The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

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IL Tmomommr—limMer. Um. Atilt. . 30s LONDON. FRIDAY. APRIL 10. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published TO-MORROW u usual, and during the Parliamentary moans, WEATITER Ittfdio6o6ll—even from hour to hour— are always unsafe in our fickle climate. The early morning, however, gives promise of a day worthy of the glad yet solemn anniversary of Easter. The atmosphere has lost its wintry sharpness, though it still gratifies the sense with a refreshing coolness. The breeze which wantons with the half-unclosed leaves, makes the blood of the young rush through their veins as the sap at this rubes upwards in tree and shrub; and remind► the old that earth participates not in their decay, but is redolent of life, germinative, as in the days of their youth. It is a fitting day for that high festival which hallows the return of Spring with religions reminiscences of the deepest, most comprehensive, and tenderest love, revealing itself through the most terrible and mys terious agonies. The inhabitants of the metropolis at least will have it in their power to celebrate this anniversary in a seemly spirit. After one o'clock the grounds and building of the Crystal Palace will be thrown open to the public. Hampton Court, too, we believe, OD the afternoon of this day, opens wide its attractive gates. liampstead-heath, Richmond, and Green wich Parks, with many a secluded green lane, and many a breezy common, are easily accessible to our fallow-eitizenu They can worship in temples made with hands in the early part of the day, and in the afternoon they can invigorate both mind and body by sauntering amid the debate, infantine beauties of returning Spring and inhaling the kindly spirit of the season. it has sometimes occurred to us that as the "trim gardens" of our ancestors, when their shrubs are allowed to put forth shoots free from the pruning knife, when their formal parterres are allowed to subside, and their stiff walks to deviate from the stiff line, present in their blended formality and freedom a more charming aspect than the moat natural effects of the landscape gardener, so fast days, which were once observed with puritanic asce ticism, when their observance is attempered with • wiser and milder spirit, make the best holidays. At least there are moods of the mind to which they are better attuned than days devoted to the exclusive search of pleasure. Religion gains, instead of losing, when thus associated with blameless joys. There surely can be no harm in saying this of days like Good Friday and Christmas, which, however sacred the meociations which cluster around them, no one will pretend to place on the same keel in respect of sanctity as the Sabbath. And, without any wish to shock or kart the feelings of any one, we think it due to ear own self-respect to avert our Christian liberty by frankly avowing - - sine the train of thought in which we have been indulging naturally raises the question— that the opinion we base expressed regarding the due soksinisation of the two great festivals of the Christian year we entertain also with regard to the due solemnisation of the Sabbath. One of the speakers at the dinner given at Hull in celebration of Lord Assumt's raters spoke with enthusiasm of the "main tenances of the eld-faahioned English Lord's Day." The phase exaetly expresses our sentiments on this head. We me for the " maintenance of the old-fashioned English Lord's Day," in contradistinction to that modern innovation—that unreasonable, Judaical, impossible Sabbath observance, which has within the last thirty or forty years been smuggled into England from the north side of the Tweed. In the good old times" our ancestors, after the religious .sloe of the day was over, gathered in their pariahs, ander the eyes of the lord of the manor and of the -parson, round the archery-botta, or even—whisper it gently—on the bowling-green. Time, that great innovator, has modified the habits of their descendants; we no more dream of resuscitating Sunday archery or how/a, than we do of thrusting our limber shanks into a bouncing pair of trunk-hose. But we do think the tranquil, sober enjoyment of the contem plation of the calm beauties of nature and art, a not unsuitable close for a day opened by devotional exercises. The devotional sentiment is that gift of Con for the possesaion of which we ought to be most thankful. It is the only firm holding ground upon which the barque of the soul can cast anchor in this tempest-tossed ocean of time. But to be elimeious the devotional sentiment ought to pervade our whole existence. It bears us up with pinions which incessantly require repose, though ever able after a brief interval of rest to soar again. It is im possible to keep the mind on the stretch of devotional excitement he a whole day ; as it is unhealthy to sate the mind with such excitement by keeping it so long an the reek, and thus rendering it dull end callous for the next six days. Let the Bab remain emphatically a holy day i bat let it that of which mere humanity is remain in ecstatic devotional medita te whole of the day. And let us pro intervals during which the soul again upon the earth, and into earthly emo• rinaita and pleasures as as most akin —the cultivation of the imaginative the beauties ef nature and art. The do this in their private gardens and the less favoured of fortune lave heir Albs and galleries, in which they an example. diffusion of such opinions to be con , much to the goodness as to the hap human beings, we confess that we have do and mortified at the moral cowardice • many who entertain them have bath still remain ua not attempt incapable—to re tion during the vide for the inter links down %pc tiena, reek puny to devotion—th faculty amid tin wealthy an do galleries ; kt thi public gardens follow the exam; Believing the derive quite as pines. of human been shocked am with which so THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY shrunk from their avowal on the hustings during the late elections. Nothing can be mare contempti ble than the time-serving duplicity evinced by vul gar and brawling bawler', wbehnued popularity by the safe courage of declaiming against the blan dishments of the Court and takmatrtly, in their eagerness to disclaim all sympathy - with the prop°. eel to throw open our public gardens and treasures of art to the general public on the afternoons of Sundays. It is melancholy to see a nation so en lightened as the English—in which every ninety nine men out of a hundred believe such a measure innoxious at the least if not beneficial---consciously playing the hypocrite to itself and servilely repeating the senseless ascetic phrases of a pretentious minority. May we not attribute to the loss of self-respect, which is the necessary consequence of such cowardice, the prevalence of a hard, vulgar abuse of conven tional religious phraseology which has so often shocked every rightly constituted mind during the late, electioneering ebullitions? When we read in a journal which lays claim to an exclusively religious char►cter, such designations as "the man of Coo" applied to a statesman whose most prominent charac teristic is a frank and fearless levity; and when we find another, when a leader of its own narrow-minded sect is announced as the successor to a vacant see, canting about the reward that awaits in a future life the Minister who was understood to have thus exercised his patronage for the sole purpose of increasing his political influence, we' cannot bet fear that we are relapsing into an age of Tartu fee, or Mmetrorniv, or Mother Coles. And all history is full of evidence that generations ad dicted to cant arc uniformly succeeded by genera tions in which profligacy braves the light of day with the most audacious effrontery and cynicism. On agricultural readers must have derived great satisfaction from that column of our paper of the Bth inst which shows that all the measures mom mended against the murrain have been taken de cidedly and in time. Supposing that those mea sures will be carefully and effectually carried out, three parties out of four will have done their duty. By an Order in Council, the QIIT.Z.V has prohibited the importation of cattle, and of everything belong ing to them, from the countries where the dreaded disease is raging. The Royal Agricultural Societies of England, Scotland,. and Ireland are sending out a well-qualified Veterinary Professor, to study the disease on the spot ; and the Commissioner is to be ac companied by a German gentleman of the same pro fession, to obviate any difficulty on the score of difference of language. Again, the managers of Cattle Insurance Societies are making known the names, claims, and localities of their respective asso ciations, exhibiting an amount of resource of this I kind greater than the agricultural public was per haps aware of. There has been dimes.. enough among cattle in some parts of England for the last few years to test the strength and soundness of some local insurance societies ; and it is to be hoped that every visitation of epidemic disease among cattle will find our stock-breeders and farmers better guarded against panic and loss, by means of a safe and sound insurance of the life of their stock. The owners of cattle are the fourth party, who have a very stringent and serious duty to perform at the present moment. They can do more towards the exclusion or mitigation of the mur rain than, to judge by appearances, they at present believe. It is this incredulity or apathy on the part of a multitude of farmers which makes it the duty of other people to rouse them to protect their own property. They may ask, and they do ask, whether a man may not be let alone to take care of his own property; and they inquire further who can be so meth interested in the health of their cattle as them- NM& But they should remember that, in the first gime, meat is 80 per cent. dearer in England than it was eighty years ago, and that an increasing pro preion of English society is obliged to do without it; and, in the next place, that famine and fever follow in the train of a cattle epidemic so serious as that which is raging on the Baltic now. Thus, society has a close and unquestionable interest in seeing that no means are left untried to induce farmers to take timely care of their cattle; and thus it is the duty of journalists to remind the agricul tural class of what they may do, and are bound to do, in counteraction of the dreaded calamity. Our agricultural improvers, and the new school who farm high, need no exhortation or instruction. Their stock are well housed, well fed, well aired, and kept in prime condition, under ordinary circus standee, and are therefore prepared to meet extraor limy dangers. Those who need rousing are the' homes who suppose that cattle can take care of ; inmeesives, and who believe a state of neglect to be a olds of nature, and therefore the right thing far Webs Now is the time for them to consider whether there are not some respects in which Nature, (rippled as she is by our interference, may be helped by a little rational care. If they duly consider, they will probably find that there are three ways in which their care may be well applied. The disease is n fever—malignant typhus fever ; and the means of prevention are of the same kind that wise people em ploy in their homes when they hear their neighbours dethe next street or alley are down in typhus lever. Though the disease is highly contagious in the cattle came, it is by no means certain that it an come only by contagion; end its prerelease anywhere may indicate a condition of the Maar phere or other circumstances favourable to the disease far beyond its range at the moment. dr. eumstancea may be favourable to cattle typhus here at this moment, though the disease has not yet ap peared; and the state of things in the Baltic pro- ViDCOS looks like a warning that it is so. There are three kinds of precautions which every owner at cattle ought to take under such circumstances : pre cautions against amp, against dirt, and against un whinier* enwmpeneent of the food. At this time of poor, as well as in autumn, our mime, and other selection than that of smell, in firm as, in monis states of the wind, in what direc tion the Ems marshes lie. For cattle, spring is, the Meet =healthy season there—the Amp sm ill =benge heel winter food to the rank gran of the marshes, causing a tendency to fever. It is well known that cattle brought frees Maw nide= have a seasoning to go throe* on am he Who both in Essex and in Lincoimike. New is the time for seeing that thediteimeare dose, and he going to some expense, if asessimiy, l• beep the cattle off the damp grounds, or to MA them cm gradually. On the highest grounds, care is mew airy. Yorkshire stork-fammrs, high ip om the moors, are apt to lase cattle in bogs ; and hen is ND part of the country where the murrain would meet with more encouragement than among the old fashioned yeomen who never think of hued% their stock at night, or keeping them oat of bees ad ditches, or even of giving them dry standing-reom when they are at home. Everywhere in England, it may as well be remembered, that a cow is the worse, and gives less milk,for every drop of rain that falls on her cost ; and that if we let our cattle stand on wet ground, we have no more right to complain of losing them by cough or fever, than to woodsy at dying ourselves if we sit in wet shoes. At present it will be worth a little time and pants to keep the stock off wet grass morning and night, and even to dry their feet, and nib the back of the legs before they mottle for the night. Good cavalry soldiers do *is with *air hones regularly on board transports; and elsewhere, nude? certain circumstances. The ',trouble would be at least as well bestowed on cattle in wet districts, and in sickly sesame. No damp straw ought to be allowed to lie ; and beasts that have a perforated floor under them have a better chance lben any others. The kindred curse to damp is dirt. There is inn dirt in farmyards and cattle-stalls than thus mg to be; but there is still enough to poison whale neighbourhoods, wherever a slovenly farmer seethe down. Where the cattle are crowded, they will be the Let to be lost. Each beast must have a spaced sir rowed it, and some opening above its bled for the air to be changed. A door at the end is oat enough, nor a window or two. There should be evenings in the roof, with a tile for a penthouse to keep out the rain. No filth should remain so as to spoil at all the freshness of the air ; and, above all, none should be allowed to taint the water used by the bents. It may be added, that cattle which are allowed to plaster themselves with ang and mud, and are never cleaned, may be expected to drop early, if the murrain comes. In the best seasons they are the most plagued with flies, the most subject to cough, and to all congestion of the internal organs. On the other hand, those which have the finest health are such as know well the touch of the currycomb. It is no uncommon sight now to see the currycomb hanging up in the stall, and the stock-keeper proudly stroking the silky coats of his healthy COWS. Beasts with silky coats, and the pare skins, bright eyes, and firm teeth which belong to them, , are as secure against the epidemic as prudence can make them ; and the few minutes a day spent in making them clean are better employed than the wretched hours bestowed in phyeicking, and fu migating, and digging deep graves, and burying and burning, when the murrain is upon us. The immediate risk in regard to food is, just now, of making too sudden a transition to a rich and full grass diet after the low trondition in which the ani mals usually are in early spring. A word of cau tion about this is as good as a chapter, for every farmer knows the mischief of any derangement of the digestive functions from overfeeding or sud den change of food in spring. It remains that the closest watchfulness should bo exercised. A careful eye should be on the beasts all day long; and any one that stagger' or droops in the least should be at once sepa rated from the rest and taken in hand under the best advice that can be obtained. It is to hoped that we shall hear no more of " wise men " and their exorcisms, no more such nonsense about bewitching and the evil eye, as has lately disgraced us in the sight of nations who educate their working classes. Instead of listening to tales about witch doctors, we should be informing ourselves about the course to be taken when cattle are attacked by the epidemic. It is understood that the Commissioner sent out by the Agricultural Societies will probably be home again within a month. No doubt, the in formation be brings will be made publicly known, as speedily and extensively as possible ; and then every man will know what to do, happen what may. Meantime, it is clear what every owner of cattle has to do—to feed his beasts prudently; to keep them dry; to keep them clean, in their bodies and their stalls ; to give them fiesh air, and spare them bad smells ; and to watch them, each and all, that no symptom of illness may pass unnoticed for a single hour. In the last serious marrain in this country, careful farmers examined every beast, from tongue to hocks, four times a dad•. If we shrink from the trouble of precautions, we had better picture to ourselves the German peasants who are now burying 90 per cent. of their sick cattle, and breathing stench because they cannot put them underground fast enough. It is absurd—it would be wicked—to make a grievance of any trouble or rational cost in money which can save us from such a Cana. WE arc told that the choice of Ministers bas fallen on Mr. EVELYN DENISON as the person best quali fled to occupy the position of Speaker of the new House of Commons. Other names have, indeed, been mentioned as likely to divide the sufi'rages of the Liberal party; and more than one member of the Opposition has been spoken of as possessing claims of more or less validity to the vacant chair. We willingly abstain from the invidious task of comparison : in the present case we believe it to be unneceuary, and therefore worse than useless. It is not likely that a trial of party strength will take place on the first day of the session. As between Liberals and Conservatives the disparity of force is too great, the preponderance too overwhelming, to admit of any reasonable doubt u to the issue of such a contest ; and having regard to the permanent strength and stability of the popular party itself, we confess that we have no de sire to see a conflict of personal pretensions for the Chairmanship of the Common, between men who sit upon the same side of the Douse. Assuming, then, that Mr. DtNtsott will in all probability be chosen without opposition, it becomes our duty to ask, what manner of man is he on whom a trust so notable and so important is likely to devolve ? The family of which Mr. DENISON is the bead owes its origin, like that of so many of our leading gentry, to successful mercantile enterprise. Its founder made a fortnie in trade—we believe at Leeds —more than a century ago; and more than one of its members have honourably distinguished themselves in the law and in other walks in life. The present proprietor of Ossington was born in the first year of the century, and succeeded at a very early age to the position he has since occupied. If we are not much mistaken his first experience u a man of business was derived from the systematic pursuit of agricultural improvement on an extensive scale, and the application of means at the time regarded generally u almost empirical to the reclamation and development of the resources of the soil. But while • thus engaged in works of local usefulness Mr. DENI SON was not insensible to the attractions of political • life. After quitting Oxford he bad, in company with' the present Lord Danny and Mr. LAnoucnEßE, made a protracted tour through the United States of Ame , eke. Soon after their return each of the three friends entered Parliament; and all of them took an early interest in the struggle of parties then for the most part concentrated on the great question of ' Catholic Emancipation. On the accession of Mr. CANNING to the Premiership in 1827, Mr. STANLEY and Mr. DENISON were both called upon to fill sub • ordinate office, the former as Under-Secretary for ' the Colonies, the latter as one of the Lords of the Admiralty. By his marriage with the daughter of the late Duke of PORTLAND, Mr. DENISON bad become closely connected with the family of Mr. CANNING, and it is probable that bad that gifted statesman lived, hi, young friend would have speedily filled a position of greater official proud- I nenee. Whether owing to Mr. CANNtNO'S premature t decease, or to some other cause of which we are I unaware, it does not appear that tho member for Nottinghamshire formed a part in any of the Liberal kt, APRIL 10,,J857. administrations subsequently formed. We have toms recollection of a criticism passed by him es the man position of the Government of 1846, of which Lad JOHN Iit'SSELL was the head—the gist of which, if wo remember aright, lay in pointing oat the absence of territorial influence as represented in the Cabinet then formed. We apprehend that the sympathies of the Speaker elect have always been emphatically, though we aro far from saying exclusively, identified with the landed interest ; and it is a somewhat curious coincidence that his elevation to the chair of the Lower Ileum should come at a moment signalised by the extrusion from Parliament of the more con spicuous leaders of the Manchester party, and by the return of a good number of country magnates to the Liberal banner. But there is another coincidence not unworthy of note, and illustrative of a truth of deeper import. The party of Mr. CANNING, containing though it did many of the best and ablest men of the time, seemed to have been scattered to the winds by his premature decease. That of Sir ROBERT PEEL, after seven long years of varied struggle, has now like wise vanished from the scene. It is a strange and significant fact that the three greatest posts in the. empire are at this moment tilled by three of the individuals most closely allied with Mr. CAN NING'S fame and fortunes. His eon is Governor- General of India; the nephew of his wife may already be said to be Speaker of the House of Commons ; and his trusted friend and adherent, whom he first raised in 1827 to the dig nity of a Cabinet Minister, is Premier of England. Are these all accidents? We think not. Are they evidences of some cunning design ? Assuredly no. But we are not wiwilling to ascribe such a concur- mace of circumstances to that silent but sure work ing of compensatory justice which in the long run sways the judgment of a free and reflecting people. Mr. Cs.visasio was the victim whom in their despair the Tory party sacrificed, without shame or scruple, on the threshold of power. Sir Rental PEEL, whose hand uo penitent ablutions could cleanse from the stain of participation in that das tardly decd, was twenty years later driven forth from the same door where his great rival had perished. And now that both have passed away, and all trace of those who adhered to them as politi cal parties has vanished from the scene, it is not vio -1 instructive to find that in the national remembrance a place is still kept for those whom CANNING loved to honour, and that a generous preference is given to them over Peelites of every degree. We entertain no doubt that Mr. EVELYN DEMI hON will discharge with dignity, fidelity, and con sistency the duties of the station he is about to occupy. Ile is a man of a punctilious sense of honour; a man of stainless life ; a man of more than thirty years' experience in the business of Parlia ment ; a man of sound and enlightened dews ; and, in the best sense of the term, an English gentle man. We do not know that we agree with Mr. I wsisom in all his political opinions, but we arc free to say that we do not think a better man could have been selected for Speaker of the House of Commons. at Coun. The Duellers of Kent joined the royal party at Buckingham Niece after dinner on Wednesday arming. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prin. CPR. of Dolienlche langenbarg, took a drive in an open carriage and four yeeteedey aftersons. Loot Alfred Paget and Captain Du Plat attended on horseback.. . . The Prince rode on boneblack with the Prince of Wales in the forenoon, attended by Captain Ds Plat The Princess Royel visited the Towhees of Rent yester day at Clarence Howe, St. Jame's. Her Royal Highness paid a visit to the Duchess of Gloucesesr at Glouoister ilonar, on Wednesday. The ' Princess Faction, of Hohenlobe Langenburg, the Marquis of Breads Thane, and Viaeount Palmerston dined with the Queen in the evening. Lord Cursors@ has snecsoled the Earl of Csithoess Lord-ie-Weitiur to bee Majesty. The Duchess Ot Kent took *Carriage drive yesterday. The customary Royal Bounties and Gate Alma ware issued on Friday and Saturday last, and on Monday and Tuesday in the current week, to the aged end meritorious poor in the various parishes and dietriets be end round London, at the Ahem:try-OW, Sconsad-yard, under the orders at the Lord High Almoner and the Sub Atomiser. The ancient and royal charities of Maundy Thursday were distributed yesteniay to 38 Maundy men end 38 Maundy women, with the customary formalities, in Whitehall chapel. The number of each sex corresponds with the age of her may. At two o'clock in the &Remora a procession connoting of a detachment at the Yeomen of the Guard under the com mend of an usher (one of 'the yeomen carrying the Royal Alma in • gold salver of the reign of Ring William and Gwen Mary), the Rm. Dr. Jeff, Sub-Almoner, humph Hanby, Fee., Secretary and Yeoman of the Mowery, and his melatant, accompanied by Az children from the National Schools In Westanineter, who had been selected in considers lion of their good conduct, proceeded to the chapel. The arrival of the procession having been noosed to the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner, his lordship, accompanied by the Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal, preceded by Mr. Lamed, Serjeant of the Chapels, met it at the en trance, sod took their places after the Yeoman with the Alms. The whale procession then advanced in the following order:—The TIMM Usher, the Salver of Alma, the Set jeant at the Chapel Royal, the Lord High Almoner, the Sub- Dean and flab-Almener, the National Children, the Yeo man of the Alagrzy and hie Amistant, the Yeomen of the Guard,. to the step et the altar, and those composing it baring taken their assigned places on either side, The dearth SRAM (a medal ser►ice for the occasion) was then read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian. The Rehortatka, Confeeekm, and Absolution. The dlat Psalm (the Grand Chant). The Tint Leroy, 254 - I:chop - .84. liatthow, the 14th to 31st First Anthem (41st Plabm), "Blamed is he that oonaidaelh the poor and needy."—Sir Oeoege T. Smart. It. 16s. distributed to each woman, and to each man shoes and stoeldngs. Second Anthem (a prayer)—" Hide not thou thy taco from an. 0 Lord." Valmont. Woollen and linen clothe were then distributed. Third Anthem (61st Psalm, dtk, 7th verses, and the 18th verse of the 132nd Pialm)—" 0 Lmd, great the Omen a leap Bic."—Noes. Parsee were next distributed each red pane contained V. 1t.., and the white pans the silver root.. The Second Lamm, 25th cbspter, St. Matthew, beginning at the 31st verse. The Fourth Anthem—The let and 16th verses of the 63rd chapter of Isaiah, end the 9th verse of 21st chapter of Mat thew, Who is this that cometh from Edon+ p'—Arnold. Two special prayers comNald for the OCCASiOR followed, end the amid @mete proms dto its clam. The clergy ham her Majastfs Chapel Royal who attended on this maiden were the Revs. Dr. Vivian, 1141, Ponds, Henson+, end Annaba'. The gentlemen of her Majesty's Chapel Royal in atten dance were Messrs. Hobbs, Bisdbary, Hamby, Machin, Chapman, Senna, and Forster, and the choristers. Sir Chants Smart, who prided at the organ, composed the first anthem for this momeen. Droplet's. wee sent from the Colonial-office yeatercley to the Gammon of the Nash American provinces. Hie Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Cowden de Paraffin will leave town for Paris on Thunday next, and sot to-day ma lima been stated. Mr. and Lady Isabella Stewart have arrived in Beigraaw•omm. floe Ards, meaty Donegal, for the season. . . The Right Hon. M. T. Mies writes to the Times as follows, relative to some remarks besting of his Atoms for the Speakenhip —" There are two points in your article of this day on which I beg leave to say a word, as they are cal eukted to create sashay on the part of my essetitseste and friends. The writer apposes to be under the impremion that my health is now bed, sad, moreover, that I have been visited with an estnerdinery indiction of ahattelpfitednees. As to the OM, I sm ems ray friends will be pled to know that I was arm better in my life; and se to the second, that with the aid elan ordinary pair of short-sighted glares I ma .ase as wait Si any era." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BANK OF FRANCE. (BY 31111 1 1111 AND 111: 8888 1151 TELZGRAPII.) (PROM OVR OWN CORRWSPONDINT.) PARIS, FRIDAY' MOILVIKO. The Muni!~ of this day publishes the monthly returns of the Bank of France to Thursday, April 9. We give the most important items, with the cor responding figures of last month, en regard : April. March. Coin and bullion, Paris 106,068,194 .... 107,156,914 Ditto ditto breach banks Bills diacounted, Paris 263,365,449 .... 239,305,911 , Ditto branch banks Notes in circulation, Paris Ditto branch banks Treasury deposits Private deposits, Farb. Ditto branch banks Advanced on public aseurities 24,162,436 .... 19,954,136 Ditto by branch banks Advanced on railway securities 13,728,100 .... 14,213,000 Ditto by branch team 6,866,850 ..., 6,943,150 DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 8. The ministers have in a body tendered their resig nation to the King to-clay. This crisis is not owing to any fresh steps taken by foreign powers. The Nord of Brussels steal in the reply of the cabinet of St. Petersburg to the circular despatch of M. do Scheele—Russia recommends Denmark to dis play deference and conciliatory dispositions towards the great German powers, and engages her to discuss, the question with Germany in a direct manner,sith out heightening the difficulties by any intervention on the part of other parties. The same journal states that, " according to explanations given by the Danish government, the major portion of the pro ceeds of the funds derived from the capitalisation of the Sound dues will be employed in paying off the two loans contracted in London in 1849 and 1850, which prove a heavy burden to the country." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (►IOM OVi OWN PARIS, THURSDAY EYRNINO! The following programme of the Grand Duke Constantine's visit to France is given by the Paine His Impede]. Highness will arrive at Toulon, on April 23, where ho will be received by the Minister of Marine. The Grand Duke will not be in Paris till May 1. His may will be limited to a week. A grand review of the Ist division of the army of Feria will be give in his preemie The city of Paris is already making preparations far splendid ffte which will call to mind that given to Queen of England. On leaving Paris his Imperial H' nes, will go to Fontainebleau where the Emperor will do the honours of that imperial chateau. The Bourse has been much better to-day, it being certainly known that the Bank of France has taken no new restrictive measures. There was on appre hension in the morning that the Bank of England might again raise its discount, but as it was under stood in the afternoon to be certain that nothing of the kind had been done, the market closed exceed ingly firm. The Bente rose 25c. for cash, and 40c. for account, closing at 69fr. 20c., and 69fr. 50e. Mobilier rose 30fr. The railways, many of which, at the opening of the market, had been depressed, almost all participated in the upward movement. Orleans rose 17fr. 15c. ; Northern, 13fr. 73c. ; Lyons, 17fr. 60e.; Mediterranean, 4.5 fr. ; Eastern, 10fr. ; Grand Central, 2fr. 60c. Western and St. Itambert were a trifle lower. The Austrian railways rose 1 lfe. 25c., and Sardinian Mr. If the French government desires effectually to crush all opposition on the part of the press it must owner or later resolve that any citation from the works of the prisoner of Ham shall entail a " warning." Whatever may have been their intrinsic merits, it is quite certain that the "Ides Napoleoniennes " never com manded any appreciable degree of public atten tion until after the successful coup defog of Decem ber 2. But now the republican and legitimist journalists are never without this work in their pockets, hoping to find in it some passage that they may safely quote against a government measure. But very little effrontery would be necessary to put forward a plausible pretext for repressing these awkward quotations. Applying the axiom that the devil can quote scripture for his purpose, it might easily be laid down as a role that the profane vul gar are not to cite isolated passages front an almost inspiredwork which is of "no private interpretation." En attendant some measure of this kind, the Slick now ventures to reprint from the great work in question some bitter passages against that old no bility to which it is now intended to give a sanction by law. The prisoner of Ham laughed to scorn dukes and counts without tangible dukedoms and earldoms, and likened the consideration attaching to them to the rays of extinct stars, which, on account of their immense distance, are visible in this planet twenty years after their extinction. The measure now before the Council of State with the recommend ation of Napoleon 111. to be "prompt in deciding the important question," is simply one for perpetu ating the dying-out rays of extinct stars. Although no official announcement has yet been made that the Imperial Prince walks alone, an en graving has just appeared in the print shops repre senting the interesting baby with nothing on but a shirt, making his premier pas. The nurse, in her provincial costume, is kneeling down by the aide of the cradle presented by the city of Paris. She stretches out her arms on either aide of the shoulders of the infant, and, indeed, supports him with that pious fraud which accompanies every first " going alone." The child advances towards the Empress, seated in an arm chair, behind which is the Em peror with an expression of wonder and delight dr pieted on his countenance. Whether this is an actual or anticipatory portraiture I cannot say, but u the prince is now nearly thirteen months old, he ought to walk alone. Lieutenant-General Ashburnham has arrived in Paris on his way to Marseilles, where he will em bark for Chins, to assume the command of the in fantry destined to invade the Celestial Empire. Lord Elgin is expected to pass through Paris after Easter. A correspondence states that the Emperor's grand chaplain, who has gone to Rome, will bring back with him terms likely to lead to an arrangement in the affair of the Bishop of Moulins. It is reported that the Pope has recommended the bishop to be more circumspect for the future, and that, in consi deration of this admonition, the Emperor will not press for the dismissal of the prelate. The whole subject of the supply of butchers' meat to Paris, including the question whether the trade shall be thrown open or not, and whether the tax shall he continued, modified, or abolished, is now under the consideration of the Council of State. A ticket-porter et Boulogne, named Nagle Smith (probably an Englishman), has been sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment and a fine of 50fr., for the oeence of uttering " false news." PRUSSIA AND SWITZLRLAND. According to the Bund the following are the conditions which Dr. Kern brought forward at the fifth sitting of the conference as the only baus on which Switzerland would conumt to trent : 1. Prussia is to acknowledge the complete lode pendence of the canton of Neufchatel of every foreign tie ; and, as a consequence of this, the King ' O , to formally renounce all pretensions whatsoever to that country. 2. Switzerland cannot admit a preliminary msg. nition of Prussia's rights of sovereignty over Neuf chatel. 3. Switzerland concedes neither to the present S • King of Prussia, nor to any member of the Royal family of Prussia, the right of bearing the title of Prince of Neufchatel. She is bound, therefore, no w and for ever to protest against any sort of pretensions which might afterwards be deduced from this title, disputed, as it is, by Switzerland. 4. The charitable institutions now existing in the canton are to be recognised as such, maintained, and placed under the protection of the constitution, a n d of the laws of the country. As for guarantees of another kind, no question of them can be enter. Wised. 5. The Confederation will proclaim, for the authors of the insurrection of September, and for all who took part in it, a moral amnesty ; they canto, therefore, be p against, either criminally or by civil process, for acts connected with that 'Sic and other political offences. For the rest, they will enjoy, in common with all their fellow-citizens, th e protection of the federal and cantonal eonstitutioas. No special guarantee in their favour is admitted. 6. The Confederation undertakes to defray the expenses incurred by the occupation of the canton at Neufchatel and the levy of troops which took Sam On the other hand, all demands for an indemnity is mone y are rejected. _ _ . The Bond, which publiAes these conditions, says, it does not guarantee their perfect accuracy. NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO. MARSHAL MARMONT'S MEMOIRS. The following letter addressed to the3/ , hiteur by Count de Flahaut, who wax ono of Napoleon'. Wilts-de camp on the field of Waterloo, it by far the moat intireatog of the many protests that the potthurnout worts of the Dike de Ragusa have provoked: "London, Apriit 1857. "Marshal Marmon says (vol. 7, p. 111), in gi;ing Mee. count of the battle of Waterloo In the coupe of the day, Napoleon found himself so far off from the field of battle thea he could not make the necessary modifications in the nem tion of his plans. More particularly he was unable to . n . port the cavalry movement in proper time. That muveterat being premature and isolated, was unclose, while, if the ' Guard had been sent forward oimultaneouily, the effect might have been deedalve. When the army was in disorder, Napo. loon's mind was so acted upon by terror that he fled at &gay far several karma, sad every moment (it was dark) foxy* be saw the enemy's cavalry on his flank, he sent people to IP conneltre,' It is impossible not to perceive the malice elfine whole story which, the Marshal pretends to have had has General Bernard. That cannot be true, because Omen! Barnard was a brave and honest man, and consequently in. of telling tisane of folnehwels. The Emitter !limed himself during the battle one hillock in the centre of the position, from which he could survey the whole of the operation', and from which he saw the advance of carat, ordered by Marshal Nev, and which did in point of fact appear to him premature and ill-timed. lie at once exclaimed, There's Ney turning a certainty into an uncertainty, but now that the movement is con. meowed, there is nothing to be done but to support it: He ordered me accordingly to carry an order that all the cavalry should advance to support and follow those troops which bad already crossed the hollow, which lay between them and the enemy's poeition. This was done, but unfortunately, u the Emperor had feared, the moment had not . . . COWS when such • movement might have bees suineadul. However it was impuseible to recall t h e equadrona that were already engaged. In war there see car. taro faults which can only be repaired by persevering ht them. I leave to Marshal Marmont the honour, which Ido not envy, of the parallel he has instituted (p. 124) between the leaden of the two armies, and of the KLare attributable to each in the results of the battle. He takes a pleasure praising the English General at the expense of the Emperor, but instead of taking so much pains to prove the Ems peror guilty of mistakes which lid to the fatal isms of the day, he might have understood that the unexpected snivel on our flank of 30,000 Emanuel, whose artillery swept our line of operations, was the real cause of the loss d the battle and its di oestrous consequences. The Duke of Wel• lington bad the justice to admit this in his report to his go. veranaent. As to the tenor which the Marshal pretend. the Emperor gave way to, I cannot better refute this false assertion than by stating facts of which I was an eye-witnese, and which therefore no OW is in • better position to bear witness of than myself. After having taken part in the succesaive attacks of the cavalry and the guard, and when the retreating movement had decidedly set in, I went to look for the Emperor. It wee dark. I found him in the centre of a square of Wm. try, and I did not afterwards leave him. After waiting there some time longer, the battle being irretrievably loot, lee left the field by the Charleroi road. We went slag not at • gallop, is it is infamously said in the memoir., but at a walk, and no pursuit of the enemy inspired the Emperor with any such hen ea the Members malice attributes to him. So far was the Emperor from being troubled with any personal fears, although the situation was not very reassuring, that being complete!) knocked up by the fatigue he had undergone during the ceding days, he several times fell asleep, and would hies fallen off his horse bad I not held him on. We arrived the next morning at Charleroi, where we took pest far Lion. There the Emperor halted to write the bulletin girls' en account of the fatal day, and he then set out for Perla This is the truth. Let the public compare it with Marsha Idarmont's malicioue and lying narrative, and then judge. But how can one express one's feelings of indignation sad diegust at seeing • man whose place it was to hope to be ke• gotten as the beet thing that could happen to him—thee attacking one who was his benefactor, and defame his no. mory after inning betrayed him when living ? COUNT LS FLAIIAXT." The Emperor of Austria has conferred on Mr. Paul Pretah, the inventorof the art of photo-galranography. the grand gold medal for arts and sciences in recognition of his artistica' perfection of the specimen prints which Mr. Pretsh has submitted to his Majeety. - Accounts from Naples state that the King of Bavaria arrived there on the 3rd. He was to leave on the 6th for Palermo, whence he would proceed to Greece and to France. • TEtE PARIS POPULACE AND TITE PRIESTS.—It has been stated that since the murder of the Archlsioliep of Paris by Verger, priests have frequently been Moulted into streets of Pone, end some aceounte of the condemnation ci men for insulting theta hove been given. On Wednesday the Tribunal of Correctional Police tried a man wend Couvretm, formerly a village schoolmaster, but now Clay a day labourer, for having publicly insulted tee of the clergy of St. Etienne do Mont. The Atli Dufour, cure of that parish, said that on the 19th of last month, es he was priming along the Quai de la Toured@ with eee of his curates, the prisoner cried, "0 ! the Vv. gem I the Vergers!" and then he folded his arms and land scornfully at them. The abbe naked why be insulted Mime but he denied that he had done eo; as, however, there MO no one else on the spot at the moment, it was evident that his denial was not true, and a police °direr who came q took him into custody. The abbe expressed his we , g having to complain of the man, but said that as several tins clergy had lately been outraged in the streets, and sa himself had been insulted more than once, he h it his duty to make the complaint. The president told that he bad done quite right. The Abbe Ittresignot t is ercompanied M. Dufour, confirmed that pentleman's ei•Walna The prisoner, when called on for hie defence, said that • the day in question he had had a conversation with a me named Leroy about the murder of the arehltiohep, and Matt had made such an impresoion on him that he had make* rally exclaimed " 0 ! the Vergers:" but he denied that Is had used the epithet with the intention of insulting Mite , clergymen. The tribunal sentenced the man to els mantle' imprisonment and 100 fr. fine. THE lIUSSTAN GOVERNMENT AND IRON SCUM Vzseeti.—Mesarr. Mitchell and Co., of Low Walker, ra the Tyne, are onnstreeting • fleet of iron screw steam vs,/ ranging from 200 to 1,190 tons, for the Russian service la the Black Sea. The same firm are also budding PA wheeled 'tamers to be employed on the river V 043, imam. of the kedge and warp vessels mentioned by Oliplum screw vessel', for St. Petersburg. Moms. I.swt of II and a Stockton house, are also exect l i a =tt: for the Russian marine; and this week a equipped iron screw of sn tone, named the Collingwe4 been despatched by Meese,. T. and W. Smith, of ttatn Shields, to Odessa, for the Russian government. - ks tit years fn 'swath bad bee years be meparath End the ages (in. &ennui! !PM wit child in Wale* d to the so Venter counO n t.try. portanc a bill n to provi depart tided b F., tw tional achol year 1835 tam e( total durini 21. of residu The vemln EN and si sIIIII 0 leavin the be Sin( !)3 , tit ings ul 48,000 w ry the em ES /To tends extend and 1111 bay, Albur, provini been to ita pee tion to