The New-York Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1866, Page 1

New-Dork F AL H . Ve XXVI.. 7,834, EUROPE. Arrival of the Java with Two Days Later News, THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. S ST ONS AGAINST IT. - [ ENGLISH BUDGET ¥OR 1866, — Progress of the German Question. AR SITUATION STILL CRITICAL. —_——— PRECAUTI e Aetive Military Preparations Going Porward. o ——— WAR FEELING ——— STRONG IN ITALY, Negotiations for a Furopean Congress, SFFICIAL BAPLAN —— ATIONS OF FRENCH POLICY. e t to Attack Anstria. o i ('R FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. —— taly Promises " The Royal M. Liverpocl at 11 0 Quecnstown on the afternoon of the awer Java, Capt. Moodie, which left ock ou the merning of the ith, and ith of May, arr b ) early bour on Wedne day morning, with two days luter news The Belgian arrived at Londonderry on the 4th at € . m., and reached Liverpool early on the 5th inst. A large ship-rigged steamer, supposed to be the City of Wacehington, pussed the Fastnet under 8 heavy press of eanvas and sicering well with an apparently temporary pudder, on the eve of the 4th inst. The steamer Helvetia, which left Liverpool on the 2d gor New-York bad put back with cholera on board. When the vessel reched Queenstown, the day after leaving Liserpool, several suspected cases of eholera bad broken ont among the German emigrants, and two deaths had already oceimed. She cousequently ordered to re- «urn 1o Liverpool forthwith. ‘The Hetvetia arrived back i the Merscy on the 4th, and was placed in strict quaran- tine, althongh it was found that there was only one case on board—that of an adult male German—in which the woxitory symptoms of the diseaso were minifost. All § 1he passengers, 817 in number, were to be trapsferred from the steamer to two large hulks on the 5th inst.—the healthy into ove, and those tainted with sickness into the other. The outbresk of the cholera among the German eii- @rants on these vessels was attracting much attention, par- tfienlarly 10 Liverpool, where the disease had shown itself while the emigrants were in trausit through the town. Keveral German families had been attacked,and two or ! three deaths had occurred. | Precautionary measures were being adopted, and it is | #4id the Goveriment had issued instractions to stop the | further admission of German emigrants into Englaad wutil they Lad passed @ full medical examiuation. Vers few of these emigrants remained in Eugland, and tel- egrams had been sent to the Continent, rel‘\:zllmg that no more emigrants should be sent to Liverpool for some time. The Health Committee were taking Vigorows measures for u complete sapervision of the German lodging-houses in Liverpool, which appear to have been greatly over- erowded. The v of Liverpool has been in communi- Office upon the sabject of the pre- mluwod by the local authorities. The X usy with arrangements for secs ing the complete cleansing of all lfi.:{r. houses and pli likely to be the hannt i plague. All the shipping otfices in Liverpoo were refudng steerage passengers from Ge many. Two fatal cases of cliolera were roparted as having tel in Paradise-st., which is the resort of < grants. The following Order in Council was published in the | official London Gazette Whereas o cortuin vessel named the Helvetio, daving a cer tain infections disesse on board, that is to say. the Asintio ebolera, has urrived, or is expected to_ srrive®, at Liverpool; and whereas it is expedient to cat off all communication ve- Sween persous on board that vessel infected with that Gisease and the rest of Her Majesty's subjects. Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them, the Lords of the Couneil do order, and it is hereby ordered: 1. That ia case of such vessel arciviog st Liverpool, having such disease on Board. mo person shall land from such vessel for the wpace of three clear duys after ber wrrival at Liverpool, with- ot the permission of the Mayor of Liverpool. 2. The Major pool sball fortawith cease all persous on board the said vessel to be examined by @ m)mn or surgeon, and shall permit all such persuns to immediately who shall be certified by such physician or surgeon o be free from such disease. 3. All persons certified by such physician or surgeon to be affected with symptows of b disease stall be removed, if their condition admiws of it, . tosome bospital or place 1o be designated for such purpose Ly " the Mayor of Liverpool; and no person so removed siall quit sach bospital or place until some physician or surgec have certified that such person is frec from the sail ase. 4 All persons offending sgainst this order sball be liable to sach penalties as are imposed by the said act of Puliament wpon persous offending against the provisions thereof Since the receipt of the circular recently issued by the Quaran:ine Departmg 4 stborities of the varions towns and ports of England, | several meetings of the Sanitary Committee of the Soutk- | srporation have been held with a view of adopt- ccessary steps to give effect to the Government In their deliberations the Committeo have had the | 1 advice of Dr. Parkes, professor of bygiene THospital; Dr. Wiblin, the superintendent of quarautiie ot this port, and Dr. M'Cormiack, the newly pinted officer of health. i | | e twken iu the tows itself for the prevention of sickness. | Al the courts and alleys are limewashed, lodging-houses eleansed or closed, gullies and drains trapped deodor- ized, all the nuisances reported by the house-to-house visitation at the close of the year have been removed, with 8 few exceptions still in progress, and & permanent stall of one medical officer charged with the health of the town, ote principal iuspector of nuisances, and four assistan spectors, who devote their ,whole time to sanitary Wessures, are actively engeged in the important duties, in wdition to the services of Dr. Wiblin, the Government Saperintendent of Quarantive at this port. o Great Britain. YL GLADSTONE'S PINANCIAL STATEMENT—NATIONAL UEBTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN EUROPE. In the Honse of Commous on the 3d inst. Mr. Gladstone | e his annual financial statement. He showed that the | sl expenditure of the year bad been £65914,000, while | e revenue had been £67,812.000. He had caleulated on Mossin the revenue last year of £4.028,000, by the re Rission of tases, &c., but the actual loss was only £2.- 6, For the ensning year he estimated the expendi fure at £6 000, and th enue at £ 67,575,000, leas. s probable surplus of £1,350,000. He proposed to | lish the duty on timber and pepper; to equalize the | duties on wine in bottles and 10 wood, to reduce the tax | ud to appropriate about £500,000 b of a portion of the publle debt iuto | temizable annuities. ‘l{me weasures would dispose of shout £1,064,000 of the surplus. 7.Gladstoue deprocated the propendity of governments | ccumulate debts, and Jflm the measure of cou- | Yersion which Le recommended would, by 1885, reduce the lish debt by about £50,000,600. Mr. Gladstone then | Merred, us follows, to the mational debt of the United | n":lnd the large countries of Europe: chapter of national debts 18 assuming, I think, a painfal o daletul prominence as 8 social and political fact of mod- ’ experience. (Hear.] I do not know whetber the House ANSI6 1o what extent this mischievous abd injurious proosss £oiog on, but [ will refer first to what I do'not besitate to lebt contemplate with the least anxiet , and that is the uufllh United States, The debt of the United Statex iy in tometling woderful—wonderful as the creation Jears. strictly of four years, saud vo more —and ougting t uearly 63.000,000,000, oF £60.000,000. and €rowth of the debt in the lest year exceeded, 200,000,000, That is & wonderful debt, and . - ble in the present Ll T i . ooy 0 Vo 1 1 el believe T am not Wrong in say- “ Lt the charge of debt in cousiderably beavier than V'giiaeegh the capial v less. [ Hewr, bear, The smaliessim stimate serling; if upog the gunhl or 32m arlivg; { that is t of the Privy Couucil to the |} confess that 1 think the frtare of Americs, o far as finance is concerned—political problems are mot mow in question—will not be attended with any embarrassment. I donot believe that that debt will constitul for the American people. [Cheers.) te any difficulty 1 am confident that if they show with Tespect to finance any portion of that extraor- ke dinany resolution which on both sides o & which, on the return of pesee, they hav stions aud gigantic establishments broi pression which was once fashionable in thi e ¢ this moment America is, I beli not less, 1 lazgest sum ever raised in any ¢ central government. The estimated s 0 30,000,000 sterling a about ten millions of their taxatio #l impatience of the peaple with 1 that have been imposed. Mr. Mc( that country, strongly ure: and T am quite certain that from this o b te debt, ndly notion, and becanse it may be hoped of Ameriea will react beneficially on this co 1 hute here the natio timated from t} that, with the exc trastworthy data I cou d, 1 the tinances of Prussi find, acts 5,000,000, Rossin's debt is es 000,000, ebt, and 1t is made up of Rentes of 21 years' 1t to £400,000,000. e nearly as po est of these debts, yet, b the country. and the euaryy pe ple, one need, al debts of nine conntries in Eur prudent] The d they mas ught their mon in modern bounds {hear, bear). —1 wor't say tiat this debt, according to an ex- country, will be a [a laugh], but that ju & moderate time it will be bt within very small limits, and may, even within the w0 of persons wow Liviug, be effacea altogether, eve, paying the nato 01 e Finance Minis. the policy of reducing the f the water we siall send him a hearty expression of good wishes for bis success, both on acconnt of ear interest in the well-being of wis that the e untry. [Che uld obtain, el of good nd ar r Prussis's debt stands at £43,000,000, and ti the larg osted ing the war, and of that equally remarkable resolution with ] ar taxes, and the amount of the revenue of the United States is apprehend, than about #0,000,000 of money, the try for the purposcaof a olas is from 20,000,000 ear, and 1 believe at present only menaced b e of the taxes 1 find on of Holland's, there is not one of these that bas vot been virtually contiacted duriug the last twenty years—a time of peace; for if there has becn any war expen- Jituce added tothem during that time it is insignificant in and reduces awe, and, as NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1866. .oy Tribnne, 10 defend sbould it be threatened. *Lord Bloowfield 18 said to have declarea to Count Mensdorff that snogld Austria resew any peacetul offr to I ait would bénergetically supported by Englant at the Prassian urt. “The Vienna papers consider it certain that war will break ont in & few days. An ordinance of the Miuister of War pub- liehed, orders that new conseripts shall be immetintely en volled'intotheir reviments. The appointment of Gen, Ben- cdek a Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the North s daily expected. . The armements of Austria continne. Many foreigners have left Vienua. A telegram from Prague wi- uounces that all portable church property, as well as the valu. ables of the ex-Emperor F nd, have been sent to Vienns.” Prince Napoleon had arrived at Florence. 'he Italian Government had concluded a new loan of 000,000 livre with the National Bank of Italy. The Government releases the Bank from the obligation of pey- ing its notes in specio on presentation. Popular demonstrations in_favor of the national arma- ments continue to be reported from various places in Italy, At Naples, the Nutional Guard had expressed their wish 1o relieve the troops that were garrisoning the town. A Florence dispatch of the 4th says: Tt is confirmed that Austria had declared ber readiness to co liex army in Venetia upon a complete peace footing, if y has no intention of attacking that province. The Italian Government, in re ¢ to this declaration, repeated that its armaments were purely defensive, and that ' Italy had o in- German princely families, whose existeace Le would be forced | stocks. Shareslnve also fallen: Erles are quoted 483@49}, and Diinois Centml, 771 @734, verPOOL, May 5—morning, Cotton has been in the weight of the stock ud in the absence of re. #0 long felt regarding continental peli- farther dechino of fully 1. per pound. The d ition fiat was evident on the part of the trade on Thursday mornitg, the 3, to buy more freely received a check from the advaneeof the Bank rate to 7 per_cent, and the mar- ket closed that dey with inereased heaviness and irregularit American decined daily until Wednesday, when pric slightly raliied, bit they again relapsed and closed at 1@ ljd. dechne onthe we'k. The sales of the week amounted to Co110%.—The Brokers’ Circu limited demand firoughout th weel continuing its dawressiug influence, 49,6530 bales, incluling 4,650 on speeulation, aud 1,550 for ex- port. The author.zed quotations are as foliows: Fair, Middtiog. New-Orleam.. 16§ 14id, Mabile. i 14d. Upland. 134d. Texas . 16§ 1. Yesterday (Frday) the sales wero about 6,000 bales, includ- ing 1,500 for exmrt aud specalation; the market civsing dull. The stock on hand is 754,630 bales, including 328,430 Ameri- . At seafran India 604,000 bales, end from Awerica, TRADE AT MAIQUESTER.—The market yesterday continu very flat. Littie bo as done, and prices favored buys BREADSTUYFS.—Viessrs, Richardson, Spence & Co.,” and Wakefield, Nash & Co, roport: Flour slow of sale, but pric unchaaged. Wheat in moderate demand, at previous rates. tention of taking the initiative in hostilities.” —-— Rumors of n Congres, It was asserted in Paris that negotiations were being carried on between England, France and Kussia for the assembling of a European Congress. The London Morning Post says it has reason to believe that such negotiations were going actively on. A S France, Legislatif on the 3d, M. Rouher made the ation on the part of Government in refer- f political affairs: Tn the Corps following decls 1o the sta o e e y [ “ GENTLEMEX: Tho examination of the bill fixing ¢ it is increasing Wi portentous stride contingent has appeared to some members of this e o o T Ot otedl "t | furaleh a natoral opportanity for discuatiog the afairs of Ger. 00" e ihe ekt of Tbey whioh T pelieve to | Many. The Govemment is cosvineed that it caanot todey Do éatirfly o modern institotion, prizcipally created sinee | S0SOPt this discussion without incurring whel Sevio? Faonlr the Crimean war, amounts to £51,00000. ‘The great balk of | garope, and cause the greatest anxioty in the pabllo mind, the dehts, smountiog altogether to §1,500,0 in A time of peace, al conutics during e struggle for troable the Committce with details of their iut, emitting Holland, which has decr ting Prussis, which does rot babitu: ting Spain lso. vhich kecps its debt vearly at an eqailibrium lter! v e heve six of the uine countries who have u crense their debts during s time of pesce at the aunval And tuis is erowing, for, like {ian to i rate of £61,000,000 storhng. other bad 1 bnts, debt-making has o tendene yope should,therefo sight puint of view. country spent t harvest beside preserved in these nine ¢ amount 1o circumstaie wparativ great mis hief that ¥ £4,000,00 000. # little matter, from usetl profiable purposes for that i even worse than unproductive expendisore, but it is an enormous political diff- culty which is being gradually stored up by this most improv- ident course. ave uot been thrown o d ita debt, and omit 00,000, bavs secu life. rate of in e t, and_omit naged s tospremd. Eu know the increase, and look at it from the It is spending in a time of sonrces of war; 1t is exacily a8 1f 1n o year of good harveet the whoie of that good harvest and half another and it should be remembered that if peace be arope for the rest of the century, the debts of utries, ot the present rates of increase, would These are reslly portentous .1t 18 not merely the money engugements; It i not only a very or 70 millions sbou'd be drawn away ace the re. upon n erument is boand to declare to the legislative body and the country the character of the policy which it has pursued, what is its present attitude toward the German Powers, and more particularly what is its position with regard to Italy. 1 am about to faliill this duty by a_declaration, the brevity of Which will not exclude clearness or precision. (Cheers.] The policy of the Emperor's Government in the question of the Elbe Duchies has been invariably pacific. While conscious of its personal dignity, as well as the reeard dus to tho in- dependence and the legitimate susceptibilities of the Powers with whom it entertained friendly relations, it has always from the commencement, as well as in the succeeding phases of this question, ut Copenhiagen, at the Conferences of London, Vienna, and Berlin, proffcred pradent and moderate counsel. Tt still continues, with no less energy, its eflorts to preserve tho peace of Europo agairst regretable cou y what singular contradiction. in tact, could the Gove seck to develop public prosperity at home, and to mark its progress by international solemnities, and at the same time remain indiffer ent to dangers that may arise abroad from the sbock of rival assiona ! [Cheers.) Our efforts for the maintenance of peace have therefure only been limited by a fira determination not 1o fetter France with any obiigations—(fresh e approval from the H; ber froed toward the Powers estions, which do pot, after all, affect eith ty, or the dircet in the honor, the dig The papers genezally approve the budget. The Tines | toroqts of our conntrs—was it siot the duty of the Emperor's remarks that if it Lus 1o other claims to attention it will | Goyernment, after baving prociaimed ite paciie tendencies, deserve to be remeiabered as that in which the duty of the | 1o reepect and practice the rules of loyal and sincere neutral- 58 ng generation to posterity,in reference to the National | ity, in order to remain free in ita resolutions in face of co i | Qcbt, was first insisted upon ehequer. THE The Pall Mall G Russell Gurney, Q. C them the report of the Jomaica Commission, whi unaninously asreed upon between themselves and Sir H. and will be laid bef e Parliament with all possible b 'The blue-book will bo one of the largest ever Stor dispat seen, being swelled ont by a mass of o well u8 by the voluminous notes of evidence premature to speculate on the tenor of the report, but it can hardly be doubted that Gov. Eyre will be recalled by the next fuail.” The correspondent of The Times in Jamaica observes of imons, ** and will tattach to it as soldier of bigh d of two t judicial offices in the Commissioners’ report that it is un bave, therfore, all the weight which et forth the conenrrel i position, and great admi able lawyers, both holding importa tnzland.” The report and notes of evide Cupy less than 2,000 pages of the usual bl THF GREAT BASTEKN STEAMSHIP COMP. ‘The report of the dircctors, to be subm prietors st an extraordiusry ge rative experie after full defibe arrangement had struction aod Ma utcnane for laying a secoud Atlantic cable, paying jon on the part of t addition 1o all toe expenses) £12,000 iu cash, in auy event, over the period of the charter. by iastallineits extending n the new cable of 1366 being succe charte vious cherter. The charterers b taining the ship after laying the cable of ment of £1,000 per month, and £10 per successially laid, with the proviso that the minimum pay- than at the rate ment to tiis company shall be not le of £20,000 per snnum. The directors rs are to transfer to this company of the Anglo-American Telegraph Com paid up: and, in the event of the cable of Y a Chancellor of the Ex- MATCA MASSACRES. tte says: ** We understand that Mr. ., and Mr. Maule have brought with was iy Iv would b nee, cated events? Accordiugly it has determi use of this liberty tor the nccompliskment of & mission which will be easy toit, iz, that of protecting the power, the se- eurity, an reatuess of Franco against every sttack. Special duties were imposed upon us with respect to a nation to which we are attached by traditional sympathies, strength- ened by a recent confraternity in arms. Iialy may velieve herself called upon 1o intervene actively in the conflict which threatens to arise between Prussia and Austris. Every nation is the judge of its own in- tarests; we do uot pretend to exercise any guardisnship over Italy, which is free to act as she chooses, becanse sbe ix alone responsible. (Loud cheers.) Dut tae interest we feel toward ber obiiged us {to come to a eategorical understand- ing with ber; thus she is aware, from our reiterated declarations, Ihat as we should higily disapprove any attack of Ansiria upon her, 30 are we perfectly decided to cast upon her the risks and dan acrs of amy aitack she may make wpon Austria. (Prolonged Cneers | The declaration of the Guvernment is therefore wammed up in three words—a pacific policy; loval neutrality; complete liberty of action. ‘Lhie Government fecls confident tiat this line of conduct, which maintains our complete i pendence, which deterwioes and circamscribes our resp o ce will not oc- | Liiien o conformable to truth and_jostice, and o ie-book size. these gro e approbation of the Chamber and of ANY, LIMITED. | the country.” (Prolonged applaase. ) jtted to the pr Thiers attacked the conduct of Prussia, and asked 1 meeting of the com- ¥, to be held in Loudon on the 7th iustant, states that, irectors, an 1 made whereby the Telegraph Con- ‘ompany are to have the ship for th ame (in ssfully laid, th also the option of re- 1866, on the pa; wile for all cabl e no doubt tha , 000 any that the French ( uient should send an energotic veto to Berlin and Florence, M. Jules Favre declared that he fully agreed with the remarks of M. Thiers, with the exccption of that portion Jf his speech which referred to Italy. » | M. Kouher in the nume of the UGovernment, requested {hat the debate should not be prolonged, and antounced that a telegram had been received stating that Italy en gaged not 10 attack Austria. fl Olivier declined to speak after the declaration made by M. Rouher. ‘A rumor has been current in Paris that 10,000 French goldiers would shortly be sent to Rome. o completed, this company is to receive in ordinary stock of the Atlan- The weekly returis of the Bank of France exhibita craph Compauy. ‘us specified in the pre- | farther increase of over 9,000,000 francs in the cash on und. ‘The Paris Bourse on the 4th was very unsettled. Rentes farther declined, closing at 64@67. g el Holland on the 34 raised its rate of dis- t The Bank the proprietors will coneur with them in cousidering the A 0 above arrangement very satisfactory, and tney venture to | count from 5 to 6 per cent. express thear corfident belicf that the expedition of this ———— vear will be a complete success. The ship will go to sea Indi fitted with every appliance, which the on the last occu mousting any difficulties which may selves during the operation. the charter, threo received from the ¢ dne montLly; so that ear wouth as may be found practicable. aceounts 1o the 31st December last, duly audited i Aw anticipated in the last report, a further and tinal-divi- dend has been received from the trustees bonds of the Great Ship Co the ship. THE HABEAS CORPUS, On the 4th, in the House of Commons, there wasa de- u the babeas corpus suspension nothing of moment resu TIPROCITY. Mr. Watkin Government in reference to it. expressing regret that timely negotiatios procure the revival of the Treaty and would look with satisfaction upon any h muy tend to perpetuate friendly relations between the t is satisfactory to add that every precaution has been | United States and Her Majesty's possessions in North Ameris Before Mr. Watk was counted ont, there not being a quor THE FENIANS. Another attempt to assassinate a Dublin Poliee Officer It was not successful, although the man Two men had taken place. was not out of danger. outrage. The position of affuirs still continued critical, aud active ‘warlike movements are reported. Austria is said to hav last Prussian dispatch, declaring that she to the extent desired by Prassia. The official Berlin Staats Anzciger of t Concurrent intelligence from variovs quarters s been re- ceived. which admit 1o longer any doubt of the fact that the bilization of the Austrian forces which hus been effected by egrees will shortly be co A Berlin telegram of the “Ofticial reports from the genera 3d say troops are daily arr ut be aflirme view of of a large number Sbould the announc transport of trooys with th army upon our own fro rumors that the Prassian army has been mob weats will now take place immediately.” The sewi-official Procinzial licia, and when she ceases to adop of defense against Italy upon pre ernment is not preparing for war. important matters which will shor! both Austria and Prussia must be disarme A Berlin telegram of the 4th says: “Prussin i+ making great preparatio Wittenburg for tie concentration of a Saxon frontier, Orders were issne Minister of War to place the Sixth Corp on & war footing. 1tis rumored that as tors held yesterday it was d whole Prussian army, with the Khine Provinces. “-An advertisemont has been issued the 2d Army Corps calling on tenders for the for the cavairy and draft horses for th nieved that similar steps will be taken by several other beadquasters.” A circular dispateh has bee; ernment to their representatives at fore) ing that the negotiations which have of the military preparations made b which also rendered pecessary the Ttalian dispatch casts upon Austria the full responsibility of any yents which may ocour hereafter. A Vienna dispateh of the 4th says: ‘ Rej of mediation continue. at Borlin bas ted to the Ki Jetter of the Emperor of Russia, in w! MY Frabwhe shakus Do Ll R In pursuance of t stallments of £1,000 e Those payments become 2 July o sum of £6,000, from this source will bo in band and’ available for dividend. The Directors, therefore, propose to pay an interim divi dend of six per ceut (free of income tax) us carly in that ‘The statement of nnexed utiers bas airesdy commence e artillery. the commanders of xperience acquired in Las' shown 10 be necessary for sur- sent them- P ® terins of b have bee et of the pauy held by this Compny, which amount has been applied in reduction of the cost of in Ireland, b R called attention to the termination of the Reciprocity treaty and to the course pursued by the He moved a resolution n had failed that the Hon measure wh in concluded his specch the House m present. weio arrested for the | aly. sent a telegraphic reply to the ould not disarn he 3 says: 11n command of the Sixth Prussian Army Corps announce that means {or the transport Prague. t would result that the ceutrating an Austrisg The premu- ture, but it 1s helieved that an increase of tie Prussian’ arma. iving in d. bilized a a ‘Correspondens of Berlin says Prussin will disarm when Austria withdraws ber re- enforcoments from Bohemia, Moravia and Western Gal- ot the so-called measures 0of that the Italian Gov- In order to discuss the tly require consideration, d. ms in the District of corps d'armee on the d yesterduy from the ps, stationed in Siles| the Conueil of Miu decided to mobilize immediately the the exception of the corps d armee in from the headquarters of supply of ehary sy It s » issued by the Russian Gov- n courts, explain- g question of disarmarent have led to no result on account Austria and Veneti n place on th aments. T © Russian Embassador & of Prussia an sutegraph Which_reference in SO made to . VArious | bikvieod 2dii kg Glued @b Ui, ewvbliup wuiug W vhger | BosBAY, April 30 —Cotton depreased; shipments during the past fortoinght, 45,000 bales. Freights to Liverpool, 40/, Piece goods lower. Exch 9) CALCUTTA, April, Freights 45/. Tndiy depressed. f Livenroor, 5, s, Two tugs left Queenstown to assist the wship Cif of Washington, reported to have passed Capo Clear last evening. The political situation continucs eritieal. VIENNA, May 4—Evening. Prussia is said to have declined all negotiation®n the | definitive solution of the question of the Duchies, on the Panis, May 5—p. . basis proposed by Aus n The Memorial Diplomatique de that ‘{r.uu(- has made energetic remoustrances at Vienna relative to Aus- trian armaments in Venetia, and says that the dispatch sent to Vienna on the subject was eouched in most cour and solely requested confidential explana tions respecting the objeet of the Austrian preparations. The Austrian Government replied, protesting it would maintain a strictly defensive attitade. France aceepted ations, and the result was s mutual undel standing secording to which, should Italy attack Ven independently of France. Austriawill not secure for he relf any of the eventual results of victory without the diplomatic intervention of France. t i8 ssserted that one object of Austria in menacing Prussia and 1taly 18 to foree England to assent to the Cou vention of a European Congress. May 6, 1866 Loxpox. Prussia has declared to the Diet thut the wailike prepa- ratious on hier part are entlrely defonsive. The Austrian reply to the last Prussian note was con- ciliatory, but she declines to disarm uuder present circum- stances. Warlike preparations in Venetia were being pushed for- ward with great energ) A popular demonstration has taken place in Padua, re great excitement prevails. 5 rumored that Venetis will immediately be placed in a state of seige. Tho Paris Bourse closed heavy last evening, at 64@65c, for the Rentes. The Bauk of Fraukfort has raised its rate of discount to SiX per cent. Nothing has yet been heard of the steamship City of Washington since the Propontis left her. The disabled steamer reported off Crookhaven was from Melbourne. | 1 o | | o | t i the Bank of England slow wnd o large increase in the bauk not On the 3d the Directors of the Bank a discouat from 6107 per cent. ~The Times wmand for money and the high rate of discount must be at tributed to overtrading, and relief ¢an only be looked for by s sudden contraction. The article says: ““How far this can now be effacted without serious disaster, s 8 question that will doubtless be influenced by the effect which the news of the reaction bero will huve in such centers of our trade as New-York and Bombay. A the former city a severe pressare is likely to be felt, because, in addition to any inconvenience from the fall of cotton and the shorteniug of credite, they will bave to provide for a considerable smouut of Unllud States bonds, undersiood lately to have been sent o Mesera. Guion & Co.'s monthly statement of British textile manufactares shipped from Liverpoal to the United States sbows a dimination for Apri) of wbout 50 per cent compared with February and Marctl, Ayd about 60 per cont_compared with the four previous months. The Daily News's City article thinks this diminution indicates that the exports to America will Dow go Lk to the more natural supply which existed befure 191, and say: ““Thus far the doult which was sttempted to be raised some months 8go as to_our receiving the equivalent in settiement from the United States, bas bad no foundation in fact; on the contrary 8 considerable amount of American securities has beeu ret! Intely as a remittance to settle the balance of trade, else we should very probubly bave been obliged to make sbipments of gold.” Consols on the 4th opened firmly but closed at & decline, #6} @kl ‘Ihere continued a full dermand for discount at the advanced ° rate. The foreign Exchanges were advancing, especially on Aus- Corn steady, at 259229 per 480 I for Mixed, sud 50/6 @31/ for White. ProvIsiONs.—Masrs. Bigland, Athya & Co.. and Brice & MeAuliffe, report : Boef quiet at 110, @120/. Pork in only re il demand. Baco, depressed and 1/ @3/ lower on the week, Batter, rather wore doing, but at low rates. Cheese inactiy Lard, nothing doing and prices nominal, Tallow quiet at 4 @476, FRop ‘The Brokers' Circular reports; Ashes quiet at 33/ for Pots, and &%, @37/6 Pearls. Sugars fitmer, and 3261 above the lowest point. Coffes very quiet. Rice little doing. tk; sales of Batimore at 7/6. Cloverseed—American Red wselly at 36/ @39/, Sperm Oil, sales at £128. Liverpool Ol dull and easier at 41/6@42/. Rosin quiet and unchanged Common, 7/ @7/6. Soirits Turpentine: sales of French at i7 PiTROLEUM—Liout, English & Brandon report very little i..!.'n‘-; Kefined, )/ 122/ per gallou; Spixit, 1j@11; Crude, 0. LONDON MARKET',—Baring Brothers & Co, report: Wheat quiet but steady. Fiour 2 ‘u”/ # bbl. Iron quiet; Kails and Bars $615/; Scotch Pigs 70/, Sugars_quiet but firm. Coffee active at fall rates, Tea unaltered. Rice easier for soft grain. Spirite Turpantine 50/ for Americ: 2 for common American, Petre Linseed Cakes in fair dem. bols. Sperm Oil £i24@£125, Cou £4710). steady at 38/, Copper lower. LATEST. LiverrooL, Saturday evening, May 5, 1806, pales, inclading 1,500 d m quiet at2 ad at £11 10/ for New Vork, Linseed Oil Midaling Uplands about 131d. Brrapstiers—The market is quiet and steady. Provistoxs—The market is dn{l. TLoxvox, Saturday evering, May 5. Consols lose at 86} @EG] for money. for the redistribution of seats—of which moro hereafter— will be Iaid before the House, and then we shall be ena- bled to judge of the Reform measure in its entiroty. Meanwhile, it would be altogether prematare to sappose that the Franchise bill has survived its severest trisl, now that it has serambled through its second reading, It may be emaseulated in committee, ~ An attempt will - undoubt- edly be made to raise the qualification from £7to £81in the boroughs, and from £14 to £20in the counties; and Jjudging from the division-list of Ssturday last, we caunot but judge that such a proposal will be backed by a power- ful éecession from Ministerial ranks. nch A com- promise would be absolutely fatal to the eff But the Governinent is commi its vital points, and cannot concede them without Aund the Liberals of England will certainly not to be put off with the mcre name and pretense of aRetorm bill, s mockery, a delusion, a ¢nare and & hum: Yet they are not over-contident or sangnine as to the sucerss of the present attempt at popularizivg Brit- ish institutions, thongh convineed that it is better for them to be fairly defeated now than to have their offorts paralyzed for o time by a.merely nominal snceess, Tho ultimiate decision rests with the'country. 1If the constitu- encies and the unrepresented masses show they are in carnest i their demand for reform—resolved to huve it— Parliament will consent, and not without. But if there be 10 exhibition of stroug popular feeling, the Lill is prob- 3 W mned to death by mutilation. If one point bas been brought out mere prominently than another in the eourse of the lats debates, 1t is the rdity of endeavoring to reconcile the conflicting of those who advocate s restricted frauchis are really beginning to see the absurdity of making o rental of a 46, £7 or £10 house the test of 4 man's fitness to the possession of e vote for a member of Parlia- ccially when it is remembered that, even if the ale were adopted, large numbers of the most portions of the community would still remain led from the clectoral franchise, Experience has wn that o eurtailment of the sufirage affords no guar- y that & model constituency | thereby be created— you can't have all the virtues above a certain arith- al figure, aud confine the vices to those benesth it. politieal sheep and the goats are of all classes. Nor it be doubted that public opinion has taken a rapid Quring the last few weeks, and that very respectable s who, a sh time ago, contémplated with a sort ror the possibility of sueh a demoeratic proposal as sodd sull " e gotting to regard it not ouly as a but probable seltlement of the great quetion nich 18 now agitating the eount ‘The heresy of the t, too, finds strenuous advocates and believers. Very ally it is getting to be suspected that an American o (which an orthodox Englishman somehow sap- onymous with rowdyism) can't present scenes of disorder and bribery and corruption than 1in this country ot the last general election. The League i8 making way, and altogether we are of course, like Britons—but moving. It was to u row of sulky aud sullen faces that Mr. € ad- AXERICAN NTOCKS.—United Btates Fivetwenties 674a074; | stone—Llooking exe y pile, but resolute—mide his Uiluoi Coniral Radrond, 754 @74, Esle Rabroad, 181473, | b ccment on Sonday, Whed it war reeeived_withot e PRy A any mark of ewotion, the matter seeming to be FROM LONDON. treated as one of business and procedure rather than as S o f sometbing akin to s Ministerial crisis. fore intimated the Tories abstained from Talk About the Recent Contest in Parliament iberals were perhaps agreeably surprised— Happencd Hud They Resigned ittec— Progress of Liber: Anemalies- From Our Special Correspondent. Loxpox, May 5, 1866, went of the division—and & close one involving the fate o & Ministry stimulates Englisnmen like the Dert prize-fight— | battles over ugain, and speculations and ingenious hypo theses, showing N different but for tal canses, Hood, ** that Boz weald re-write Oliver Twist over again, supposing his hero NOT to have met with the Artfu Dodger on his road to meet Lis fortune.” The Govern er bave found a mouth-picce to th s in politician, they or the couraze to wct u clivities. A word or have written already of so by patent): He'may be justly provounced the most brilliant politieal failure of the age. addition to what enthusiasm, he ia yet won- and insolent—therefore just iritual capacity for belief & On the whol acknowled, majority in fave population of E; the fingers of one hand. tion by saying that the dis votes on record the - that in one of the larg or of admitting one-t tly well ki was mot needed, It is pe egndes went over to the Tori zeal for redistribution, but because t .,Lpr.-ml to a r ion of the fra this, one is the less likely to form with regard to the future pr Amid the * wind and talk " curious caleulation has turned up. Here iti 1o the briefest: According to the last census, cond 0 Noes " h tions numbering 13,102,047; the * Ay of the Ministry and the lnll—n-un-n nt 15,07 | shows a difference in favor of the Liberal nearly 2,000,000, These of populations, uot ele Of the latter, speaking by their representative calculation on this head informs us that while the ** Noes 93,118; so that of the wealth of the count wis £ i in'the various constituencies, o prepondoran inclnde tion propitious to Reform. It was rumored in Parliament lmmedmel{ after the division, that Goverument would resign; and he manner in which Mr. Gladstone stated when he should communi- cate its intentions was certainly that of o defeated minis- ter. Punch is substantially correct; it was, ‘M stone (1o the House), * On Monday look House (steroly), *On Monday be it then. may have been the first_ thoughts of the Ministers, their second, after the Cabibet Council of Saturday, were in favor of retaining offico—Time will show with what wis- dom. I think none but the most ardent, most uncompro- mising of Liberals wanted o dis known to dislike it; parties and ca shunning the expenses of general at lurgo. regards one something in the light of a nuisance. So, though it is next to a dead certainty that a new House ‘ommons would be far more liberal than the present erstonized one (*even in bis ushes lives his wonted fires ), the cost is counted ns greater than the gain, A resignation now would have been another matter, and one that I have heard shrewdly advocated. In that case, the Ministers would have thrown upon the Tory party the alternative of trying to carry on the Government ina House where they in u decided minority, or of appealing to the constitnencies on a cry of No Reform; and iu either case, their speedy disastrous defeat would be inevitsble. No wiser tactics, ut times, than to give your encmy enough mln wherewith to bang bimself. What said Corlyle, in his inburgh speech, of Phocion's elogquent withdrawal: ‘ake your own way and see what comes of it; let me out vernment determinstion very amiably; nor do the Tories (conscious of their own woakness) pretend to much forgiveness, of triumphant complacency; venting I-told- s und l)nn'l-.\usl--pml\ 1 the splritof uach’s big , its importance, impeccability and immaculateness—as if there was no such Ih}:x:n lection wonth or more, with their disclosures of bribery and cor- ruption. There is no more popular parlismentary a8 if it constituted the nation, and summed-up all that was worth maintaining within the four seasof Britsin. But to judgment of Mr. Gludstone and Ea ussell, and still more 1n the cause of Reéform and the ple. The question has ltogether.” However, the Libes bave accepted the cavil. They rather assume an air of superior wisdom and ¥ talk, 48 Lowe did, inordinately of committees and we hadn't been surfeited, for the last doodle than that—the House never seems tired of it—just retarn to the Libernls, they have great confidence in the it got tremendously ventilated, and only settlement of it for trin n.dLl , thie quotations on those countries befug alwost Baring's Circular savs United Bomin: AMERICAN SECURITIPS, the presaure of sales under Con- Staten Five twenties bave fo some time can content Englishmen, as even the owed enemies of the Bill cons have con X wo are willng to believe that in refainiug office the Ministry las consulted not only its own inferests Dub tiuae vl Mesom, Us Mopduy Ded (1o #1D), tho bill —~How the Bill May Be Mr. Gladstone’s Tmpend- for the Redistribution of Nemts— This week we talked about the culwination and crisis of the last, until Mr. Gladstone's budget gave us another topie—hardly equaling reform in interest. The excite- ,ora pt tongues and pens busy enough, each side claiming the victory, just as Tories and Liberals cheered and counter-choered in the House of Commons. There were, a8 4 matter of course, the usnal profitable fighting of T remmit wieht have been entirely “T wish,” wrote ment bill did meet that exceedingly Artful Dodger, Robert r inhesently base pro- 1 this * Right Honorable” (he is A man of powerful bruin and torpid sympathies, with neither m ntal nor ird of the working ngland to the franchise can be counted on There is no use begging the ques- ion took place on o collateral issus, and not upon the question whether Reform was or own that the 33 , 1ot from any excessive wero ot heart Remembering n incorrect estimate volved by the decision, one — the anti-Reformers of the recent vote—represent popula- —the -n‘:pnr ™ 077,570, w! represent the amount of £3,712,116 assessed to the property and Income-tax, the amount represented by the * Ayes” 2,451,002 was in favor of the bill. Altogether a calculu- rous of d one doesn't know whoray be un- o in case of a dizsolution. And thronghoat the week there a8 been s comparative trice on the question of Reform, which for the next seven days may rage Lercer th ver, On Mouday Mr. Gladstoue introduccs his bill cdictribution, 1t1s ramored that it will ¢ seats from sir 11 boroughs to larger constituen half of the number being given to towns, one-lalf to coun- es: “hat total disfranchizement i8 not contemplated in but it Is anticipated that vacaueies will be cre- extent indicated by grouping places of minor importauce topether. ‘The nithod of associuting several towns i1 the choice of represoutatives was largely adopted i 1522 with respect to Scotland and Wales. 1t can hardly be eonsidered that the rate of partial disfranchisement ascribed to the Government is excessive, when it is recol- Jected th. are at present 62 boronghs which have fuwer than ‘lectors apiece, and that many of these places Live two members. Such constituencies miay, t for they are human thorefor consider thewmselves tenderly dealt with, if, fu- stead o1 being totally extinzuished, they are ailowed to their inordinate electoral privileges with their neigh- f On the other band, the claimants of nnrepresented towns, with a population of from 20,000 to 30,000, ought to he question of the comparative right of ¢18 aud counties to participate in the distribution of the 1 scats is more complicated, and will, no doubt, oceasion wuch dispute, The shire constit are Lot 0 amply represcuted us the boroughs—a very aucient dis- nd are lessened by the Keform billof 1530, At t the votivg power of the rural elector is, on the average, onl hnl’lhu of utownsman, AMr. Gladstone's are wil probably aim %o reetify some of these ano- and bear about the same proportions to the bill of En- But it is all that caa be ventured at present. John ome out in its s at o Manchester meeting, 1 province, of extending representation to the pe gland. Lowe, ext, of Tic Tymes and Cal It, & majority of Budget the papers of yesterday will five, which its enetn es claim to be no majority at all. For Here it is in Urief: thero is no nse disguising the fact that to ** Bob” is mainly Tho eatimated expendi- owing that fearful sloughing off of Adullamites, as they ad been £ e nw pencrally called, after Jobn Bright's witty He- | 234,000, Tho estima by allusion. Bt for this disappointed, en ned | 72,000, while the actual revenne was £67.8 Jitar. was as : Canrge on funded debt....... . ) Cousolidated Fud eharge. 3 1,188,000 Army G 145,000 Navy . 10,406,000 Collection of revente 5,331,000 Packer service 3 611,000 Mise allaneous civil service. 7,860,000 erfully skilifl, ingenio insolent—th s e tho leader for duller apostat A e B e B L e o o e iy of Lancaster. (hatond Of Mr. | Crotsusa e o£k 400,00 | Post.Ofes..... Goschen,grandson of & bookatall-keeper in Leipsic fuir,the 000 | Crown lands. . . bill would huve pussed by more than a nominal majority. | Stamps 150,000 | Miseeilaneous . But enter the region of liypothesis you may come out any- Assessed tazes 3,400,000 whero if Eve hadn’ t eaten the apple, we should all be in | Proporty tax...... 5700,00] Total. Paradise. ** Events are in the saddle and ride maukind.” ving an estimated surplus of £1,330,000, e propossd ‘therefore, it is wiser to accept results and o the duty on wine in bottle and in bulk, whick would s of £35,000; abolish the duty on p @ wileazo duty on omnibuses from 1d. 1o 4d. per wile, e 24 July, £61.000; and reduce 1 rawn by horses, £16.000. He then turned to which bo proposed with respect to the National o explained at some length his proposal with respect the chlef feature of whioh is that be wishes to £24,000,000 invested b Banks wita the Commissioners futo terwinable annuities, tment of surplus fu) By theae opera- the Exchequer expeets to reduce the l Debt by £39,500,000 in 165, The cost will bo about £500,000 & year. and this, tegether with the other reductions, would reduce the surpius to §256,000. It scems to give satisfaction to everybody; even the Tory papers accept it with a_few storeotyped sueers about “ rockicssuess” and “ sensational finances” Everybody will be content with the addition of the duty on tiinber, anid be glad to get French and Hungarian wines os eheap in bottles s they can be obtained in casks; the remission of the tax on pcpper (which scemed to atuuse the House & good deal) will be a real advantage to the poor in cheapen- in favor of Karl Grosvenor's amendwent, wud ing & wholesome condiment as well as preventing its adul- n it, thus showing the great preponderance of | teration; and the reduction of the stage carriage mileago 126,614 of the existing electoral body in of at once | duty thourh contessedly o partial measure will cheapen 'Itffl!!nx its busis. Now about property, on the T travel. But of course the great feature of the Budget is principlo that money and intelligence go_ together: sition to begin paying off the Nutional Debt. If I's speceh suggested it that gentleman’s client, Posterity, ought to be very much obliged to him, The Jamaica inquiry terminating, two of the Commis- sioners have returned to England, and we may shortly ex- weet that the result of their labors will be laid before Par- inment in the shape of a ponderous blue book which few persons will care to read. It is now pretty clearly ascer- taine | that the total number of *rebels” snot or hung during the continuance of martial law was about 438; that L ons were flogged: and that no less than 1,000 01 the peasantry, atiording shelter to 4,000 souls, were burned down, 1 can add notaing to the continental rumors of war which yoa will aot find in the papers. The money mar- ket is in n chronic state of panic in L‘onw\l,lflnc Other- wise, we are not much interested in the subject; still less excited, .InhuI Bull ouly wants “to keep out of the that's all. The e returns for the last week show aslight diminution in the number of animals attacked over that But Prof. Gamgee is very incredulous, both zures and the extinction ot'the Rinderpest, Last woek was a Summer one; this, Winter, with dis- t andor, lightning, snow, hail and rain. of them. «ay i8 rainy, with prospects We talk very litile of S e T. B G, Pttt Lh das FROM PARIK o —-— — M er Rouher’s Speech in the Corps Legislatit—Thicrs's Address—Pase e Conscription Bill—The Military From Our Ow Correspondent, PARS, May 4, 1865, Prussia is armed, Austria is armed, Italy is armed. Each says the other armed first, Who lies? Who tells the truth? Each iusists that its arming is purely defensive, and argues this to tho other, not+so much with the ides of convincing the other as of persuading European opinion of the truth of the statement. Which one will fire first? Will any one dare to take that risk? May not an acei- dentally discharged voluuteer's gun start these heaped up combustibles into general blaze of war? Theso question® have been asked through the week, with what growing anxiety you can measure by the dowuward, sliding, tum- bling scalo of quotations at the Bourse. In that time the French three per eents have fallen 2] per ceat; the Italian five per cents have fallen nearly 12 per cent. Such diplo- matic notes and other officisl writing as came to light in full, or as were adumbrated, amid a driving storm of printed telegrams and talked romors. ouly darkened | Auuwiodge Bnd Wade COLIUBIUM MUY LukiVukued. du- ) Iy needed s taat of reform did to its partieulur | pro- | PRICE FOUR CENTS. spired articles published in the Constitutionnel with (o ostensible purpose of calming excited apprehiensio. missed their purpose, partly because tho very fact of their publication was a recognition of cause for np(rrchenn i, partly because thoy wofully lacked intnusic defiuitenss partly because Goverpment is not at all bound to Lold by the opinions which its inspired tools are bidden to uiter; it can, as it often has doue, repudiate these tools and their utterances at any moment, The Moniteur, tho sole oli- cial newspaper, observed diligent silence. “There could be no stronger condemnation of the personal system of government than is to be found in the state ot the public mind ’“ilh' past fow weeks, The general feel- ing was that the answer to the question whether there will be a war or not was with the man who holds an army of 500,000 soldiers at his beek. He is the arbiter of warsnd ace in Europe. His delay in pronouncing his dec s nlmdy cost millions on millions to his subjects. ‘Aha mass of Frenchmen said: *“If Napoleon says to Prussia or Italy, in definite, positive terms, ‘Twon't baveit,' neither Prussia nor ‘luly would dare do it. The knot m worthy of @ god; let him interfere with a threat to eul, aud it will unravel of itself.” That this isattributing to the Emperor more power than ho has, or at Teast worw than be could prudently exercise, is plain enough to - flecting outsiders. But ho bas all along encouraged Lim subjects in sueh a persuasion— neouraged them not (o reflect—by his assumption of demi-godishness, and in one sensa they are logical in making him responsible for the continuanice of the imminently alarming ** situation.” “The proceedings in the Corps Legislatif yesterday are o1 manifold importance, especially in vidw of the actual Enropean crisis generally, in_view of the political bistory aud nature of the Napoleonic regimé, It was the doy fixed—before the chances of war had become menaging— for the presentation of the bill proposing 160,000 as thn number of copseripts this year fot the army. Amendmenty reducing this constant Napoleonignumber, and otherw.se qualifying in a pacitic aud Liberal, Ppolitico-economical and humane sense, the provisions of the bill had been au- nounced by members of the Left and of the Third party. Tt was the purpose of these members to force Governient, if possible, to explain itself on the Austro-Prussian ques- tion and on the Mexican busincss. But since the last iew days, when the Austro-Prussian has become the Austio- Prusso-Ttalian question, three-foldedly tangled and deli- cate, it has been understood that Government would de- eline to go into o general discussion. But it must let ity spokesinun say something, which something must indi- cate something of its pohicy, at least of what it wants the World to believe is its policy; and so the words of Minis- ter Rouber were hearkened to with intensity of interest. You will be likely to regard bis brief speech worth repro- duetion in full in TBE Trisoxe. I give, then, only ity main points: ** Under the eircumstances of the moment, Government deprecates a gencral discussion, but recog- nizes its duty to make known the policy it has hitherw pursued, its present attitude toward the German Powers, and especially ite situation in respectto Italy. In the m. ter of Sehleswig-lolstein, this policy has been invariably pacific; as, indeed, how couid it be in this or other quss tions, not directly touching the hovor or intercsts '] France, other than S-wific 7 Its constant fostering of ii- dustry and trade commerce at home, its actusl earnest promotion of the ¢t international industrial exhibition, ofter themselves ir-patent proof. Traditional sym) and the recent war, give us a special intercat in Ita) But France does not assume tho guardianship of her 1i- terests, nor the responsibility of her acts. Liko any other nation, she judges and for herself, But we declaro that if 'she thinks best to attack Austria, which we should utterly disapprove, she will do so purcly at her own risk. The position of Governwent may be defined in three words: a pacifie policy, loyal ncutrality, reservation ot entire freadom of action.” The applanse was long wid 1oud that followed this speech. Glais Bizoin, unsatistied Oliver T'wist, his exy for wore in these words—*and the Mexican question '—died without echo. HBethmont, ove of the Left, when the applause bad quieted, yielded bis right to the floor to Thiers, who had come to the House from an invalid's arm-chair. In a speech of abrillianey wu- usual even for him, he held the attention of his suditiors for two short hours, broken only by loud applause and words of approval, 'Tlis review of the Schleswig-Holstein business is the best aud most intelligible history of it that we have; his seathing eritique of Prussia’s shameful in it is & very masterpicce in its kind, to make Bis- mark the brazen, and his stolid Royal Master blush, were pot that faculty denicd them. Then he drew in great ‘mastesly outlines and beld up to view a prophetic histori- cal sketch, powerful in strength of light and shade, picture that New Europe would prescnt when Prusais's frasping and Italy's unerateful ambition have attained their ends—the end that upscrupulous ambition is aiming at—the recoastitation of the German Empire, its capital transferred from Viennia to Berlin, and its transalpine ally being United Italy instead of Spaiu. Observe now, that M. Thiers was immensely applavded from all sides of the house while attacking Prussia, and ! fron all but the Left side, cven when attacking ltaly. So was the emotion that the regular business of the session was suspended for more than half an hour after be sat down, Observe that Otlivier and Jules Favre, speak- | ingfor the Left and the Third party, expressed full approvs of his opinions—excepting, in part, thuse re arding Jtaly; that _they formally adjonrned their proposed discussion to | another occasion, and that the House then, by & vote that was unanimous, less 16 voices, passed the bill ordering & couseription of 100,000 ‘The moral of yeste:day’s proceedingsin the Corps Legis- latif is this: Government's declaration is approved, wiin insistance. [Which means that Frauce—for here, at least, the Deputies were strictly representatives of their constitu- ents—particnlarly doos not want war; and don’t, on the whole, consider that even some inerease of territory Rhie- ould pay for 118 cost, or balance disadvantages of a groat! creased Prussian power on its advanced frontiers. | “I'he nation says to its ruler, don't fight, nor let there be & fight, if you can belp it—and we believe you can, [L. B. is not constitutionally bound to obey the voice of his people, but he has sense enough to tuke iuto consideration | such an expression of it, and to use it also as a base for his lomatic action towards other powers.] But furthermore, s the nation, to help you keep the peaco if you ean, | say to'enable you, if you_cannot, to- strike in at the proper time and secure the desirable slice of territory ** all for an idea,” we patriotically grant the 100,000 conseri for army and navy. [Aud that is another warning to Master Bismark, as other portions of yesterdiy's session of the Corps Legislatif are o warning to Italy. This, for in- stance, which I forgot to mention in its' place: Just be- fore the Conseription bill was put to vote, Minister Rou- her informed the House that since its opening Govern- ment had transwitted to him a telegram received from the Italian Goverument, solemuly assuring France and the world that Italy would not strike the first blow, i noupcement was n[:r anded to the echo by the House. ‘The actual eritical state of affairs presents in itself a stroug argument in favor of accepting the proposition which Nupolcon emitted several years ago of & European Congress. It is & confirmation ‘of that prophetic argu- ve of the paper in which he pi it, of which is, *“The course of European history, dammed only by rotten old treaties and new temporary lillm‘;: in of diplomatic sand-bags, drifts inevitably to war uge of bloodshe: There is rumor that Russia aud Englund have shown readiness to join with France in exercising diplomatic compression on tie three pugnacious powers; another rumor that they have intimated readiness to reconsider their sometime rejection of the Napoleouie idea of a Congress. The classic school of states men (so-called) are likely to hold with Thiers that the balance of power in _ Europe ‘(lo-tnlhd 18 saveworthy at acy cost. Prus with excellent scaports on the Baltic; with but one on the Adriatic; Italy, completed by Venetia, predestined Mistress of the Mediterraneun, the first Napol French " would seriously combobulate (com- bobulate i8 not a dictionary word; 1'wish it were, or that I could recall any other as fit to the case) the balance. How, for example. shall Russia bear this Baltic growth of Prussia more indifferently than Frauce bears its growth of Eowor in Germany ! Aud if France shall surely demand, )y virtue of its pacific, loyally neutral policy of expeeta- tion, with 500,000 troops to keep it, expects compensating territorial guarantees Rhineward, will Russia not insist on a cut of Turkey, ltn-nmheninf its old purpose and its power to cut and come again? And so dand comes into the quarrel, and the old Eastern question sore, barely skinned over since the Crimean war, breaks out again, Aud so, from consideration of the lmymhmty of & war between Prussia and Austria, or Ituly and Austria, or any one or two of the three, when once broke out, being cireumseribed within their frontiers; of tho terrible proba- bilities of & general war in Europe; of the certainty of grave financial derangement and economical losses even to nations that should take no aetive part in it; of the grains of common sense that exist oven in the minds of able statesmen; of Napoleon's still unliquidated Mexican business—from consideratior: of these, among other things, your correspondent still lingeringly clings to_bis old opit fon that there will be no war this yosr in Europe, o';m you in the American distance are really in better eondi tion to .j’ud.m than one is here,—~where for the rest, I should add, that public opinion is quite contrary to mine. Meantime, as the fall in the public funds, the decline of all other values quoted at the Bourse indi- cates, this state of solicitous suspense has already brought on some of the gravest evils of war, sadl nmlndi-, one of that jest of Young Tom, in Jacob Fuithful, that * sus pense be as bad as hanging.’ ‘Which gives me rope enough to change the subject, and slip in hero 8 far wittier and wiser grawo mot of Vietor Hugo. An artist of Paris having lately finished an eteb- ing after Gericault’s picture of the head of & su - legally-murdered man), sent a progf to the author of Les ravaillers de la Mer, with a request that he would give an appropriate line to be engraved beneathit. Hugo re- lied: ** Since you ask a line from me, inseribe beneath your besutiful engraving these closing words of my Claude Gueur, * This head of 8 man of the lnn‘,nh{\l‘l need to cut ul."’ educate it, moralize it—you will not From by human apeing of *‘divine justice” to deaths by lightniing one passes with a sense of relief. A trustworthy statistical about these last was latel, read before the ‘M“flli;l::; Sciences, from which I ox'- tract a8 follows: There wero 84 deaths by lightning i France in 1864, of which 64 were masculiue victims and only 26 of the better sex. Striking and curious. In the number was 103, The are yearly deatis for the last past 30 years bave been 81. Tho nuinber of persons more or less hurt by lightning strokes is represeated 88 fougmum(g l.lfi:‘t lelle“;“'l‘ appedrs Mt numbers, and i 3 spvo'ufifllw for the whole population mwl‘nnc-- th Bwoden,