were at the Rev, Mr, Perron’s, Pasteur, Dour, his lordship read tt out His lordship then made anorder that Mrs. God- rich should wea the children every six weeks for a couple of hours, and no impediment whatever was to be thrown in her way. ‘The proceedings then terminated, Libel Salt Against Premier Gladstone. Mr. Leonard Edmunds, in his declaration in an action at law which he has brought against Mr, Gladstone and the other Lords of the Treasury, alleges that the defendants “falsely and maliciously printed and published, and caused to be printed and Daniened, in the several morning and evening papers of the 18th of January last, in London, @ paper purporting to be a ‘Treasury minute, in which they disuncuy obarge bim with iejo anu otner high crimes and misdemeanors.” ‘The deciaratios f makes it incumbent op the defendants to plead ‘a justification,” and whe onus proband, under this plea, will lie upon them. By the terma of the declaration they are aiso required to give exact particulars of dates and isums of money in justification of the several libels in the minuie—namely, that Mr. Edmunds ‘had put his hand into the till of bis office and heiped himself to sums of public money;”’ that “he was @ public defauiver;” that he was ‘guilty of matversation,”” and that ‘ne bad been in the habit of appropriating sums of money that belonged to the puoiic. ‘The venue ts laid down in the city of London, and the cause will come on for trial at the next sittings. Charles Dickens? Farewell Reading. ‘The announcement that Mr. Charles Dickens would give his last reading on March 15 brought an im- menge audience to St. James’ Hall. ‘The Christmas Carol” and the “Trial from Pickwick were the pieces selected, and they were read with Mr. Dickens’ ac- customed pathos and humor, At the end of the reading Mr. Dickens sald:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—It would be worse than idle, for 1t would be hypocritical and unieeling, if I were to d'aguise that | close this episode in my life with feelings of very consiaerapie pain. For some fitteen years, m tits hail and in many kindred piaces, i nave bad the honor of presenting my own cherigved ideas befure you for your recognition, and, in closely observing your reception of them, have enjoyed an amount of artistic delight and in- struetion which, perhaps, it is given to few men w know. In tus task, and im every other [f have ever udertak0On as @ faith ful servant of the pud.ic, always imbued ‘with a sease of duty to them, and always striving to do bis best, Lhave beea uullormiy caeered by the readlest response, the 10st generogs sy mpatoy and the most stimulating support. Nevertheless, | nave thougnt it well at the floodtide of your favor to re- Ure upon those older associations between us which date irom muco further back tian th and nence- forth to devote myself exclusively to the art that tirst brought us together, Ladies aud geutiewen, In but two short weeks from thus ime 1 nope that you may enter, in your own homes, on & new series of readings at whica my assistance will be imdispens- aie; but from these garish iights | vanish pow for evermore, with one tearielt, grateui, respecitul and aivecuonate farewell, FRANCE. Cabinet Discussion on the Infallibility Ques- tiou—Difflerences of Opinion and Symptoms of Discord—Position of the Ministers and the Emperor — Excommunication—The Special Envoy to Rome—Coincidence with Austria. Paris, March 16, 1870. The doctrine of infallibility has become @ cause of discord in the Cabinet. Several discussions have taken place in reference thereto. To-morrow, at a council of Ministers to be presided over by the Em- peror, the question will be again argued and it is ex- pected that the dissension will be amicably ar- ranged. M. Darn, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 18 of opinion that France has no right to interfere with the question of 1nfallinility, so long as it is confined to mere religious practices or interpretations of the Roman Catholic faith. In this view of the case the Emperor coincides. M. Ollivier thinks that preven- tion is better than cure. M, Daru contends that 1t Would be undignified for France to threaten the Pope, and that, on the contrary, his Holiness should be informed that the French government, although determinea not to meddle with religious regulations, has decided thav should the Council touch on politics to make the question European. France has demanded that the empire be represented atthe Council by @ special ambassador, Now the Jesuits have been rummaging among the ola archives and have ferreted out many ancient papers and doctrines which might have been weil suited for bygone dass, when excommunication and other ter- rors of the Charch had weight, but which ta the nineteenth century would cause the most credulous tosmile. The King of Italy has managed to survive hig excommunication, and the fear of a similar pun- lshment would certainly not deter Napoleun ILf. and his advisers from doing theirduty. The Pope, how- ever, by publishing the canons, has clearly shown his desire to interfere with political matters ina most serious manner. Une of the canons—I believe the seventh—lays down the coctrine that all States are subservient to the Church. This would afford the opportunity for unlimited Papal interference. It would place all the French bishops, who, as I before explained, are paid and nominated by the imperial government, in a perfectly independent position of aul authority, except that of Rome, and moreover give to the Pope the power of nomination, without even the necessity of consulting this government. Should this canon be enforced the Pope could order the bishops, even- in political affairs, to disobey the laws of this coun- try. I will give you an instance to what extent this question of ifallibility may affect France. At the present moment the French clergy pray for the health and satety of the imperial family. The Pope, once admitted to be infallible. might not only refuse ® continuance of this custom, but might actually compel the bishops to pray for the restoration of the Bourbons. The French government, itis true, might punish any bishop for obeying the Pope; but the descendant of St. Peter might punish the bishop for not carrying out his orders. Thus the imperial government and the ciergy of France would be piaced in a false position. ‘There 18 another point in this question which is worthy of consideration. The Pope is the head of the ultramontane party; those of which that party is composed are to a man legitimisis. Should the canon become law the Pope could in future not oniy nominate all bishops from the ranks of the legiti- mists, but give orders that all mior ecclesiastics, cures, vicars, &c., should belong to the same party. When you consider tae immense influence exer- cised by the clergy, especialiy in the rural districis, it is evident that, in point of fact, the objectionable canon would piace the ruler of srance in the hands of the the Pope and clergy. To this the Freacu gov- ernment will never consent. The explanation which | have given above is tne key of the present struggle between France and the Pope. Tunis councry demands to be represented at the Council by @ special ambassador by virtue of the concordat with the Court of Rume, dated 1501. Austria hag the same sentiments and opjects as France, She will not send a special amoassador to Rome, for the reason that she never agreed to the concordat proposed in 1856. The Austrian govern- ment will, however, not only assist that of France with respect to tals question af Rome, but M. de Beust has written to tue Austrian representative at the Eternal City a letter, of which a copy will be given to Cardinal Antoneill, it 1s couched in terms nearly similar to those I have stated as being entertaimed by the French government, M, de Beust even goes farther; he says almost in plain terme that should the canous be carried out, the por- tion of them Wich would interiere with Austrian authority will not be obeyed, anda that any priest Who suall act in contravention of the Austrian laws will be punished, Ine unpression here 3s that the Pope and Coancti will not attempt to enforce a doc- trine which will be the cause of incalculable diai- culty to the Aoman See, LEGISLATIVR REACTION. The Senators are acting as if they wished to bring about a reaction in favor of ultra-despotic princi- ples. A Senatus Consulte has been presented for tneir approval, which provides tor the anauliing of article fifty-seven of the constitution io reference to the nomination of Mayors. The Senate, how- ever, refuses to accept the Senaius Consuite until the Ministers declare in what way the Mayors are in future to be named or elected. This, to a certain point, the government declines to accede to, on the round that it 19 @ question for the considera- jon of the the representatives of the people. Should the Senate not give way Ulilivier will report the proceedings of that body to the Corps Legisiatif aud asx advice from that Cham- ber. Tae Emperor endeavors to ward off this re- galt, a$ It 18 more than probable that the Corps Légisiati, holding the parse strings, may refuse to provide in the budget, snould the senators be Ob- stinate, the payment of 30,000 francs to each sepa- tor, and at the same time the public mind wouid be agitated against the Senate, ‘Ihe consequence would be that the Senaje would lose its high prerogative and be reduced to a simple constl- tutional part of the State, simular to the Cuamber of Peers in Englaud. It 1s proposed to present to the nate @ Senatus Consuzie, combining the Algerian un and that of the election of Mayors. Tue snate CAN Approve or disapprove, but cannot Make any changes in a law savmitied for approval. The action of the Senate, tuerelore, becomes of considerable inport: 1c URE HONORS. Thig ig the olrthday of tue Prince Imperial. He @ dinner to twenty friends. As Itold last, with the Saeepnon &o., there will vot be a distribution of the covete red ripbon, there was such a jaable to obtain the decoration of the Legion Honor that tne Ministry decided to defer the usual get distribution until the Emperor's sete. It 18 the custom for each Mi r to present to his Majesty =& list of persens worthy of being decorated. The Minister of Interior, on these occasions ,recommends ali the functionaries of SE eag yy oy a op} 1 dyn 3 the limaster of Justice lon = ‘ per sons connected with jurisp! the aineers, &c. Tne Emperor, of course, names who- ever he chooses, Thus, as may be su] |, there are many long faces borne on the shoulders of a multitude of aspirants who have looked forward to ‘this day for the accomplishment of their ambition— the Legion @ Honneur. THR SPANISH DURL. ‘The fatal duel between the Duke of Montpensier and Heuri de Bourbon, brother of Francuis d’Assiss, and not the nephew, as was at first stated, bas caused but litue sensation in Paris. Parisians do Dot pay much attention to anything except dress and irivolity. Here weare all in a whirl; we have not time to reflect. Traupmann was a sensation while he lasted, but as s00n as we got him off our hanas we turned to something else. Rochefort was & wonder for @ time; he is put ous of the way; thinks of bin now except the Maré and a lew inflammatory sheets, The Prince Pierre will fade like a dissolving view, 40 soon as his trial ia over, Hveryliug here with tie exception of business *‘goes aliead.’? Murdera, loves, suicides, debauchery, revolution, religion and new fashions present themselves in sudden changes as starting 48 those in tne kaleidoscope. We like them alli turn, a8 tuey offer us a new sensation. We are not seriously attached to anything. I have often Duzzied my bvralus*with the attempt to discover What Paris does really care for. 1 have now come to the conclusion that dress, false hair, powdre we » rouge and Louis XV. heels are the absorbing subjects of the Parisian mind. Tue duel at Madrid has in private circies caused some emotion. A prince of the Bonaparte family has shoc @ man tn consequence of repeated insult; a rince of the house of Orleans has killed the rotuer-in-law of Isabella IL for a similar cause. it was knowa in Paris twelve montis since that the Duke of Montpenmer desired to, cail dienri de Bourbon w account for the violent attacks and insuits to which the Orleanist family had been subjected, He was prevented carrying this intention into execution hy the advice of his rela- tions. ‘The insulis were continued, and the Duke, jaded beyond endurance, sent his seconds to Henri ie Bourbon. The last pamphlet published by the Don was circuiated in profusion at Madrid; It was a manilesto addressed to the Montpensiersts, ‘the iaise author declared himself the enemy of the French: Priace, for whose “political harliquinades” he ex- P i profound contempt. LOVE AND DANGER, A lover has discovered to his cost that a pair of sheets are not long enough to ellect @ sale descent Trom @ window on the fourth floor, Auguste C. sus- pected his wife of wo great partiality fora profes- sor of the dramatic art wbo rejoiced in the name of Hector.” Auguste watched the louse and saw Hector enter, He shortly aiterwards kuocked at his owa door, which, however, remained hermetically closed. “Open in the name of the law !’ shouted the jeaious husoand 12 & funclionary tone of voice, ‘Ine door Was opened, he rushed in, searched vamly for any living soul but that of his better half. He was avout Ww retire crestfallea, when he heard terrific cries outside the window. Hector was dangling at the end of two sheets which reacted only to the Bec- ond floor; he was screaming for assistance ana twisting rouud and round Iike a chicken on a bottle jack. The imjured husband took him down, pitened into him and dragged him off to the police station. He, however, made his escape en roufe, Strange as it may appear in this recki+ss city, the appropria- Uon of otaer persons’ Wives is n01 allowed by law. The Prince Imperial—His Birthday and the Dynasty. The Parts Constitutionnel of March 17 makes the subjoined brief but highly eulogistic remarks on the anuiversary of the 16th of March, we Prince Impe- rial’s fifteenth birtuday The day has a double signification for France. I recals to mind the giorious end of a war engaged in, Not with a view of conquest, but in the intercst of the general balance of power—tnat 1s to say, of the peace and civilization of Europe. That date also co- incidea witn the birth of @ prince who will continue tne reign of. the Napoleonic dynasty. ‘Yo cele. brate tne 16th of March 1s not the act of @ courtier, but tne duty of a citizen. Years succeed each other quickly, and men forget even more rapidly. If the second empire, during the period through which 1% has just passed, subject to the lot of all human ingtitutions, has not been exempt from error, let us also rememoer that it has done some good gaod and great things; let os hope that the Parliamentary empire may spare us all the inconveniences inherent in a persoual regime, without depriving us of the prosperity at home ana prestige abroad for which we are indebted to the latter. In a word, let us ask of Providence that the eneration of Napoleon IV. may enjoy in peace aud berty the institutions founded and developed under tue reign of Napoleon ll. SPAIN. Priin’s Speech on the Duke de Montpensicr’s Visit. {Madrid (March 7) Correspondence of London Times.) ‘The Duke of Montpensier still remains in wadrid, living as quietly and as modestly as apy gentieman of fortune could do. He goes shopping, Visits nis friends, walks in the Prado, afd is present at the opera without exciting the least attencion, or giving rise to the slightest demonstravion, elthe able or hostile, Tnere are, of course, mai Tancy they see some Goce political design in pre- sence here, and have talked freeiy of projected acts of violence to seat him on the throne, Prim ad- ministered a severe reproof to these agitators on Saturaay in the Cortes. The republican Deputy, Garcia Lopez, had asked the government if they had, directly or indirectly, infuenced the French government in ordering Sefor Orense, the Marquis Of Aibaida, to remove his residence trom Bayonne to the interior of France. When Lopez had conciuded, the Carlist Deputy, Cruz Ochoa, rose, and, amid the laugiuter of the House, but in wone of deep seriousness, himgeit put the following formai questions: — ‘The Captain General ot the Army, Don Antonio Maria de Orleans, has been three or fonr days in Madrid. Will the Minister of War say if this gentleman has the necessary Hcense? If 80, has he permission sufficient to reside iv Madrid? Have the government knowledge 0: the suspicions , and alarms the presence of Don Antonio alaria de Urieans ia causing in public opinion, and are they disposed to do what inay be necessury \o cause those feara and alarms to cease Y Amid intense stillness on tie part of the House Prim repiied as follows both to these questions aud to the insinuations of Garcia Lopez, saying:— ‘The questions of Senor Ochoa are so innocent that I will answer them completely and without reserve. He asked if the Captain General, Don Antonio Mari Bourbon (laughter) has come to Madrid with cen this question I’ answer that something like a month Duke of Montpensier asked permission of the Mi War to go tothe Baths of Alhama, passing by Madrid, and the government faw no reason to refuse this license. In'con- ience the Duke came to Madrid, stayed twenty-four hours then went to Albama. From Albama he has returned to “Madrid, with the intention, aa ie told me himself yesterday, when J'had the honor of returning the visit of courtety he made to me, of remaining here a sew days and then returnin, to Seville. The Duke of Montpensier at present h quarters (cuavtel) assigned to hin fn his caps & Captain-General, Ho represented tila to me, T replied that, just as any other ollicer, he could ask for any quarters he thought proper. With respect to the suspicions mentioned by Senor Ochoa, and alluded to ina and aven prophetic manner by another Deputy of the can minority to-day (Garcia Lopex), which we are told exist in all mind: and produce general inquietude, I have some- thing to say. The republican Deputy aa gone #0 far as to assert that he — suspected in the very of the Cabinet certain pans. And what entiemen, than acoup detat, Duke of Montpensier on the Spanish uation as its sovereign. ‘Toe Chamber has done justice to this insinuation of Senor Garcia Lopez when it answered his fears and aiarms with a laugh. They certainly deserved it.I cannot underatand how ‘any one can come here in full Parilamont and say seriously, that it may be written down by the reporters, rend to-morrow in and within » few days in all the world, that there are sinister plans in the breast of the Cabinet, frantricidal plans—for nothing else would they be— to make a cup deut to Spo pone, ® sovereign on Spain ill ‘and unconstitutionally. (Cheers.) How could Senor Garcia Lopes “beileve the government have such propositions? What date bas he for sch manifesta- tions? Linaist ou his producing them for the informatian of the Cabinet, , and g0 cannot produce them. Is it “they eay,') or “I have heard?” Where? In the clubs? In the theatre? In the piazas? In the cafes, or fu other places even yet lower? And this Is a auflicient proof to come here, in the midst of the national representation, to alarm the public mind | Gentlemen, there are many persons who think that when a Depaty says so andso something isin it. But J reject the insinuation of Senor Garcia Lopez. I desire my words to carry tranquility to all minda, and I claim justice to the truly proved and liberal men who. sit on this bench frou. all the Spaniaras, whatsoever may be their opinions. (Cheers. Here there may be more or less aympatby, or none the Duke of Montpenster, but no spabih Dep believe that plans are being framed In the Cabinet to impose him on the coun! sovereign. (Cheers) Here we can bave no other sovereiguty than tuat of the Cortes Constituyentes, and miserable is he who thinks ‘Aoy other thing! Not only is he miserable because he bas an ‘abominable and parricidal thougit, bu we he will er powerful athinker may be re the power of the Cortes and of iq there Nothing # /@ will have to bend bet the government, Here no one can do anything against the sovereignty of the Cortes! Every one understands that, (Cheers) For a Jovg time they have spoken of a coup d'etat, and i iareally # painful thing to ree the small criterion by which they judge of political aifairs in this country. A week or two 0 we had the intention to hold a grand roview, as we bad in rid at the time a large garri We had not had time to parade, nor even to receive the officers. Well, from the moment this {ntention was announced, many became agitated, tranquillity was disturbed in ‘certain spirits, and it was said that on that day wo were xo. to make ‘a coup d'eat. But on that day it rained, and be- cause it rained we bad no courd'dtat. ‘To tat review we had, in order to have it moze imporing, Invited the volun teers to asalat, and they did me the honor to accept the invitation. It would have been a peoullar coup «eta, with the volunteers present under their leaders, Senor Lopez, Senor Soro ad the Alcalde of Mairi 5 have {ully angwered Senor Ochoa's questions res} Duxe of Monipensier; but now that amon my fect I have toway a word or two respecting that elevated personage. I don’t understand how men who call themselves liberal, and who even protend to be more liberty only for 1 than us, can desire vel another citizen, who certainly has the right to come to Madrid, to go to the Baths, to return to Madrid and totrans inte Limsell where he pleases, Ie it becatke the eowning of the Duke of Montpensier to Dfacrid can exercise so tnuch influence in the miuds aud a fagcinace the Depa tes that the next day thoy will reaolye Ww proclaim him hing ot Spain? Or isit iat the Duke alone, against the Garcia Lopes aud Senor =. te 5 FH him the all who could Frenident of the Counell of Min * jonot of speakin, s beaten on this eigenen, hho did not desire to take the tnftic. tive in it, but woul Sie gorerament’ Let tole then, serve an my nnuwer to ie ? i . ee “Ochoa, (Loud apelnuse) The Schema Debate in the Council—New Dee. cree of Regulation. ‘The following is the new decree for the regulation: of the Counci! issued to the fathers in the Holy City:— In the Apostolical Letter, Multtplices inter, iasned last November 27, thé Most High Pontiff constituted the general order to be observed in the celebration of the Vatican Council; and in that letter, besides other things, he prescribed certain fixed rules order to secure a proper system in the discussions of the fathers. Now, however, our Most Holy Lord, for the more easy attainment of that ob- ject, having regard also to the complaints repéatedly made by the fathers that the discussions Were protracted to an unreasonable length, out of Xpostolte solicitude, has determ! Bad ape 5 determined to lay down for the gen- they curry out the ge ia'Corese and do “4 not inter! with fon which Decbe . obtained wie oplalone of the be a; L popns sion for receiving and weighing the propositions m: ul it ‘Lord haa given th us the following or Kathers of the Special Commis. 1° ishops, our most holy dinance to be issued and observed :— Fi «Upon the distribution of a scheme to the Fathers of the Council, ine Cardinal Presidents of the general meet- {ngs shall name a reasonable period within which the Father who have any remarks to make on the scheme must present them in writing. ‘Second. —The remarks areto be arranged in the following order, viz. :—Those first which relate generally to the whole scheme, or to a division of it, as the I’residents shall bave appointed; then those which refer to the several of theacheme, the order of the scheme welt belag Ouly ob- —The Fathers who have any remarks to make either words cron the paragraph of the proposed acheine what form of wot or of paragray w ro~ hstitute for them, yn oh h—The remarks of the Fathers, thus arranged and cortified by thelr rignatures, shall be given to the Secretary of the Council, and by him forwarded to the respective com- mittees of bishops. ‘#ijth.—After those remarks have been daly weighed in the meeting of the committee charged with that subject, there abail be distributed to every Father an ainended scheme, together with a brief statement in which mention aball be mule of the remarke proposed to be nmde, ‘Sizth—The echeme, together with the said statement, bein; communteated to the Fathers, the Curtinal Prealdents shal tix a day for a yeneral, meeting in which the discussion is to be entered on, ‘Seomh—The discussion shall be first generally upon the acueme, whole or divided, aa the Cardinal Presidents shall tinnic pfaper, and when that discussion i concluded each ol mart fi part heme shall be bandied: rateiy, the ere always baving before them, in this ‘discussion or the ile, the form they propose to’ substitute for the period or the paragraph o: the amended scheme, which form they are to and in writing to the presidents at the conclusion of their speech. Highth.—They who wish to ‘kon the amended schem when they anvounce thelr intention to. the presi dents, shail explain atthe same time whether they wiah to speak gener- aily on the whole scheme, or specially on its pt ; a8 also on what part and with what special object tn view. aah, With the leave of the presl tents samaber of the o may rey ol ns . er, liter ima nediately “nian speech or after on the same subject, on eliher that or » fuuure dad, e Tin.—The speakers must confine themselves to the Subject. It any Father wanders off it it will be the duty of the Presi- dents to ca! him back to the question. Eleven.—If, the subject beet exhausted, the discussions are protracted to an unreasonable length, thea, upon {he pre, sentation of a request by at least ten fathers, the cardinal idents may put it to the question whether the meeting wishes the discussion to be continued, and, calling upon those who think otherwise to stand up, may close the ion if the majority in that way. When the discussion upon one partof the scheme is finished, before the meeting passes on to another, the Car- dinal presidents shail take the votes of the meeting, first upon ne proposed ‘amendments, then upon the original text o thicken discussed, nth.-The votes, both on amendments and also on the this test, shall be thus taken:—‘he Presidents shall first call on those to rise up who agree to the amendment or to the original text; then on those that disagree, and after @ compares of the votes the decision il be according to the majority. ‘Fourteentie-When the votes shall thus have been taken on ail the parts of the scheme, the Cardinal Presdents shall take the optaions of the Fathers upon the whole of the scheme that has been gone through, "But on this occasion votes shall be ziven vieg voce by the word Place or Noa mG being permitted, however, to those who wish to vote w: some condition, to give the vote and condition in wrning. 3 AUSTRIA. German Resume of the Papacy. The Neve Freie Presse of Vienna, of March 7, sums upin the following severe terins the history of the Popes:— From St. Peter (in supposing that he ever was at Rome) to Pius 1X, there have been 297 Popes, in- ciuding 24 antl-Popes and one female Pontill; 19 of them leit Rome and 36 reigned in foreign countries; 8 ruled @ month only; 40 one year; 22 two years; 54, five; 51, fiiteen; 18, twenty; and wine ouly for @ longer period. Among the 297, 31 were declared usurpers and heretics; Out of the 266 legitimate, 64 died of a violeut death; that ™ to say, 18 were poisoned aud 4 strangled, the rest perishing in other ways. Independent of the Popes of Avignon, 26 Pontiffe were deposed, expeiied an1 banished from Rome; 28 others could only maintain themselves by the aid of the foreigner. Out oi the whole number 153, or more than halt, showed themselves uniit for their office; 6, in spite of their vows, had children. Leo IV,, it 18 said, Was @ Woman, and died in child- birth. Urban V. conf is fallibility, and submitted to the censures of a council; two other Popes, Victor HI, and Adrian VI, confessed in pub- lic that they bad sinned, &c, * * * Certain it is that in this Jong history of Uhrist’s vicara note may be taken of frequent absences of the Holy Spirit. The New Electoral Law. At a meeting of legislative deputies held at the Ministry of the Interior at Vienna, March 9, M. Gis- kra announced that the Cabinet had agreed avout the bases of a new electoral law. According to this plan the number of members in the Reichsrath would be doubled, The different categories into which the electoral body is now divided would be maintained, and these classes would proceed direct to the formation of the second Chamber without tne intervention of the provincial diets, ‘’his system would give 111 seats to landed pro- prietors, twenty-eight to the Chambers of Commerce, 152 to.the rural communes, 115 to the urban, making @ total of 406, GERMANY. The New Criminal Codo of the Confederation. {From Galignani’s Messenger, of Paris, March 15.) The adoption of @ common system of criminal jurisprudence throughout North Germany has been long considered a desideratum, but it was not tlh after 1866 that any efforts in that direction had the smallest chance of success, In the twenty-two States composing the North German Contederation there are eight different systems of criminal law, which may be specified as follow: ian code of April 14, 1834, Adopted by the russia, the principality of Waldeck, the gra J duchy of Oldenburg and the free cily of Lub ‘Second—The Saxon revised criminal code of October 1, 18 ‘Valid only in the kingdom of Saxony. Third—The Grand Ducal Hessian code of September 1811, Adopted by the grand duchy of Hesse. Fourti—The Thuringian Criminal Code. Recognized the grand duchy of Sake-Weimar, the duchy of Meinin; the duchies of Coburg-Gotha, Anhalt, Dessau-Cothen Bernberg. It is Ikewise in ‘uso in ‘the principalities Schwarzburg-Kudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondersbausen, R (elder Ii \d Reuss (younger line). Fith—The Brunswick Code. Valid ip the duchy of B wick and the principality of Lippe-Detinold. ‘Sixth—'The Alienburg Code. only in the Du Altenburg. The Hamburg Criminal Code. Limited to the Seven enty of Hamburg. Highth.The General German Code. Adopted by the ¢ duchies of Meckienburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-8u: the principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and the free city view to removing the evils which nec sarily attended this multifarious criminal legis’ existing In the federal States, the Reichstag, cordance with article four of the constitution. on the Chancelior of the Conferation to pi with all possible despatch, the draft of a mon federal criminal code. aua to .submi game to the Reichstag. ‘This proposal 1} received the approbation of the Federal 0 on 5th June, 1863, the Chancellor requ the Prussian Minister of Justice to prepare the of a criminal code for the North German Confedera- tion, ‘The request was complicd with, and in th. month of Juiy, 1869, the draft of the new code war sent to the federal Chancellor, who submitted it the individual governments, a3 Well as vo several of the most eminent scientific men and legal practition- ers in North Germany. At the same time the work. was given to the public in @ printed form, in order, as Wag stated in the introddction, that all who pos- sessed the will and the ability night subject It to examinution, and contribute something towards its compieuoa or amelioration, AFRICA. The Situntion on the West Co The steamship Saxon, from the Cape, arri. at Piymouti, Eugiand, Mare) 9, with fifty-three pe sengers and thirty-tiree sacks Of matis, Her dates are:—Cape of Good Hope, 4tn February; Ascension, i6tn. News (rom Natal to the 22d January states tnat the gold flelds are paying. The uvortiern gold fields are closed against Buropeans till arrangements aye made with we new chiel of the Mababile, The meeting of the Natal Legislature was ° rogued to the oth April. The Cape Parliament opened on January 24, anc bill was brought in for the abolition of capital isinent. The Basnios had cleared out or the free Ste eonquered ter vitor arms there are selling w ‘Pable Bay venet On the 16 Ne