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THE reply of the FOREIGN SECRETARY to the Earl of Er mnionoccues generous and impassioned speech on Poland last evening was of course no adequate expression of the unanimous and pro found sympathy and indignation of the people of England—sympathy for a noble people in agony, indignation against a barbarous oppressor. A truly liberal Minister is to be pitied for the silence which his official responsibilities command at snch a moment, and upon such an occasion. Pitied; but not blamed by equitable and discerning men, who know well how on this Polish question, above all others, the commonest sense of self respect imposes upon English statesmen in Par liament the duty of keeping their public declara tions within, and more than merely within, the limits of the policy they are prepared to sustain in action. In such a case as this, the moral and political position of England as a Power in Europe is subordinate to her position on the map. As the greatest moral and political power in the world ou the aide of freedom, England owes to the cause of Poland all the force her public testimony can bestow ; and, as one of the Powers that signed the treaty of Vienna, it is her right and her duty to raise at least a constant pro test against a constant wrong. But, as an insular Power, separated by half a continent from Warsaw, England cannot touch the destiny of Poland with a finger's weight, except as a contingent to a French army, and at the cost of a war that must shako the European system to its base. These are considerations which may well make an English statesman chary of his words where he cannot see his way to acts. But there can be no doubt that Earl Rusexu. in his communications with St. Petersburg and Berlin will faithfully represent the British nation. The Governments of Russia and Prussia will find it unsafe to trifle with the feelings of France and England, when all honourable Frenchmen and Englishmen are of one mind. It remains to be seen whether the Prussian, or even the Russian, people will comment any longer to be the vengeful instrument of their own servitude and degradation. A question at this moment universally asked by the thousands who anxiously watch the pro gress and the fate of the Polish Insurrection, is how far both the intelligent and the popular class among the Russians may be disposed to disap prove of the conduct of their own Government, in first wantonlyprovoking and then ruthlessly crushing the Poles. Late years have displayed manifest symptoms that the educated Russians were ashamed of the savage cruelties by which their ascendancy in Poland was preserved. The Russian officers necessarily come from this educated class, whilst the Russian soldier is the serf in uniform. Of the revolution which events have worked in the mind of the Russian serf everyone is aware ; and no one now denies that the Imperial measure of emancipation was called for so peremptorily that delay would infallibly have produced a servile insurrection. One event which was influential in inspiring the Russian serf with new ideas and new require ments was undoubtedly the Crimean war. On those bleak shores and fatal hills the Russian sol dier came in contact with European civilization. Superficial observers may suppose that he merely saw formidable enemies, from whom he learnt that the CZAR was neither all-wise nor invincible. But he learnt much more than this. He saw soldiers treated by the governments which em ployed them like men. The French or English soldier might be a peasant like himself, but he was not subject to the rod ; his food was not that of a draught-horse, and his pay and pro spects were no illusion. Soldiers, he learnt, might rise to be officers, and come into the field, not as an holocaust to be offered to a Czar, but as men who willingly incurred the risks of war for the glory, the promotion which belong to the profession of arms. Such was the startling lesson which the Russian soldier learnt in the Crimea, and which he failed not to communicate largely, on his return, to his own peasant class throughout the land. We have heard from persons who have resided in Russia that tho Crimean war was not more influential in destroying the military prestige of the Russian Government in Europe than it was in opening the eyes of the Russian soldiers, and, through the Russian soldiers, of the Russian people. We have heard this affirmed long before there was a Polish insurrection ; and the question im mediately suggested itself—whether the Russian serf-soldier would be as well inclined as in years past to keep down his Polish brethren by the bayonet 1 The Polish peasant has long been, to be sure, an emancipated serf. But what he has gained in social advance makes him feel more keenly his political degradation. The Russian Govem rnent had probably no ides of meeting anywhere with resistance from the peasants. It would fain become the peculiar patron of the peasant in Poland, u in Russia. The proprietors of the land were obliged to exert themsidves in time to avert the fate of their Galician brethren. Even the Russian conscription was to leave the Polish peasant undisturbed until the intelligent and patriotic populations of the towns were weeded out. The clergy, however, have taught both clams their affinity; and the town refugee, instead of being repudiated by the rustic as a revolutionist, is welcomed by him as a suffering and persecuted brother. Whenever Russian troops in numbers were marshalled forth to quell the turbulence of a town population, such as Warsaw, there, no doubt, the troops could not but act according to command. But in the kind of war which has broken out, so completely contrary to all the previsions of the Russian Government, it is no longer in towns that troops have to act. Russian detachments have to pursue bands of Poles through wilds and forests : a subaltern has here full opportunity of following the secret impulse of his heart. Soldiers may display little zeal with out being brought to account for it. Some may join the insurgents : some may be lukewarm ; allow themselves to be disarmed and sent scrota the frontier. For a soldier cannot show himself mer ciless to a peasant population in the midst of which he serves, without inevitably drawing down summary vengeance upon himself sooner or later. He may survive battles, but not the persistent rage of a people. One great difficulty which military despotic government', if they endure, will find, is the danger and impossibility of extinguishing a flame of discontent in a widely scattered rustic population. Troops have been obliged to act against the people in towns, and though worsted on one or two occasions, have finally established their superiority. Popular resistance must henceforth take another form than that of barricades. Nor is there any chance of throwing off • yoke, save by its be coming general and intense throughout the culti vators and dwellers in the fields. When the troops and the peasants are of the same race and condition, the very extinguisher takes fire. Besides, the largest and bravest armies may be beaten, and their generals discomfited, by the enormous space in which they move. It is space that has beaten and baffled the armies of North America. They are lost in it, swallowed up by it, and strategy is a thing impossible amidst the vastness of a continent. Poland, we know, is not America. But a people united in purpose, yet dispersed upon a thousand points of resistance, and avoiding either collisions in towns or drawn battles with artillery, may succeed in wearing out, if not in destroying, any army that the Russians could collect. And, fertile as Poland is, Russia may find it hardly worth the terrible expenditure of an interminable siege and an incessant war to the knife. MULE VIDAL AWAIDID4 ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTKAITB and VIM:LUNG BAGS with LADIES WAKDROBII TRUNKS, TrarCi n TAGS, with DTP ATCH DOTES, WRITING and DIMING CAIN% and NO other kies toe hoes or ocethiental travelling. Mastrated SW&Mae' POgi Abo Alien's Barrack Furniture of Portable Bed Needs, Drawers, Buy Whales, Wthithand Canteens. Sta, W ° tree. J. W. ALLIS, 11thabetatree end Patentee, Ml, west Mead. London. W.C. THE EXPRESS, SATTJOAt EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1263. EDE erourt, WINDSOR CIRTLE, Fan. 20. The Queen and Princess Louis AHe walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Prince of Wales left Windsor Castle to-day, at tended by Major Teesdale, to honour the Dal and Counter Spencer with a visit at Altborp-park, Ncrthampton. The Hon. Lucy Kerr mad the Hon. Viebria Wortley have succeeded the Hon. Beatrice Byng and the Hon. Emily Cathcart as Maids of Honour. By a telegram received this morning, Ham Alfred, who has been suffering from an attack of fear co board her Majesty's ship fit. George, at Naples, had arrived at Malta, and is in the hospital there, progressing frourably. A deputation from Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the New Telegraph Bill. A deputation from the Board of Works for the Fulham district had an inter►iew with Secretary Sir George Grey yesterday, A the Home-office, respecting the Trusts Roads Abolition Bill. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Cconcil sat yeater day. An appeal from Madras, " Abraham v. Abraham" part heard), was concluded. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oboe from the Governor of Malta. tHR DUCHY OP CORNWALL. The Prince of Wales baring attained hie majo- My, the powers delegated to the "Council for the Affairs of the Dnchy of Cornwall " expire. In resigning their trust the members of that body hare presented a report to her Majesty, describing the "main features of the system of management they h►ve adopted, and the results that have been produced." The document contain an account of the administration of the duchy for a period of four and-twenty year'. The council was appointed under letters patent in 1838. The chief point of the instructions under which they acted (observes the rinser) was • direction to inquire into the system of laming sod disposing of the poesessions of the duchy, with the view of remedying any abases that might be found to exist in it. There had been abuses, which the council discovered much sooner than they could remedy them. But the work was began, and has been continual ever since. It appeared that in the old period of mismanagement, customs bad been aban doned, mute hat, fees and hernia not duly received ; boundaries bad become mattes, of doubt, and therefore of dispute, while adverse claims of cutting timber and fuel, and of pasturage, had been permitted to grow " into habit", if not into rights.* But these were small matters compared with the system of granting leases of portions of the pro. party for lives or in reversion, end commuting the greeter part of the rents for finer. It reduced the income of the &may to an amount that was no just manure of its fair mead value. The expeoste of the management of the doily property, before the appointment of the council, bad rise to 30 and 35 per ant of the realised revenue. Prom 1783 till 1830 the duchy was administered for the last Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., who re. cieved in the above period about 370,0094 from the fines taken on the renewal of lessee. From 1830 till 1837 the revenues of the duchy were received by William IV., and in his short term of seven years there seems to have bees an unusual number of renewals, as the fines produced 171,3431. This system ceased to exist under the adminis tration of the council. No leases are now granted for lives; • fixed term of years is in all cases substituted for them, and life laves have been exchanged for holdings on the more certain tenure. The old fines have, of course, taken the more regular and calculable form of rent. By these means, the report stater, "the council has established the income of the estates on a sound bas's," and at the seas time has enabled her Ma jesty, "by the investment of • surplus revenue, to provide a large sum for the privy pane of the Prince of Wales." While the revenue obtained from the duchy in 1860 was fourfold that of 1838, the expenses of its administration have not increased more than 1,2001. The estates of the Duke of Cornwall are by no means con fined to the county from which he takes his title. The derby derives rents from Gond, Hampshire, Bomersetahire, sad even from the suburbs of London. Boom of these out lying estates have been sold •ith advantage, other holdings have been exchanged. Some ancient dues and customs have been commuted, others have be come obsolete. Time has destroyed all that once made the Duchy of Cornwall a kind of sovereignty, with a peculiar people and special interest". The juriedictics of the Seminary Courts has been superseded, and the disputes that arise from mines and th,ir machinery are now among the nand punling and profitable came brought up to West minim-hall. The report of the expiring council meals to ifiemethe the last stages of the process by which the duchy hes been clawed of the ethos and remains of ancient usage, but s o degree of improvement will ever restore it to the importance it 003 e possessed as an appanage of the crown. Now, the *stets of many private gentlemen exceed it in Wm. Centuries ago the mime of the Earldom of Corn wall, afterwards converted into the prompt duchy, produced an amount of wealth in money that seemed inexplicable to the possessors of mere "lands and beeves." By the infiumes (Atha' exoeptional commend of money, an Earl of Cornwall Weems a candidate for the imperial crown of Germans. The extravagance and necessities of the sovereigns and their heirs exhausted • means of supply that for several ages seems to have been something of • mystery to the popular mind ; but of the revenues that still remained to the crown, in the matter of accounts the mystery came down to a ray modern period. The officials of the duchy ri quired so votes of salary from the Home of Commons, and the rents sod revenum were not paid into the public exchequer. We speak of • time before the settlement of the civil list on its existing conditions. Bat the council for the affairs of the duchy, who in this report render an account of their loos stewardship, present • very clear and simple babsesahmt, with the excellent results we have described. Jonly, aid with evident feeling. the council express their seem of the advantage they derived. for so many yearn, from the superin tendence of the late Prince Comport, They may,— " To kis just mind and clear judgment, his quick perception of what is right, his aiugular discretion, his remarkable aptitude for the conduct of affairs, we never looked in vela for guidance and advice on any occasion of di ff iculty. The sonodoess him opinions in all our deliberations was ren dered more apparent by the toleration with which be listened bad was slimy* ready to defer to those of others. He sever ' lest eight of the improvement of the condition of the trorot sod the labourer, while anxiously seeking to restore the ' property of the duchy to a state of prosperity ; and to him, we may truly say, it is mainly due that the PriDee of Wales will now enter into pomeesiou of an estate greatly Increased in value. and free from ne.rlv a ll th e disputes with the neigh bowleg proprietors mid others which at one time pre. veiled." THE HEALTH OF PRINCE ALFRED. The following telegram waa received at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Malta, at 9 p.m. yesterday evening : " The Prince is progressing favourably." MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. THE HOLTEEHOLD OF THE PRINCE or WAWA BEICILEGHAM PALACE, FE& l&—The following is substi tuted for that which appeared in the London oa:ette of Tuesday last :—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleamd to make the following appointments in his household To be Physkian in Ordinary : Edward Sieve _ . . king, .Foq., M.D. The uodermentioned'ahoald alno have appeared :—To be Surgeon•Dentiet : Edwin Saunders, Faq. We hear that the household of the Princess of Wales ham been determined upon, sod that the prioeipal posts will he filled u folloWs :—Chambarlain : Lord Harris; Indies of the Bedchamber: the Countess of Morton, the Countess of Macclesfield, the Counter de Grey, and the Countess of Gunarvon ; Women of the Bedchamber : the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Hm. Mrs. W. Grey, the Hon. Mts. E. Coke, and the Hon. Mrs. F. Stoner. The bridal gift of the King of Denmark to the Prinoms Alexandra is to coosist of a oopy, executed in gold and jewels, of the celebrated cross of Queen Darner, which forms one of the chief attractions of the Copenhagen Kneen of Art. The mon, which in the reign of Christian V. was recovered from the grave of that ancient sovereign, is one of the earliest specimens of Scandinavian art, and in its curious combination of enamel and filagree work has been long regarded as a treasured heirloom in the family of the Danish kings. The trousaean of the princess has been jut completed by the united labour of 120 sempstreises. The conduct of the work had been entrusted to Herr Levyaohn, a linendraper of Copenhagen. With the exception of the lace and some broderies, this portion of her highness's dowry is entirely due to Danish workmanship. It is stated that the government have agreed to bring in a bill to legalise a holiday for Saturday, the 7th of March, the day for the arrival of the Prinosm Alexandra. A meeting of Town Council of Birmingham wan held yesterday, the Mayor in the chair, the purpose being to take into consideration a resolution pulsed at a most influen tial meeting of the inhabitants on Monday, in which th e council was requested to rescind a former resolution, and to vote an adequate sum for defraying the expenses of the illumination of the public buildings, and some other festivi ties in celebration of the marriage of the Prince of Wales. Mr. Alderman Hawker moved a resolution to the effect, "That the expenses of commemorating in that borough the event of the royal marriage should be raised by voluntary subscriptions." Mr. Councillor Payton moved, and Mr. Alderman Lloyd seconded a resolution to the effect that a sum of 2,000/. be voted to be appropriated to defraying the oast of illuminating the public buildings, and other items of expenditure incurred in that celebration. After nearly four hours had been spent in debate, in the oourseof which there was much of fulsome palmlike of loyalty, a vote was taken, aadithe motion of Mr. Alderman Hawke, wee carried by :32 to 20, so that in whatever way the event is celebrated, is dependent on voluntary subscription. The resolution of the Town Council is directly in the teeth of the wish ex pressed by the most influential meeting held in Birming ham for many years. The committee appointed to carry out the irejoio logs in Southampton upon the marriage of his Royal High nees the Prince of Wales, on the 10th day of March next, propose to celebrate the auspicious event in the following manner, viz :—To supply all debarring poor families (esti mated at 4,000) with beef, bread, and beer, to be publicly distributed; ►ll the school children (estimated at 5,000) with tea, cake, and oranges ;„ to furnish amusements, consisting of old English sports, upon the Parade-ground; to provid e bands of music to play during the day, ands grand display of fireworks in West Marlands-field in the evening. The Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Duchess d'Anmale honoured the performances at the Olympic Theatre with their presence boat night. The latest news from Berlin states that the children of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, who were stated to be indisposed, are now much Viscountess Palmerston's party, intended for Ibis evening, is unavoidably postponed to Saturday, the 2f3th of February. The will of Henry Thomas Hope, Eaq., of Deep dene, Surrey, and of Castle Blaney, Monaghan, and Pic cadilly, was proved in London, on the 16th inst., by the executors and trustees—namely, the Earl of Lincoln, in conjunction with Edward Cane, Edward J. Rickard; and Hugh Hope, Ewe.. to each of whom a legacy of 1,5001. is bequeathed. The widow is also an executrix. The per sonalty in England was sworn under 300,01301. The tes tator also held extensive landed estates in Surrey, Glouces ter, Warwick, and Monaghan, as well as very large pro- perty iallolland. Mr. Hope was returned M.P. on three several elections, and represented East Looe in 1830-2, and Olowiester 1833-4 and 1847-52, and died, at the age of fifty-four, in December last. The will bears date 1&55, bequeathing to his relict for her absolute use the residue of his personal property, leaving also to her a life interest and au absolute power of disposition in and over all his manors, lands, tte., in England, Ireland, and elsewhere, and all other property, including jewels, pictures, seulpturee, works of art and virtu ; in default of which the whole of the property is to be held for the use of testator's only child, Henrietta Adele Countess of Lincoln, and her issue. The will contains legacies to the Rev. Mr. Harness, General Marcus Bereeford, and others, and to the servants, keepers, and labourers on the estates. . _ The first meeting of the Anthropological Society of London will be held on Tuesday next, IPA 4, St. Martin's plaoe, whoa an introductory addition will be delivered by Dr. James Haut, the president. The late prevalence of delightful weather (ayes the dike*cram) hu set thousands of persons asking " Did you ever we such a February before ?' Perhaps Mr. Glaisber, who knows what the weather has been fur fifty yearn or more, will answer the question. Such calm, sun- Oxley weather during the month which proverbially " fills the ditches ^ is remarkable. The elder, lilac, and black currant tram are in some places bursting into leaf. Gnats have appeared in warm, sheltered lanes; flies have been seen disporting in the sun; and on the 16th • bee was observed foraging among the yellow blossoms of the farce on the heights of Hind Head. The students of periodical phenomena will, no doubt, take note of these particulars. By socounte from Belgium, we learn that medal weather is also prevalent there ; more than ten days ago the chestnut trees were in leaf and roma in bloom. The Rev. John Woletenholme Cobb, IL A., Citrate of Northcbarcb, Herta, halt been appointed by the Lord Bishop of Oxford to the incambeeey of Kadmore.end. Osfordshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Francis Patrick Flemyrig, 11. A, On an early day, Mr. Fenwick will bring before the Howse of Commons the subject of the see coast fisheries of the country, and move for ao inquiry, with the view of increasing the food of the people. LAMEST I N TELLIGENCE. FRANCE AND POLAND. DIPLOMATIC INTERVENTION. Cram ova ow= 00PAIIIPONDZIT.) PARIS, Fames Evaamo. The Opinion Nationale (supposed, in this instance as in many others, to be inspired by Prince Na poleon) says, as "Latest News," that France has resolved to interfere diplomatically in favour of Poland. Whether this intervention is to take place in concert with England, or by France alone ; and what is to be the nature and extent of it, the Opinion says "it is not at present permitted to say." But it holds it to be certain that the inter vention will occur, and that speedily. Rumours of a like kind were prevalent at the Bourse, and the heavy fall of the day is attri buted to them. I have, however, received private information which assigns other reasons for the fall. lam assured that the news of a deprecatory note having been sent to Berlin is untrue. The real cause of the panic to-day is, I am told, a seri ous difference between the government and the budget committee which may very likely lead to the resignation of K Fould. The news from Mexico is in reality very bad. The supplementary credit of 26 millions for the budget of 1862 is con sidered by the committee as evidence that they were not fairly dealt with last year. Heavy drafts on the Treasury on Mexican account, within the last two months, show that the drain is going on, and that the estimates are but impudent fictions. It has been remarked that the house of Fould, Oppenheim, and Co., in which the Finance Minister has an interest, has been converting its securities into cash with extraordinary precipitation, and this fact gives weight to the rumours of M. Fonld's re signation. The Rente fell 55c. for cash and 50c. for ac count, closing at 69fr. 600. in each case. Mobilier fell 47fr. 50c. Railways were less affected, and fell only from 21r. 50c. to sfr. It is stated in other quarters that im mediately after the cabinet council held at Paris on Wednesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs was instructed to write a despatch to the French ambassador at Berlin to be com municated to the Prussian government, setting forth that the Emperor of the French bad heard with much dissatisfaction of the convention con cluded between Russia and Prussia on the Polish in surrection, such convention being contrary to the principle of non-intervention, to wbich he him self had always adhered. (amyrint's Taro Lug.) PASTA Ihruansr. The Constitutionnel of this morning, in an article upon the Polish insurrection, signed by its chief editor, M. Limayrac, says : "The Polish insurrection might, at its outbreak, be considered as a matter of interior policy, but the intervention of Prussia has rendered it a European question. The disapprobation of the conduct of Prussia has been unanimous. Prussia might have convinced herself that she committed a great mistake by seeking to establish between Prussia and Russia a solidarity which does not exist. "The convention of the Bth of February has created a false state of things between Russia and Prussia. If it were conceived in the spirit indi cated it may have grave consequences. "It may be doubted whether, in the haste of Prussia to aid Russia, Europe may not see under the present arrangement of the map the old name of Poland, and instead of an insurrection of sub jeAs against their government, see a reclaiming of nationality. "It would be weighing afresh the whole ques tion to renew the scene of the partition, and voluntarily put before the eyes of the world an act of iniquity against which the conscience of generations has not ceased to protest. " This question casts deep and great disquietude in the midst of Europe; and at what moment does Prussia consider herself bound to assume such a responsibility? When France, giving an example of scrupulous respect for treaties and of modera tion in her policy, and doing violence to her most earnest sympathies, has abstained from expressing even by a word the interest she has borne, and will always bear, for her ancient and , unfortunate allies. "Let us still hope that the text of the conven tion between Prussia and Russia will for the moat part dissipate these apprehensions. "In any case the counsels of friends will not have been wanting to Prussia, and she now knows what the whole liberal Europe thinks of this vio lation of the principle of non-intervention." THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBER AND THE POLISH INSURRECTION. We have now a full report of the debate in the Prussian Chamber on Wednesday, respecting the intervention in Poland. The Foreign Minister, it will be remembered, refused to give any reply, merely saying that the government had received "recommendations" from the foreign governments, but not threats. The remarks upon the ministerial statement which were then made by the well known liberal chief 114. Wal deck, deserve to be given. M. Waldeck said :—" The government has not replied to the question whether there exists a convention. A convention must, therefore, exist ; for otherwise a simple no' would have been the answer suit able to Prussian honour. But if it does exist, it shall not compel us to render police services." M. Waldeck then reviewed the policy of Russia since the partition of Poland. "In reality," he said, " Prussia conquered Poland for the benefit of Russia. Our frontiers are not threatened. When in voting on the budget we say that we cannot assent to such or such an item, the minister replies, You will not assent to it ; good, that will not prevent me from incurring these expenses.' When a oonven tion is concluded which affects our children and our property, the minister says, I will not make it known.' Can it be a matter of indifference to us that our sons are made to discharge the officeof hang ! men? We cannot place the fortunes of the people, and the lives of their children, at the disposal of the rash policy of the present government. We are ignorant what amount of reserves has been called out, and yet according to the law of 1814 the reserves ought not to be called out except in case of war. If a convention has been concluded, let it be branded here, before the country, and before Europe, as contrary to the interests of Prussia and to international law." Dr. Virchow declared it highly desirable that government should reply by a negative to the state ments that had obtained circulation and credence to the effect that not only had the Prussian government agreed to crows the Russian frontier, but that the Russians were to be allowed to cross that of Prussia and to wage war against the insurgents on Prus sian soil. The chamber had a constitutional right to make inquiries on this head. He (Dr. Virchow) expressed sympathy for the population of the king dorn of Poland, a sympathy shared by the whole civilised world. The government would have acted more wisely by counselling that of Russia to mild ness towards the Poles than by entering into such a convention. Among other speakers were M. Hnnruh, who protested against the policy which pl&ced Prussia in the tow of Russia We may repeat the resolution, which it will be seen from one of Renter's telegrams, has been all but unanimously agreed to by the commission to whom it was referred by the Cham ber. " The interest of Prussia requires that in the insurrection which has burst out in Po land, the government shall give no assistance or fa vour either to the Russian government or to the in surgente, and that consequently none of the com bating parties shall be permitted to enter the Prussian territory without having been previously disarmed." It is stated in one of the French papers which professes to give an analysis of the convention, that it contains secret clauses, in which provision is made for the eventuality of a direct intervention, " other than diplomatic," on the part of the Western powers, on behalf of the Poles. (11ZOTElell TILZGRAN. ) BERLIN, SATURDAY. In yesterday's sitting of the committee on Polish affairs none of the ministers nor any royal commis sioner was present, and no communication was re ceived from government. The committee resolved that this circumstance should be entered in the protocol of the sitting. The proposition of the liberal section of the Chamber in reference to Poland witB agreed to almost unanimously, three members only voting against it. Upon the essential points of the pro position, indeed, unanimity of opinion prevailed. MM. Bonin and Singer were opposed to any aid being given to Russia. POLAND. There appears to be no doubt that the Polish insurrection has extended in Lithuania. From Siematyce the insurgents withdrew into the forest of Bialowiezka, in the government of Grodno. This forest contains a superfices of 40 square miles, and with the exception of the isolated dwellings of a few charcoal-burners, the only inhabitants to be met with are hunters and the various persons employed there by the State, who are assembled in a single village in the midst of the forest.' "There is not anywhere," observes the Austrian Gawtte, "a more favourable spot for carrying on a partisan war." According to a letter from Szezakowa, in the Ost-Deutsche Post, travellers arriving from Russian Poland, who have had an opportunity of seeing the bands of insurgents, state that they include a large number of Hungarians in their ranks. GREECE. The Paris Prase of to-day says :—" The Greek triumvirate is constituted. It consists of Bulgaria, Rouffos, and Canaria, who at first refused but ultimately yielded to the remonstrances of the French minister. Thus the republic has be come a matter of fact, and all parties, tired of temporising, and impatient of the provisional, seem resolved to attach themselves to it. Some speak of putting the young republic under the English protectorate, which would console many for Prince Alfred's refusal." (itzunnt's Traimum.) AMERICA. ROCHE'S POINT, FEEL 21, 11.50 sat. The Australasian steamer, from New York, is now coming in. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PEON OUR OW COI PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. At the funeral service performed yesterday in the fashionable church of St. Clothilde for the soul of the Duke de Levis, lately deceased, many people were puzzled to know what could be the meaning of the words inscribed upon the catafalque, " Second Christian of France." The explanation is that when Clovis was converted, the first noble who offered himself to be baptised was the ancestor of the Montmorencys, and the second the ancestor of the Duke de Levis. The pedigree of the Count de Chambord's late right-hand man goes back, how ever, to a much earlier date in history. The French aristocratic name of Levis is all one with the Lewises and Levys of Curaitor-street and Hounds ditch. They all claim descent from Jacob's son, Levi. The French Lenses trace their descent from a first cousin of the Virgin Mary. In the ancestral hall of the Dukes of Levis, in Brittany, there is an antique picture representing au interview between the founder of the family and his relation, the wife of Joseph the carpenter. The parent of the house of Levis is represented in the act of taking off his hat, and a scroll issuing from his mouth bears the words bon joss, use cousins (good day, cousin). The Virgin replies, course: roue, mom cousin (put on your hat, cousin). What " boast of heraldry " can beat this A duel with sabres took place the morning before last in the forest of Bondy between two Hungarian emigrants, M. de B— and Capt. N—. The latter received a rather serious cut on the head. Whilst the wounded man was being conveyed to his resi dence, the gendarmery of Bondy, having been in formed of the affair, arrived and arrested M. de B— and the seconds. They were taken to Pantin, and placed at the dispo.lal of the commissary of police. The Empress Eugenie, on Ash Wednesday, "received cinders"—that is, allowed a priest to mirk on her forehead the sign of the cross with ashes, and tell her as be did so to remember that she is dust and will return to dust ; and it is said by a corresp.mdent of the Press that she made all the people at court go through the same ceremony. Her Majesty has also notifiod that she will expect the fasts which the church orders for this solemn season to be observed, and that during the Lent the cour tiers must be as diligent in the confesaion and ►ttendance at church as she is. A painful loss (says Ga/ignaui) has just been experienced by a family connected by sloes ties with the Emperor of the French. The Princess Julie Bonaparte, Marquise de Rucvtgiovine, suddenly left Paris a few days back for Rome, to be near her daughter, who had been seized with typhus fever. The princess only arrived in time to receive the child's last sigh, as she died on Saturday in her mother's arms• Millie. Livry was able to leave her bed two days beck for the first time slaw the terrible accident which endangered her life. At Vienna, in Carnival time, a kind of masked ball is held at which gentlemen, and they only in mask, are admitted. The " tomfoolery" this year took everywhere a political character. The new Stamp Aet, Pravda as leader of Germany, Germany divided into large and small, Greece seeking a king. Lord Palmenton as a hawker selling kings, United Italy with her " bripati," Austria as a great power represented by a gentleman wearing a pair of Hungarian inerpreeeiblea, top-boots with spurs, au elegant German dress-coat, and the much-repudiated "cylinder bat." The police, the Reicharath, and the press, each in turn was ridi• culed, not to forget Louis Napoleon 111. exchanging ideas for profitable pieces of lead. THE PROSECUTION OP PROFESSOR JOWETT. The case cof "The Rev. Drs. Purvey, Heurtley, and Ogilvy v. the Be,. B. Jowett, M.A.," which has ex cited so much local sad general interest, was resumed in the Chancellor's Court at Oxford yesterday, before Mr. Moun tains Bernard. The attendance of members of the unites mity was very numerous, the Rector of Lincoln, the Provost GI Oriel, and the Principal of New Inn Hall being amongst those present. Mr. Dishy I*th:tor appeared for the Wel lents, and Mr. Pottinger for the respondent. Mr. Pottinger stated that on Friday last, when the case was called on, he requested an adjournment till today, promising to appear on behalf of the accused under protest against the jurisdiction of that court. After a brief preliminary discussion Mr. Pottinger handed in a written statement to the effect that he protested that the court bad no jurisdiction in the matter. Mr. Latimer, as a matter of form, handed in a document to the effect that the court had jurisdiction. . . . Mr. Pottinger then said in . the first place be should contend that the court bad no jurisdiction in things merely spiritual ; secondly, that the court wail not furnished with the necessary machinery and forms for such a prosecution ; and, thirdly, that the court had no jurisdiction over a Regius Professor. Mr. Latimer carefully followed Mr. Pottinger through his objections, contending that the university bad jurisdictions over all the members in ease of heresy, admitting that the machinery of this court was not proper for the hearing of cases so important, and regretting extremely that such was the owe. Mr. Pottinger having replied, The Amasser said that be should give his decision on Fri. day next, at two o'clock, and the court then row. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Fa. 20.—Arroninuarr9.—Lieu tem, H. G. Andes. to the Vigileat. Militant-Pay W. S. Whittaker, to the Colossus. Acting flecood-Car Assistant Bonham W. J. Smoke, to the Aare, for smoke in the Frederick William. Mama J. E. T. Nicholls. and F. L. Lawrence have bees nominated to naval ovisishi pe. WEATHER RICPORT.-(THIS DAY.) BATOIDAY, YilitrAZT IL, 8 LAI. 1 w 8.9. W. &8. W. &W. &S.W. B.S.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. &IL flyt. &Z. &NA B.N. ZA▪ K LICE. N. W• . W.N.W. B.&L Nairn .0644 Aberdeen 30.0742 Leith .11 44 Ardroman 30.14 44 Portrush 0010140 Galway ' .14 47 Yalentia 30.18 , 49 Queenstown. .24'40 Holyhead 30.2346 Liverpool 30.0143 Pembroke 343147 Penzance 30.3442 Jersey Bred DOM 41 L'Orient .3437 Rochefort Plymouth —10.3346 Weymouth IO.M 47 Portsmouth :30.4144 Hew. 90.4036 Loudon i30.30 • Yarmouth 30.3036 Scarborough 30.30 Shields 30.17 40 Heligoland Copenhagen .1 Helder 1 1 tgra =0 ) .... !: SMIDAY. 11011 SAT. 8.8. W. to W.N.W. and BOOELAND. W. is N. sad Is Z., S.N.E., fresh to ssoilissis, midis moderate. W. to N, and N.E., WEAN% dente, with showers. N.E. to &L, eatable, W.ClllweAb. fine. N.N.E. to E.S.K, fresh N.W.Fluscs. Eight &Nto .& to &&E, sod B.W.lwurip. W. 9. W., moderate, tine. As next above. W. W. to ICE., light ra• rtable. B.Y. to 8.W., light, fiat. LN.E. to R.S.E., light to moderate. light to fresh, fine. KleGraZD. As neat above, or earl able. N.W. to N.& and B.IL, Z. MUM E. to 8 sad to W.8.1V., moderate, due. moderate to trete. The young Polish students in the medical and law schools of Paris have sent an address to their French comrades thanking them for the sympathy which they displayed towards Poland by their manifestation last week. They at the same time bid them farewell, being on the point of setting off to fight for the independence of their country. The Levant Herald of the 11th says :—"An inci dent worthy of mention, in the dearth of graver news, oc curred at Dolma.baktchf during the part week. Reif Bey, ex-chamberlain, was sent for, and, by imperial irade, was ordered forthwith to marry one of the palace ladles whom he had never seen or heard of before. Within ten minutes after the order was communicated to him, the spouse—act elezt, but imposed—made her appearance, and, inside an hour, the conjugal knot was tied." THE OOTWLRD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND Are. rasmss MAlM—That Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Pen, Captain Jamieson, sailed from Southamp ton yesterday, at 3 p.m., with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India (except Bomhayh China, Mauritius, Australia, and New Zeeland. The Pert took out 160 paseettgers, and on freight specie value 104,7121. tel. far the following ports, viz.:—Dylan : Gold coin, 2,1001. 10s. ; precious stones, 305/. 17a. Madras: Gold coin, 1,308/. 10s. ; watches, Ace., 1,3321. Calcutta: Bar silver, 30.0001. ; jewelleryate., 2,1621. 10a. Hoag Kong: Dollars, 43,0791. 13e. 4d. ; watches, dm., 1,3561. Shanghai: Bar silver, 8801. ; dollars, 9,0101. ; jewellery, watches, In, 2,3421. 19a. 6d. Melbourne: Jewellery, In.. 1701. Sob. son's Bay : Silver ocen, 4001. ; watches, &c., 2,8891. Sydney: Watches, jewellery, dc., 2,68.51.11,. ltd. • and for Alexan dria, sovereigns, 4,5001. • watches, tee., 1601 . The Pees also took oat • full cargo of ;general merehendies. MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIRTIIaI FOB THE IN iiinita We:cc—Monday —Actuaries, 7, "Interpolation and Adjustment of Numerical Tables," Mr. Woolhonse ; Royal Academy, 8, "Sculpture," Professor Westmaoott ; Archi. tecta, 8 ; Geographical, 86, " Discharge of Water from In terior of Greenland th h Springs below the Ice," Dr. Rink ; "Rupert Lard," Captain Millington. Tuesday— Royal Institution, 3, "Animal Meclumica," Professor Mar. shall ; Engineers, 8, "American Tubular Bridges, "Mr. Maas; " Reconstruction of Dintin and Mottram Viaducts," Mr. Fair. bairn ; Zoological, 9, "New Musk Rat, British Columbia;"" New American Bat," Mr. Somas • " Rearing Saimaa Ar tificially," Mr. Backland ; Wedoskay—Horticultural. Hyacinth Show; Society of Literature, 4j • Society of Arts, 8, "Means for Promoting Supply of oottoo," Mr. Cheatham; Arc haeological Amocistion, Bj, "Ancient Be. main., I. W., Roy. E. Kell ; " Ancient Nielli," Mr. flyer Canting. Thursday—Royal Academy, 8, " Paint imp" Professor Hart; Koval, 8j; Royal Institutioe, "Chemical A ffi nity," Dr. Frankland ; Antiquaries, 81. Fri day—Royal Institution, 8, " Ancient Lake Hahitations Switzerland," Mr. Lubbock. Saturday—Royal Institution. 3, "Language," Professor Mat Muller. ACCIDENT TO Ma. LYALL, M.P.—We are sorry to may that Yr. Lyall, M.P., is still coatined to his room is coosequence of the accident he met with when on hO way to the Brockhatn Home on Saturday. the 14th ins% Although the injuries which the honourable gentlemso austaieed are not of a serious nature, yet it is to be feared that his recovery will be tedious, and that mine time mat elapse before he is able to resume his active habits of business, and take his usual part in public affairs.—Serof Standard. A Fars sr Nica.—A correspondent writing iron Nice on the 17th nave:—" After the usual number of tall*, concerts, and drums, the ',snivel gaieties were brought to* successful close by • most brilliant sod effective trte gives by Mdme. Brougham, wbo, leaving the charming residing* of the venerable peer at Cannes, has, after an aliseem of two sears, again enlivened Nice. The character of the kte was essentially Russian iu the deo' ratio°, no lees than in the company, awl bleier Resin cannot be given ; for there ran IV no Ow lion that the entertainments given by that eaten combining everything that the purest tote and greatest wealth can produce, are always the most successful. I can not attempt a detailed description of the roatumes I s e only meatiest a few of the most Ternsrkable celebrities, sod most striking dresses: —The King of Bavaria, in the unites* of a general officer, attended by General J. Jectze soil Berne Gneissic ; the Duke of Parma ; Penman and her daughter, in rich Greek costumes, acconmsei d by her roe the Prioce, who may very pn'eibly he King of Greece after all the German courts have been tried ad failed ; Priam Stirbev. gorgeous with orders. his Prin" , brilliant with diamonds ; Prince and Pnucees Iteusi.hors ; tritz, orders and jewels ; Baroness Rothschild, a Were et diamonds ; Priuome Manoukbey. in a magnificent Greek dress, and with eyes outshining her brightest jewel ; the beautiful Comatose Pietism°, a wad of gold, and her still more lovely sister, Milk. de Orestis, in ao Eastern dress ; Countess de tee' sole, her daughter, as • Snowstorm ; Miss Stewart. t h e beauty of the evening, and Mies &male, scarcely lees hew tiful, the one a. Night , the other as a Constellatioe ; Noe* Gavini, wife of the Prefect of the Department. as 6 Sorceress, • most successful costume ' • Princess Ma"' chereky, magnificent in white lace and pearls, wo e magnificent in the splendour of her owe per"' ; Marquise de St. Aigoan, as 's alentine, in white 'stun. gor poem with jewels ; most successful of all was the Praire+ Doubeilt, as Flora. The most remarkable among the men were the Duke of Hamilton • Princes Galitzin, Alexaeder Stirbey, Watt. Devlet. Dona. Simonetti ; Baron de Ste. Marie; Count de Berddingen ; Mr. Balfour, Mr. Premott , and M. Keechke. Dancing was kept up with untined spirit till four in the morning."