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Tea voluminous "Correspondence respecting " the Insurrection in Poland," just published, shows how largely the question has occupied the attention of the European Cabinets, how wide and serious its bearings have become, while the latest telegraphic news sufficiently indicates how little prospect there yet appears of any satisfactory solution being arrived at. The early part of the correspondence, containing the communica tions received from the agents and representatives of the British Government in Russia and Poland at the time of the outbreak, is of peculiar value and importance. These communications detail the true causes of the revolt, and supply, in the shape of the documents issued on either side—the apologists of the Russian Government far its conduct published in the official Gazette, and the proclamations of the Polish patriots— ample materials, had any been wanting, for • decisive judgment on this head. The official state ments and documents constitute the completest justification of the revolution, and fix the responsi bility of it entirely on the Russian Government. The British Consul-General at Warsaw, Colonel STANTON, was, it is true, at first so far misled as partially to accept the favourite Russian " view" that the outbreak was merely a local and very limited revolutionary movement, inspired and organized from without. This utterly fallacious theory has been sufficiently refuted by events ; but it is to the credit of Lord Narrna's sagacity that he was not imposed upon by it for a moment. Writing from St. Petersburg in January, a few days after the first outbreak, while recognising the existence of chronic disaffection, he attributes the sudden and desperate uprising of the Poles to the cruel and barbarous system of conscription which the Russian Government, in open defiance of its own promises and edicts, had 'tempted to enforce. After indicating the terrible effects which this atrocious measure, if carried out, would have pro duced, he states in plain terms the purpose for which it was avowedly adopted. "In fact; it was a de " sign to makes clean sweep of the revolutionary " youth of Poland, to shut up the moat energetic and " dangerous spirits in the restraints of the Russian " army. It was simply a plan to kidnap the oppo • " sition, and carry it off to Siberia or the Caucasus." This was written by our Ambassador at St. Pe tersburg towards the end of January, but in • later despatch, dated Feb. 7, he repeats the same statement in a more emphatic form :—" The " Russian Government avow that their authority " cannot be maintained by strict legality. Le "' gality,' they say, ' is our death ;' and they "confess that the recruitment was to be employed " as the means of dispersing, gagging, and shutting "up their political adversaries." In • subsequent interview with Prince Gosvcruxorr, the Russian Minister, it is true, attempted to excuse the arbi trary and cruel policy of his Government, as well as to shift the responsibility of its origination, if not its adoption, from the Russian Cabinet to the Military Governor of Warsaw. But the ettemPtl4 eXaulpatiOn amounts in reality to a direct confession on the part of the Russian Minister of the heavy crime against justice and humanity charged against his Government. Lord Name, in order to be perfectly frank with the Minister, had stated that " he could not but regret and "condemn the conscription in the interest of the " Russian Government itself." The Prince "Ye "plied with promptitude, regret it too f and " then his Excellency went on to explain and " extenuate the course pursued, which he said " had no other view than to clear off a number of " ill-disposed persons, and open • fairer path to " the peaceful realization of the administrative " reforms projected by the Emperor. His Excellency " added that the measure of the military recruit " went had originated with Marquis WIZLOPOLSKI." It must be remembered that these ill-disposed persona who were thus summarily to be "cleared " off' were, in fact, the patriotic party in Poland. But whether few or many, nothing could avail to palliate in the smallest degree this savage, ruthless, and vindictive attack on the liberties and lives of citizens charged with no offence, and suspected of none beyond that of loving their country. In his brief reply to Lord I' , 7•PIER, Lord Rosan a. expresses the moral judg ment of the civilized world on this barbarous and malignant act of mingled tyranny and provocation in language worthy of the Minister of a free people : —" No argument Olin make it right to turn conacrip " Lion into proscription, and to condemn men to " military service because they are suspected of " revolutionary designs. The security of law " canoe is thus at one blow destroyed." It is satisfactory to find from the correspondence that the tone of the English Government towards Russia has throughout been equally firm and digni fied. In a despatch, dated the 2nd of March, the English FOREIGN SZCZZTART, after pointedly ad verting, not only to the immediate cause of the insurrection, but to the deeply-rooted and perma nent grounds of discontent prevailing throughout a large proportion of the Polish population, "the " landed proprietors and the middle classes in the "towns," suggests to the Russian Government the BAROMETER.—NEGRETTI and P M LIJEBRA.s trustworthy and reliable Instrument, the alas a waleh.—Particuters by post, I, Hattowitardeu ; 69, • YU, Regentntreet and Crystal Palace, Sydenhain. EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. A m ni a weerb Mlles 111110VID FROM BONA:ITU= to 7s. BISOOKSTRZIT, lisaoreroquars. to IMO. The Ulu Trousers foryrosated Alm) In all the New Parise's. HITT= THAN EVIL" TROUSERS. — Special attention is called to the NgW Spit `to 000016, and ragman who do sot mad fair price for a good pair of trousers can depsad on raaterW and patteMlthat cannot ae mogul. at HA WILTON and KIMPTONS, TAILORS, 105. Strand topp•alta Rader Hall). IN FUN THIS WEEK, Price One Penny, Lord Adolphus Pratte/Bak Chaska William 'Coos Tempest, P. Our Prise Essays. The Bridal Present at !loath Heosington. The Patrician Publican. Comic Alusanack and Diary, &e. Now ready, handsomely bound la Raid. merits d ab. 0 1, pric« ee dd.: pad THE THIRD HALF-YEARLY VOLD/nor ROL with numerous Engravings by talented artiste. lad areleles h 7 dilaingilisbrd writare !fretThe and Second Volumes. uniform with the third. on 110. irleetenreet. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1663-. wisdom and expediency of putting an end to this state of things by at once proclaiming an uncondi tional amnesty, and restoring without delay " the " political and civil privileges granted to the king " dom of Poland by the Emperor ALM:CINDER L, " in execution of the stipulations of the Treaty of " 1815." This recommendation is repeated in a more formal and authoritative manner in the de spatch of April 10 ; the note forwarded by the English FOREIGN Smairrans to St. Petersburg, in conjunction with notes from the Governments of France and Austria, similar in purpose though not identical in terms. In this despatch the English Government, as a party to the Treaty 'of Vienna, claims the right of interposing " with regard to any matter which may appear to " them to constitute a departure from the provi " Mons and stipulations of that Treaty." After adverting to the total abolition thirty years ago of the representative and national institutions first established in Poland in compliance with the stipulations of that Treaty, the English FOREIGN Si- CRETARY emphasises the fact that during the whole of that period Russia has failed, as she still fails, to carry out her Treaty engagements. The importance of this communication cornea out more fully in a conversation between Lord Rua am and Baron Box:meow of the same date as the despatch. To Baron BRUNITOVeII significant in quiry whether the communication about to be made to St. Petersburg was of a pacific nature, the English Sacarraav at once replied that it was, adding, however, that as he did not wish to m'u lead, there was something more he must say : " The state of things might change. The pre " sent overture of her bLialwrx's Government " might be rejected, as the representation of the " 2nd of March had been rejected by the Imperial " Government. The insurrections in Poland might " continue, and might assume larger proportions ; " the atrocities on both sides might be aggravated " and extended to a wider range of country. If " in such a state of affairs the Emperor of Rossi♦ " were to take no steps of a conciliatory nature, " dangers and complications might arise not at " present in contemplation." Without wishing to exaggerate the importance of this statement, we may add that the great practical moral to be drawn from this correspondence respecting the Polish insurrection, and still more of the terrible fighting going on at this moment in that unhappy country, is that whatever diplomacy can do for the Poles ought to be speedily ascertained, and done quickly. Emu. Rosan a. made an announcement in the House of Lords, last night, respecting the Post office letter•bag taken with the Peterhoff, which will be read with general satisfaction. Ao oording to a despatch from Lord LYONS, re ceived at the Foreign-office yesterday, Mr. Buccal, has informed that Minister that the mail-bag will be immediately forwarded to its destina tion, and that the same course will be followed in future cases until the two Governments have arrived at some common understanding with re ference to the character to be ascribed to mails sent by private ships. Thus one element of con tention which was becoming important has been removed in the way most honourable to both Governments. Other questions re main unsettled, and more must be expected to arise from time to time. Sometimes one Govern ment will have complaints to make, sometimes the other; and it is inevitable that, if only from the distance which separates the two countries, there will be intervals of suspense, during which those whose business is to sow distrust between the two peoples will have abundant scope for their labours. In view of such contingencies we repeat what we said at the time of the Trent dispute, that it is not by weak concessions on either side that peace is to be preserved, 'nor is it the firm asser tion of national rights or the rejection of un founded claims that will lead to war. The British Government has hitherto maintained the rights of its subjects with the utmost steadfastness; but it has withstood those who upon every opportunity urged it to assume beforehand that the American Government was bent on doing us wrong, and would be deaf to all reciama lice& And hitherto it has been justified by the result. It is very satisfactory that the question of the mail-bags has been removed out of the pale of controversy before the reports of last week's de bates in Parliament reached America. It was doubtless not in the hope of facilitating the friendly settlement of future disputes that Mr. Boreocx said last week that the Washington Government " truckled to us " when it did what was right in the affair of the Trent. Demagogues on both aides of the Atlantic have calculated that governments resting on popular support cannot afford even to seem to truckle ; and it will be owing to their art ful operation on the public susoeptibility if war is kindled in spite of all the efforts of both Govern ments. Just now we are reading the foolish threats which the sentiments expressed during the Alabama debate in the House of Commons have provoked some American' who should know better to utter. In a day or two the Americans will learn in turn the incendiary language in which some of our own stump orators have ri valled their bullies, and disgraced our Parliament. These things must be, but it is always in the power of the sensible people of the two countries to ren der them lasamkaa. GOVERNESSES BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. (THIS DAY.) The annual meeting of this useful institution was Lad this day et the Henoverequem Rooms : the Pail of SEIBZWBDURT is the chair. The 8/CRETART read the report, which stated that the ope , rations of the society durieg the past year had been of a rum factory deecriptiou. There had been an increase in the annual enhaeriptions, but a decrease he the donations. On the 31st December ' 1062, there were 108 annuitante on the fund, 22 inmates of the asylum, and provident annuitants, 455, making the whole number permanently brnedtted, 585. The number of applications for relief has now reached the large number of 2,14 L The ap pito:Mims in 1062 were 916, sad the (ruts, 546. The aid rendered in various ways dune? 1862 was 1,4144 10a, making the whole sum expanded in this branch 19,6331. 3a. 9d. For the elective annuities 101adiee were sleeted during the past year. The provident fund maims@ its study work of usefulness, there being re ceived for this fond during 1862 11,7581. 17e. 6d. The Home, under the management of the ladies' committee, has proved of great utility during the pert year ; 226 'overcome have resided there, besides 114 who found engagements while waiting a vacancy. The registration matinees its steady coarse, and out of the 1,761 registered ia 1862, 916 have found situations. The asylum for the aged, only five of the 22 inmates being under 60 years of age, and three being over AO, iv in • healthy state. The lemma during the year have been from Mra. Cutto, 1,0001., Jim. Wakes, 1004 ; and Dr. Roberts, 1001. The total receipts for the year ending December 31, 18 62, were 11,8941. la. ; and the expenditure. 11,448/. 14e. 10d., leaving • balsam of 9441. 7s. The receipts of the provident fund diving 1882 were 22,3111. Is. 4d.. and the payments on annuities, suedes invented, he., ansoeuted to 21,2991.85. 3d.. Lavin • balance of 911/. 19s. Id. The invested feeds of the inetitution now amount to 78,30 E. 14s. 3d. The anni versary forded in aid of the fund will take place on the 19th of May, ender the presideeey of the Earl of Flerrowbv, this bang the twentieth year of the moiety under its present ormaintios. - On the voodoo of the CzAninaw, seeonded by Mr. Mao a.ol/101t. W. P., the report Ina adopted. Votes of thaehs having been given to the officers of the society, The meetieu then proceeded to the election of five se militants of 201. from s list of 137 candidates. The sit highest unsuccessful candidates receive a gratuity of 101. gbe ereum WINDSOR Ca n& Aria 30. The Quail, the Prince end Princess Louis of Huse, Primes Victoria et Hew, Prince Alfred, Print"it Helena, Princess Louise, Primer Beatrice, and Primo, Leopold, attended by the Dowager Countess of Mount Bdroambe, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Major Cowell, left Windsor Castle for Osborne at half -put two this afternoon. Prince Alexander and Prinos Henry of Herne, attended by Baron de Rotunann and Captain Westerweller, left the Castle for London. Earl Russell and Viscoont Palmerston arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had audiences of the Queen. The Dowager Countem of Mount Edgcumbe has succeeded the Countess of Desert as lady in Waiting. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieuteoaot-Colonel Do Plat have succeeded Major-General the Hoe. A. N. Hood, sad Colonel the Hon. A. Harding.), as Equerries in Waiting. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphisstone, arrived from Greenwich-park, and left with the royal family. The Prime and Princess of Wales, attended by the Hoe. itm. Stoner and Captain Grey, went at 12 o'clock yesterday to the Royal Academy in Trefalgar•agmare, where they were received by Sir Charles L. Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, who conducted their Royal 11 ighoesses through the exhibition. Prince Alexander and Prince Henry of Hens dined with the Prime and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house. The Prince and Process of Wales, accompanied by the Princes Alexander and Henry of Hesse, honoured with their presence in the evening the performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden. The Hon. Mrs. Stonor and Captain Grey were in waiting on the Prins' ',and Princess of Wales, and Barns de Rotamann and Captain Westervraller ►ttended their Grand Dual Hightiemes at Hams. At the reoeption at Marlborough House on Wednesday of addresses of congratulation to the Prince of Wales upon his Royal Highness's marriage, an address from the Senstus Academic= and students of the Univenrity of Edinburgh was presented by the Right Hon. W. Gladstone, M.P., LLD., Rector of the University ; Sir David Brewster, K.H., D.C.L., Vice-Chancellor and Principal; and Lyon Mayfair, Req., C. 8., LLD., Professor. The Mayor of Birmingham and a deputation attended yesterday at Marlborough House, and presented a handsome silver table. of Birmingham manufacture, to the Princess of Wales, which her Royal Highness was pleased to accept. The Mayor of Bradford (Mr. Matthew William Thompson) and Mr. Alderman Wright presented to the Princess of Wales, from the inhabitants of Bradford, two pieces of the mohair manufacture of that town. Viscount Palmerston returned to town yeetarday from Windsor Castle. A deputation from the justiora of the Salford Hundred, to the county of La master, had yeeterdsy an interview with Sir George Grey, as to the expediency of carrying out capital punishment within the precincts of the gaoL The Paris Sport says :—" The visit to Paris and reataimblaaa of the Prises and Primus of Wales will be see of the marked events of the mimeos. The preparatioes sow making for the purpose of receiving War royal high nesses are worthy the illustrious guests and the hosts who are to receive them." His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the °minter Berndorff entertained at dinner last evening the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, his &milady the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Spanish Afinister and Madame Comyn, the Marchitmeas of Salisbury, Viscount Chelsea, the Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli, the Marquis and Marchioness de Cations, &c. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath will arrive in town os Monday nut, from Longleaf., for the season. _ . The Countess Cowper's ball will take place on Tuesday. the 12th, at the family mansion in St. Junes's equate. _ On Monday next hie Royal Highness the Count de Paris will hooont Lord and Lady Egerton with his coal paay at dinner ; and oa Monday, the 18th tart., Lady Eger ton will give a plied balL Lady Mary Hamilton has Mimed cards for • &nein( party en Friday, the 15th inst., at bit mildews in Cheehaa•Plaaa Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont entertained at dieser, last evening, en the Terrace, Pim&By, the Princess of fiervia, attended by Senator Christitch, the FAH and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess De Grey, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, Lord sad Lady Wodehouse, the Marquis of Sligo, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, Mr. Swinton, Mr. Oliphant, Lord Dunksllin, and Mr. Somerset Beaumont. _ . Lady Blantyre gave her first dancing party last suaing at the tangly residence is Gresireaorplaca Mr.. Tait, wife of the Bishop of London, held an semeibly hat waling at London Home, St. James's square. Amoemrt the company present were his Excel teeny the Death Minister, his Erneßenny the United States Minister and Mrs. Adams, his Excellency the Bavarian Malaita., his Excellency the Mieister of the Netherlands, to. _ _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge hoooared Lady Molesworth with his oompeny at dinner last arming, at hat resideaos in Eaton-place. The Austrian Ambateadier and the Counter Appooyi, the French Ambeasador, the Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clan ricarde, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, the Right Hoo. Lord Stanley, Lord Harris, the Right Hoe. Sir Robert Peel, ILP., Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Mr. Henry ()twills, and Dr. Quin were invited to inset his royal Winona On Wednesday, at the British Embaasy, Paris, Mr. Robert Percy Wrench, Secretary to her Majesty's Le gation at Brawls, was married to the only daughter of Ootowel Almada. de Kindiakoff. The bridesmaids were— Princes Alexandrine Dolgorouky, Counter". Olga Mammies- Porichkiee, and Edna. Nelidoff. The bridegroom's best man was Lord Hubert de Burgh-Canning. After the per formanoe at the ceremony at the British Embassy, the bride and bridegroom mended to the new Greek church, were the nuptual rites ware performed aceordiug to Rue idan customs. The ceremony of crowning the bride and bridegroom was witnessed with curiosity ; and the scramble the young couple bad to reach a rose-coloured strip of satin, which is to incurs a happy future, created much question. lag about the symbolical ceremonies of the Greek church. The Duke of Beaufort's visit to France has been scoompanied by a great deal of hospitality. He was present at the ball on Monday night given by their Majes- ties at the Tuileries. The lovers of the sports of the field were exceedingly anxious to show some attention to his grew, and a dinner at the Jockey OM was proposed. The duke, however, having given a rendezvous to the wolf hunters of Poitou, was compelled to leave Paris on Wed nesday. His grace examined with great interest the stable, of the Emperor at the Louvre, and expressed his admira tion of the style In which they are kept. The second day's sale of the drawings of the Bickeell Collection realised 8,315 L 10e. At an influential mercantile meeting privately held yesterday, for the purpose of oonsidering a communica tion made at the instance of the Credit Mobilier of France and some of t►e leading bankers of Paris, it was agreed that the principle of a financial emaciation for the object of nadertakiog and developing financial and industrial opera tions in the United Kingdom es well as as the Continent is worthy of serious asesideration, and that a combination be formed icrearry this opinion into effect. A Paris correspondent writes :—" The adventur ous speculators who, upon the conclusion of the oommer• dal treaty between France and Raglead, established depots for the sale of the manufactures of the latter coun try, have been amply rewarded this season. Scottish goods have found a ready and advantageous sale, and the aristo cratic families have gladly availed themselves of the op poetusity of purchasing largely before their departure for their country seats. A house lately estebliebed in the Fau bourg St. Honore has sold off all its stock, and the senior member of this eriterprisitm firm has been obliged to start for Scotland to lay in a fresh stock of the textile articled for which that part of the United Kingdom is distinguished." Waimea's ROYAL RIW BOWL—The new edition of this useful manual of addresses of the fashionable world, compiled on the basis of inquiry from house to hosts% has just been published, consoled and extended to the present data CRYSTAL PALACE—The performance of Mendel who's Billie to AtAalit, the. Exhibition Overtures, by Meyerbeer and Auer, with the National Anthem, Ice., commenced today at 3 o'clock. The pawn was onooed at 12, sad the performatice will aoudads alma 6 o'clock. The weather is meet propitious. 1 . l. jr. D. W. W. W. 7.lx. Q.! i. a. it. I a. ab.d .17114 W. N.V.% ;f e l 1 m c 1 O.IR L-Ith 30.13 bt W. Ardronma .lO Mb V. 4I o 6 0.16 Pertrush .ll 48 &W. ,11,1 f - 1 Galway 3O.M 53 N. N. E. 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Sol. aodtoL,mode- LW.EsoYp, B.K to &W., fresh to rate to fresh, flue. light. One. As next above. &X Reat,AwD. As Dent above. 21. N. b. to ¢.9.E., mo- L "arr. E to 8 . and W.S.W. derate, One. light, One. LATEST INTELLIGENCIE. POLAND. If we may believe the Pram of Vienna, a semi official journal, the relations between Austria and the Western Powers are growing 000 L The de spatches forwarded to St. Petersburg by England and France declaring the amnesty insufficient were sent without the knowledge of Austria. "This step of the Western Powers," says the Prase, " was not learned at Vienna for four days, and then only in an indirect way. This proceeding can only be explained by the desire of those powers to prevent Austria from assuming a mediating position between them and Russia" The official journal of St. Petersburg publishes a lengthened manifesto, which oocupies a page of the Nord of to-day, setting forth for the information of Europe a summary of the measures which have been carried out in Poland since the accession of I the Emperor Alexander. These measures are given under 12 heads, viz. Amnesties, sots of clemency, and imperial pardon. 2. Religious worship. 3. Pensions, financial and benevolent measures. 4. Roads and communications, national industry. 5. Reorganisation of the political and administrative institutions. 6. Public instruction. 7. Reforms introduced into the relations between proprietors and tenants. & Extension of the common 11. w to the Jews of the kingdom. 9. Reorganisation of various other parts of the administration of the kingdom. 10. Judicial reforms. 11. Preparation of various other legislative and administrative projects. 12. Executive and administrative power. It is stated that between 1856 and 1861 a full and entire amnesty has been granted to 8,693 persons ; that the greatest deference has been paid to the Roman catholic church, which has enjoyed full self-government ; that the remnants of the old Polish army and of the former civil administration have received an increase of pensions ; that the ' roads, railways, and river navigation have been greatly improved and extended ; that elective pro ' vinoial councils to regulate all local affairs have been established, the voting being open to every Pole of 25 years of age who can read and write the I Polish language ; that schools, universities, and various educational establishments have been en couraged and fostered ; that tenants have been released from a state almost of serfdom ; that Jews have received all the privileges which other subjects enjoy ; that the penal code is being revised with a special view of giving solid guarantees of justice to the accused, without having recourse to excep tional tribunals and the application of mar tial law; that a principle of decentralisation is being carried out. Lastly, "It is his own brother that the Emperor has condescended to appoint his lieutenant in the kingdom. It is a Pole of eminent merit and of ardent and enlightened patriotism that his Majesty has placed at the head of the civil administration. The Council of State and the Administrative Council are almost exclu sively composed of Poles. All the higher civil functions—all the posts of provincial governors, have also been exclusively confided to Poles. Through out the kingdom there were not on the Ist of January, 1863, more than eight superior Russian functionaries." (aswrza's rmssamis.l THE POLISH INSURRECTION. THORN, Aram 30. The anniversary of the Emperor's birthday passed yesterday without particular observance. The Marquis Wielopolski was not among the company attending at the castle to offer their con gratulations. It is said that Baron Seebach, now at Warsaw, having perused the draft of a constitution to be granted to Poland, considers its publication un advisable as inadequate for the object intended. RUSSIA. CELEBRATION OF THE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY. ST. PETERSBURG, MAY I. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day announces that the birthday of the Emperor has been cele brated in all the chief cities of the empire, and that loyal manifestations have taken place through out the provinces. The same paper publishes the answer given by the Emperor in reply to an address pre sented to him by tho nobility, the municipality of St. Petersburg, the corporations, and the peasantry. His Majesty said : "The only object of my life is the welfare of our dear father land, and the gradual development of our civil institutions." An imperial ukase has also been published to-day directing that corporal punishments shall in future only be employed in exceptional cues. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, KAT 1. The Moniteur of to-day says : "Several journals announce that the representa tives of the sub-electoral committees will shortly assemble in order to elect a central committee. "The government reminds the public that the law fordids association of more than twenty per sons meeting without the consent of the public authorities, even should those associations be sub divided into sections comprising a less number, and, further, that the journals would expose them selves to legal penalties if they published the reso lutions or manifestoes of such associations." WEATHER EMPORT.-(THIS DAY.) M•r 1, a A.M. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MOM otn owl 00i PARIS, THURSDAY EVRID(O., The following practical letter, addressed to M. Havin of the SiMe by au old member of former parliaments, speaks volumes as to the present state of electoral liberty in France : Villechaise, pear Confolens (Climate), April 23. My dear old oolleegue,—You were misled when you an. flounced io your paper that 1 was a candidate in the cir cumscription of C,onfolens and Ruffec. I have never dreamt of coming forward ; not that I should not feel greatly honoured by the mandate of a deputy, but bec►use I am not food of useless efforta. If we were in possession of real electoral liberty I should not hesitate to stead, and my opinion is that liberal ideas would have a peat chance of • triumph in this dietriet. But I will not expose myself to the inevitable defeat which awaits everyone who thinks to oppose the administrative pressure which reigns supreme. Believe me, my dear friend and former colleague, that democracy has nothing to gain by provoking a straggle in any of the rural circumscriptions. The game is not fair. The best thing to do is to concen trate all your efforts upon large towns, where there is more independence, and where greater instruction and more dß cacious publicity render the electoral manceuvres of govern ment agents use certain of success. I sincerely trust that one such constituency will be found to return you to the legislative chamber. And, while not having the honour to follow you, I shall offer my best wishes for the triumph of those liberal principles of .the soundness of which I am the more convinced the older I grow, and the more I study. Publish this letter, which will be my answer to the many electors who seod me letters every day, and will, moreover, remote • certain sub-prefect whose sleep is said to have been very mach disturbed by rumours of my candidature—Very cordially yours, I:. i3ABAIJD L►BIBRBL M. Laribiere is of the same opinion as the Mar quis de Pierre and M. Proudhon ; he thinks all constitutional opposition to government, under the existing constitution, useless and ridiculous. The whole gist of M. Proudhon's new pamphlet, "Lea Democrats Assermontds et lea Refractaires," is that universal suffrage being utterly unable to exercise its sovereignty under present conditions honest citizens may best serve the state by declining an unfair combat, and abstaining from voting. He recommends the formation of "ab stention committees "—the moral effect of which be argues would be infinitely greater than that of the fifteen or twenty votes which, at the utmost, the opposition may hope to gain at the next elec tions. M. Proudhon boldly says—and this perhaps is the best thing in his impracticable pamphlet— that the oath of allegiance to the Emperor is incom patible with the sovereignty of universal suffrage, which is the corner-stone of the imperial constitu tion. He vindicates the perpetual and indefeasible right of universal suffrage to revise its own work, and combats the oath as a monstrous device at tempting to subject the creator to the creature. " We have received," says the Sidck, "from the Ministry of the Interior a communication from 'which it results that the electors are not prevented from obtaining copies of the electoral lista. Persons residing in the departments have already been able to take advantage of that facility afforded by the administration." The recent statement of the Patric that the elec tions were likely to be postponed to the end of the year is traced to a misunderstanding of something that fell from the Emperor a few days ago. It is now considered certain that they will take place in a month's time. The France goes so far as to say that May 31 is the day fixed, and that the decree will appear in tte Moniteur on May & At the Bourse the operations for the settlement favoured • rise ; and • report that the Bank of England had reduced its discount to 3 per cent. en couraged buyers. Bente rose 150. for cash, and 20c. for account, and Mobilier, 18fr. 75c. The Northern Railway rase 81r., and the other lines about 21r. 50c. The Salta Public of Lyons states that during the last two or three days the thermometer in that neighbourhood suddenly fell to freezing point, and in the Valley of the Charollais to three degrees below it. Some of the vineyards and fruit trees had suffered. In the plain of Dauphin 6, on the side of Moulin-A-Vent, the fields of rye have been for some days past in ear. The artificial grasses and the lucern are most flourishing, and will soon be ready for the scythe. The light grounds covered with corn have not yet suffered from the long con tinuance of dry weather, but • few days' rain would be of great benefit. Vegetation, which Issas° backward in March, has lately much improved. A violent fire broke out yesterday morning at 5 o'clock, at the CafiS du Giant, on the Boulevard du Temple, and in less than an hour the whole establishment was nothing but a heap of smoking ruins. An explosion of gas is said to have been the cause of the conflagration. A female belonging to the cafi was burned in her bed. THE ALLEGED ABBTRACTIOR PROM THE RECORD OFFICE. This morning a copy of a letter from the Master of the Rolls to the Home Secretary with reference to the alleged abstraction of certain state papers from the Record office was returned to pa:Bennet. It seems that in the practice of arranging the state papers before they come under Sir John Hominy's superintendence, and separating the enclosures of letters from the letters containing them, documents have been mislaid and appear to be missing which are, in fact, not miming, but only re-arranged in a different order, and that some clerk in the office, not finding the documents in question, bad inserted in the lists of the State Paper-office a number of notices that offset. "In fact," says the Master of the Rolla, " the entries of the words re lating to the correspondence missing were written upwards e thirty years ago by a gentleman who was then a clerk in the State Paper-office, since Secretary of the Reoord-offioe, but now deceased. When these lists were furnished to Mr. Turnbull to guide him in the o'ropilation of his Weeder, he retained these notices as he found them in his own justification. This is, in fact, the explanation of the charges made against this office by the Protestant Alliance. Had the same rules obtained in the State Paper-office as have been enforced by me since the state papers came under my charge, such mistakes as this could sever have arisen. I have forbidden the disarrangement of the documents, and the separation of the enclo sures from the letters containing them. It will be impossible at once to remedy the inconveniences which have arisen from a practice sanctioned many years ago, be fore state papers were so well understood or so much studied es they are at present ; but the printed calendars now in the course of preparation under my care will do much to wards replacing the mislaid documents in their proper order, and will be a sufficient guarantee to the public spinet any misarrengement or misappropriation of them hereafter; supposing cry such misappropriation has taken place, which Ido not believe. lam satisfied that. since the state pipers have been under my charge, no one of them has disappeared, nor do I see how it would have been possible that they ' should have been purloined under the precautions which I have adopted." A railway of novel construction has been in ope ration since Monday last in the Champs Elyse's, Paris. It has been imagined to convey to the Polak de Pladustrie the model of the new Opera-house, which is of plaster, weighs more than two tone, ands so fragile that it could not bear the jolting of a carriage. The model is placed on a truck mused with a cloth. The truck is Awed on rails, which are drawn from the tail to the heed according is the truck is advanced. The progress is vary slow, but sure, and the engineer who directs the operation feels confident that this object of art, one of the most curious to be ex posed to view at the approaching Exhibition of Fine Arts, will arrive safely at the Pules de Flodustrie. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (11118 DAT.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVOR (Before the Judge Ordinary.) edema v. OOWiSO AND ROLLO. Dr. Spicks was for the petitioner ; the re had pleaded • denial, and also an -"- - not appear. There wee a claim of Ou the 18th of September, 185 b, positor at Misers. Clow's?. married name was Keys. They went to green, and afterwards at 12, Nino William Wolk°. who had • situation chemist in Oxford-street, bed in the same house. In this way between the reepondeett ; and 1 home before Wolleu thy bad seeing each other. The ht petted nothing till be found which he had in • hook bad been forged order. This naturally eau. distress, and he ieetituted a rigorous COMM of which the nature of his wife's 00-respondent came out. The evideem sisted of a confession to Eliza Goalie. Wollen would be the father I she was pregnant, and which Umber, 1861. Wollen himself bougl and arranged with Goshen that Co' a present from her. The respondent that Wolko wee much annoyed that the Chet to kiss his child. She adds mined to emigrate if the thing was never face her husband again. These firmed by a very amorous oorrespoodeme discovered, and was produced in evidence Mrs. Taylor, the mother of the co-res , she had never bad the slightest 'aspic' proper between the respondent and I. when she found is his room a letter He had been the best child in the • time only 17, whereas the respouu..— older. It immediately struck witness that toe signing woman bad ruined her boy, and she fainted &say the spot. She remained iseensibk for more than two Lo t y, The witness (though with grist reluctance) idettit.tl . oorespondmit's letters. He would be of age on the 22nd , December mut, and he would Own be entitled to SU. Sir C. Cromwell, in summing up, said he WY afraid last witness bad not fully understood her sea's character which she took so amiable a view. His letters eertao showed that he was pretty well advanced fora youth d' and the beet that ever was born. (A laugh.) The jury found a verdict for the husband, with damages. Decree nisi, with costa. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before !dr. Commisaoser Faso.) ---........- NZ TR S lON DON AND PROVINCIAL DISCOUNT OCINTAID This was • sitting for the triple purpose to audit dm 6 signore aocouota, IC receive proofs of debts, and to deci, • dividend. The petition was presented against the corn in April, 1862, by Mr. Barnard, of Alfred-villas. AR. road, Alston," gentleman." The objects of the comp, were stated to be first to advance mosey by way of upon real end pommel property of iodividtuds, comma, mid corporations respectively; secondly. to advance ioce b 7 way of die:aunt or otherwise upon promissory notes sl bills of exchange. whether foreign cr inland, the wane( real and personal estates, annuities, promissory notes, of exchange, fic., the receiving of dimwits se baaken,i, The petitioner bad been manager of the company. sod offloss were at 48 sod 47, OorabilL The total liabilities, about 7,000 i., and there is 1,52 H. in band. upon the application of Kr. Iniwrance, who dated ta there were several claims which demanded investigate, am sdjonroment for a week was ordered. In BLOND/LAU. —ALLZOCD raTrssivs rums ET POZZIONIits. . This was an application for rekase from custody Ferdinand Blondeau, who bad been in partaerekip with brother. Chas. Bloodean, as millers, in France. The rupee traded at Tonnerre, and haviog been &diode:al bankrupt by the tribunal of oommerce there they a owing about 8,000. Mr. Sargood (instructed by Mr. Michael Abrahams) 11l = brother had present application. Both the bankrupt sad had fled from France to this country, and it asked that the present application should be dismissed • cede. The brotherhad managed to escape, aod it was be that they intended to depart this realm for Spain. bankrupt, however, was caught and arrested on a He had already made the experiment of two applicatioes release to Mr. Justice Byks at Judges' Chambas, who refused to grant them. The Oommisiooer declined to grant the bankrupt's quest, and ordered him to pay the coda. Bankrupt returned to prism our ; the isTriondw,,, E: t allegati m oo ugh, d lel:15, Jolinitrn. Tied the respoodeer of to reside in 14. Pintaillam N e w Lotion with • er heed with t °63 : • close intimacy swim Cowing bad to d ample opn o ,,,,, adis husband, Vow eee ,. that a own n taken oat by Magi 0 . tilled him a peat deal mow investigat es , s 'We'd Madan gab evidacee aphid h er mites, a female [rift], w r of the child o f oh wu bon is sought a robe for U N • Cowing wee to be told it Lent told this young that the petitiouer tan added that they had dsa 'as found out, for she eo These statements er e , tepoodenoe which Li o evidence. e co-respondent, and • suspicion of &orl on Lod her son till pt. d. Ku of his *Mural to be world, and VMS at indent was a doom v -inns that the artful. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) SOUTHWARK. rameTruc ASSAULT. Mary Began, a spiteful-looking female, was brought g in custody of an officer of the M division, chsrged wi committing • frightful assault on Mary Haig h by her with • heavy iron fire-shovel. nearly severing the from her head, and inflicting such serious injury that life is in danger. • The complainant, whose countenance was complete covered with adhesive plaster, said that she lodged in t same home sa the prisoner in Harrow-street Kintebei Borough. last night, as she was returning borne from b work, the prisoner met her and commenced shoeing le about her husband. She told her she knew nothing of husband, and entered her room. As soon as sue bad de so, the prisoner rushedat her and threatened to do for be she took up the tongs to protect herself when the prism seised up • heavy iron shovel and dealt several blows at Is one of which struck her across the nose. She immediate tell on the floor thinking that she was murdered. bat coontabie wee sent for, and she was conveyed to a surge The latter told her that the wound was very sense that erysipelas was expected, and she might lose her life. The prisoner odd that she had caught the comprise with her husband last night, and she told her of it. Me she attempted to strike her with the tongs, bat she te her off with the fire aboveL The constable who took the prisoner into custody al that the woman's nose was nearly cut off ; and being m* addicted to drinking, and an old woman, the done shaid that erysipelas would ensue, and that she wo.lt 1v her life. The magistrate said it was suet a serious can. th it : must remand the prisoner for a week ; end he shoal c oo mend the complainant to go and remain in the hoir..l. THAMES. SCICD3I. Margaret Leroy, an unfortunate woman, aged N... brought before Mr. Partridge on the double charge of rob* a sailor boy named Rwandan, of the barque Orient, of a LI &mown, aid attempting to commit suicide. Inspector Doody of the II division said the prisoner es • notorious thief, and had given much trouble to the polio.. She was given into custod) by a lad for T obias him of two shillings and sixpence, but the prowettor was not forthcoming. He visited the primmer io beg vll • few minutes after she was locked up. and fated Mugs had stuffed • handkerchief down her throat. her eta sere protruding, she was black in the face and was °early ster listed. He dragged the handkerchief out of her mouth. al succeeded in reviving her. She threatened to make assite attempt on her life, end was very outrageous and He was obliged to put the hancicidis on her. Mr. Partridge said these appeared to he a mania emu the prostitutes to attempt suicide. He should remand fie and p he er h f o o ped r a vie th Me worthy chaplain of the prison. she would be OODlrinta k at to d t ta be r C a l t ork t.di en n w g el te l Il t o h ri e se ezod of b. Dete tinei ntaa . of the folly and wickedness of the rack act she had cm rattled. lifer Tenby, a women of the town, aged Zt, had served two weeks' probation under the Rev Ili Jephoon, in Clerkentrell prison, was brought up on to mend. The prisoner belonged to that dreadful pbe Palmer's-folly, Rate.liff.highway, where the woos Lacey has been also living. The prisoner leaped tout ti' swivel bridge of the London Dock, in ow ()wells". Ratcliff -highway. into the water, a few eights sine, sr. narrowly escaped drowning. A police constable ituord 4 We • boat, procured the drags, and saved her. Mr. Partridge said he had received a letter from the thr lain of the House of Detention, stating that be hail *.°' • deep impression on the mind of the prisooer, th , repented her suicidal attempt, and promised not to revolt The chaplain believed the prisoner was sincere. Ueda thy , circumstances he would discharge the primmer. A great number of unfortunate women have Ore* themselves from the swivel bridges in Old Gravel-lane ix New Gravid-lane, and many of them have been droved. MELANCHOLY DEATR OF A FARMER AT TEl..s: MOUTH. —A abort time since, as Mr. Brock, farmer Coombe, near Teignmouth, was superintending the works; of a turnip cutter, he iocautiomsly put his baud to it i e .rit to remove some obstruction that occurred in the wackier! , where it was unfortunately caught between some of 1 3 ' slicing knives, which indicted a serious wound os s lacerating it in a fearful manner. Mr. B. B. Sull ,, t.!t. gees, was in attendance in a abort time, and awertswg that the " leaden" or tendons of the tack of the hard la bees severed. The medical gentlemen applied the I'e remedies, and the patient subsequently came under tr treatment of Mr. J. B. Bartlett, surgeon, of the tow. and progressed very favourably for a few days. Ber. , ro , impatient, perhaps, of the restraint put on his cr." activity. Kr. Brock ventured down to hie kitchen krte. be could be pronounced convalescent ; and it is presurn 4 he must have taken a chill, for the same evening syrui 44° of tetanus began to manifest themselves, sod continued increase in violence op to Thursday morning, whey (hi patient musk from exhaustion, and expired t o wards di , afternoon of that day. Mr. Bartlett was uneasily.; to t attendance throughout the time, but, altbou,:h pmrse l w much experience in cases of this nature, he was nuibk prevent a fatal termination in the present met - Western lad) Mercury. wi wl th fit he • th V€ th A. 811 It' his Lo and pi