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Death has obtruded into the midst of the arrangements for the cele- bration of the marriage of the Princess Royal, though the ceremony proceeds uninterrupted. Yesterday-afternoon, the Queen, the Princess Royal, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, paid a long visit of inspection to St. James's Palace ; and her Majesty dictated what were supposed to be the final arrangements for the placing of those who will conspicuously assist at the marriage-ceromony. Among the places set apart were those for the Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Prince William of Baden. The Royal party had not long returned to Buckingham Palace when the telegraph announced the death of the Grand Duke Louis of Baden. In consequence of this, the Grand Duke and Duchess and Prince William are compelled to pass from the house of festivity to the house of mourning, and the places they leave vacant at the wedding will have to be filled up by others.

Another death also occurred yesterday. The unfortunate Marchioness of Westmeath, who lived in St. James's Palace, died in the course of the afternoon. The undertaker is thus busy on one side of the entrance- gate, and the artists are hanging up evergreens on the other.

The Queen, the Princess Royal, and the Prince and Princess of Prussia, visited the National Gallery yesterday. The Prince Consort and several gentlemen, among them the Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg, went to Windsor to shoot. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Bra- bant visited the Zoological Gardens.

The Lord Chamberlain gives notice, that "the doors of the Palace and Chapel Royal at St. James's will be opened to those having invita- tions or tickets of admission at ten o'clock a. m. on Monday the 25th in- stant, and will be closed at half-past eleven o'clock."

As we approach the marriage-day, the signs of an intention to keep it as a holiday become more general, both in the metropolis and the country.

At a meeting of the Church Missionary Society in Dublin, held on Monday last, the Archbishop of Dublin attended and spoke on the rela- tion of Christianity to the Indian mutiny. He said that the propagation of the gospel in India, instead of conducing to the revolt, had been one of the greatest cheeks to it. The people of India did not fear the mis- sionaries, but they feared an attempt on the part of the Government to convert them by force. Government has not prevented the establish- ment of missions.

"I take this occasion to state distinctly, that I earnestly deprecate all allusions to Government. I may add, that as I shall, of course, deprecate the opposition of Government to our efforts, so I shall, if possible, still more deprecate any assistance of Government, as government, to it, as it will excite the greatest degree of suspicion and alarm, and raise the greatest. prejudice against Christianity. I should say, that the maxim of this Society as a missionary society, with reference to Government, ought to be the same as the answer given by the French merchant to the Minister who asked how Government could aid and forward the oommerce of France. His

answer was, Laissez nous faire'—let us alone "I do think that the calamities in India are in some degree to be con- sidered as judgments, not supernatural, but natural, upon our culpable neglect in not having overspread the whole peninsula of India, which it was free to us to do, with missionary stations and schools for those of the Natives that chose to frequent them. And I do hope that we shall learn wisdom by what has passed."

Mr. Cobden has written a letter to Mr. Willem', the chairman of his election committee at Huddersfield, to meet some of the objections which timid people have to the adoption of that good old Saxon franchise which gave every householder the rights and responsibilities of self-government.

"It is not easy to persuade ourselves that if the whole of the ratepayers are admitted to the franchise we shall not be subjected to the tyranny of the million; but if we analyze our fears, they will be found, I think, unmanly and groundless. What are we afraid of? Some sort of class legislation. But I defy you to show the possibility of legislating for the benefit of the masses to the injury of the middle classes. If we have seen a comparative calm during the late commercial panic, it is, I believe, mainly to be attri- buted to the increased intelligence of the working people, who cannot as a body be now persuaded that their interests can be separated from those of their employers. We have made great progress in the right direction within my short experience. If we take a review of the conduct of the masses of the people on occasions of political strife, we shall find that they have generally been right before their betters ; and, although they have had no votes, their hands and voices have been raised in favour of every great principle of morality and justice. I have had great experience in appealing to all classes, and I say most sincerely, that I would prefer an audience of which the working class formed a considerable part, in all cases where I was the advocate of the rights of humanity. There is much wis- dom and truth in the saying of Montesquieu—' Men, although reprobates in detail, are always moralists in the gross.' My own opinion is that if the working classes had votes they would be quite as conservative in their tendencies, after a little experience, as any other section of the commu- nity."

Early in the week the Moniteur contained the following paragraph- " The Belgian journal Le Dreepeou of the 17th January boldly approves the attempted assassination of the Emperor : we await the decision of the Belgian Government."

Yesterday the Monileur returned to the subject, and stated the decision of the Belgian Government- " On the day before yesterday the Belgian Government presented a police bill concerning foreigners to the Chamber of Representatives. Yesterday it laid another bill on the President's desk for the modification of the penal code : the Government proposes to extract from this bill the articles relating to crimes and offences against international law, so as to form a special law therefrom. This special law is to be voted as urgent.' The Belgian Go- vernment intends prosecutiag the newspapers Le Propeau and Le Oro- eodik."

Thaindietment against the persons arrested in Paris on the night of the.14th January will, it is said, comprise only four of the prisoners now in custody on the charge of attempting the assassination of the Emperor : the evidence against the others is not complete. These four have been already specified—Pierri, Orsini, Da Silva or Rudio, and Gouraez. Orsini and Pierri are not very communicative in their answers to the questions put to thorn; Rudio is said to have fully avowed his crime, but it is not known whether he has implicated any third parties. Rudio threw two of the grenades ; Orsini had two also to throw, but, being severely wounded by the first, and seeing that all the chances were against him, he slunk away, deposited his other grenade and a revolver in. the Rue Rossini, and retired home.

The Tiniesthis morning opens with a powerful article, telling, for those who know no better—foreign dependents on paternal police, and Messrs. White of London and Newton Scott of Paris—why there is ',no need fix the British Lion to be roaring louder than he has about the 8i313118.9I-

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" We are ready to match our indignation against that of any honest and rea- sonable man. We are Englishmen ; that is enough, and ought to be enough. All Englishmen hate assassination. . . . . Excepting, possibly in the ease of some dietracted.woman avenging some hideous outrage,we have no patience with_ the orime. We give the assassin no law, except, if he can, to prove that he is not an assassin. Bat when this is the national and universal feeling among us, there is no occasion for everybody to storm and fret, and tear the passion to rags,' as-if it were something- new to be angry at the man who stabs another in the back, or flings a bomb-shell among an innocent multitude. In our position, too, there is a strong practical limit to excesses of the most virtuous indignation : we have to estimate what can be done and what can- not be done So-long as M. Orsini was in England, giving lectures and conversing with men. who hold amassing in abhorrence, he seemed out of harm's way. It will hardly be said that we ought to have laid hold of him and given him up to Austria, or to France,—with whom, by the by, we have not even an extradition treaty at this moment. If anybody was responsible for M. Orsini, it was Prance herself. She professes to have a system of personal surveillance ; we do not. It was her concern that this actual revo- lutionist and possible regicide should not enter her soil; and she possesses a most complicated machinery which pretends to guard her frontier from such invasion. How, then, did M. Orsini get into France ;

"When the son of the Due de Berry was in this metropolis holding a species of court, receiving homage, and distributing expectations, we did not ask for his expulsion. We thought it enough to point out the farcical nature of the exhibition. Some time before, this metropolis was honoured with the presence of another refugee, who had actually invaded the French territory with bloodshed, and who had been allowed to seek the shelter of our shores. Here he never abated one iota of his pretensions, but both in conversation and in writing proved his qualifications for the government of France. From these shores he conducted a second armed expedition to France, whieh accidentally failed ; and on his escaping from a French prison he returned to his old asylum, collected his friends, recruited his means, and, biding his time, entered a third time the country of which he is now the absolute sovereign. We never demanded his expulsion."

A telegraphic despatch from Trieste reports advices from Constantinople to the 15th January. "The Porte is to concentrate an army on tho Danube, in consequence of the agitation in the Christian provinces oc- casioned by the promulgation of the Russian ukase for the emancipation of the serfs. Ferukh Khan, it is said, will await, at Constantinople, the definitive arrangement of the frontiers between Turkey and Persia."

The Gazette states that Mr. Charles Hanmer Dickson has been ap- pointed British Consul at the ports of Soukhoum Kale and Redout Kale ; and Mr. Robert Cumborbatch British Consul at Berdiansk on the Sea of Azoff. • The following papers are to be read at the meeting of the Royal Geo- graphical Society in 'Burlington House on Monday-

" 1. Reports on the Expedition of the Niger, by Dr. Bailie, R.N., F.R.G.S., and Mr. May R.N., F.R.G.S. Communicated by the Earl of Clarendon, E.G., F.R.G. S., through Captain J. Washington, R.N., F.R.G.S. 2. Further particulars of the progress of the British North American Explor- ing Expedition as far West as longitude 109', on the Lower Saskatchewan, by Captain Palliser, F.R.G.S. Communicated by the Right Honourable H. Labouchere, M.P., F.R.G.S., Colonial Office. 3. Journey from Little Namaqualand, Eastward along the Orange River, the Northern frontier of the Colony, and with Map, by Robert Moffat, Esq., F.R.G.S. Com- municated by Governor Sir George Grey, F.R.G.S., through the Colonial Office."

A special Court'of Common Council, held yesterday, resolved to appro- priate 50,000/., to be raised by a county-rate, for the purpose of building a lunatic asylum for 200 patients.

As Lady Mary Hood was driving through Windsor on Thursday, to her house, Cumberland Lodge, she let fall one of the reins ; it fell upon the heels of the horses, alarmed them, and excited them to kick so violently that their blows knocked the carriage to pieces. Lady Hood was thrown upon the pavement, much but not dangerously hurt. She was immediately con- veyed home.