The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-04 00:00:00

gun-shot of Temple-bar, ought to stand in the waT ' of this greater right and convenience. When bilis like the one which empowered the fortnelien the Underground Railway were brought befaretbo Rouse of Commons for its sanction, every personal and private objection was overruled for the sake of the general public. When the railway was being constructed, during a painful and never-to-be-forgotten period of three years, its legalised nuisances were tolerated for the sake of the public benefit. When several lunatics and a 'cure bankrupts were made, and a vast amount of house property was undermined and depreciated, all these injuries were tolerated for the sake of the public benefit. In the face of this and similar undei ;.skings, where nothing has been allowed to interfere with a work which is thought to be for the public good, we should like to know why any hesi tation should be shown in dealing with our London barriers. Powers, of course, must be got from Parliament, and the vigorous opposition of many landowners and property champions will probably have to be encountered ; but if compensation were freely and liberally offered, much of this opposition would either be withdrawn, or deprived of its strength by the force of public opinion. This question, like the abolition of tolls question, must not be looked at in a penny-wise manner. As a general metropo litan tax will be the only equitable financial sub stitute for tolls to pay for the maintenance of the public highways, so a similar tax ought to furnish the funds for this purchase of thoroughfares. Ws task is an important part of that greater work which is necessary for the improvement of London, and if undertaken in an earnest spirit it will not be merely tilting at windmills. 81111111111111112 IN PUN THIS WEEK, One Penny, W. S. Lindsay. If . P. Yra. Grandy's Gossiping,. The Bear and !tainted Pole. Metropolitan Melodies. Alnlasiack and Diary. 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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY L Tun proposed abolition of all toll-gates within five miles of London draws our attention to a defect in our means of internal communication which seems to us to require a speedy remedy. The railway undertakings which have been carried out almost remorselessly within the last five or six years, the Bills for new sub-ways and iron high ways that are now before Parliament, remove any delicacy which we might ever have felt about speaking out on this subject We not only want to see every toll-gate swept away which now stands within five miles of London, or even in a far broader area, but we should like to welcome a bold, well-considered measure that would do away with every private barrier. Whether the obstruo tion be a donated iron-gate in charge of a liveried porter, which attempts to filter the traffic to and from a particular square ; whether it is a row of unsightly posts, like uneven teeth, which dam out a few costermongers' barrows in a back street of the suburbs ; whether it is a forlorn " half " penny hatch" which rota in pernicious idleness in the middle of some withered high way, or a swinging-gate which is a popular play thing for the children of a crowded neighbourhood —no matter what shape it takes, or to whom it belongs, we wish to see it rooted out as speedily as possible. We have no more against the Duke of BID►oID or the Marquis of Worrariterxx in this matter than we have spinet some unknown Mr. Joa=n or JINKINEI who may be the holder of a London cloister. We kno w the value of peace and quietness as fully as the hero of a cer tain well-known farce ; we know how charming and snug it is to live in a settlement, wbich is as much like the cathedral square of a remote city as bolts and bars can make it, although pitched in the very heart of the metropolis. We are not blind to the selfish advantages which may thus be en joyed by a select few to the manifest inconvenience of the vulgar many. We have long felt, however, that a city is not made for one man, or one body of men, but for everybody whose lot may be cast in it In much of our recent legislation this truth has been half recognised, but only in that petty way which shows either ignorance or timidity. No one has been bold enough to propose the removal of these numerous barriers on the ground that the owners were maintaining them in defiance of allgood citizenship and public morals. Attempts have been made, from tune to time, to get rid of one or two • of these obstructive gates, but nothing like a ge neral movement with fixed principles has been or ganized. We have a recollection of something like a parochial riot about the barrier at the end of Devonshire-place, but the local Rebmann were defeated by the strong arm of poessesion. Other points have been attacked in these London barri cades, but by troops who had neither leaders, force, nor sustaining power. It will not be necessary, in order to prove that we are not fighting with shadows, to give a detailed list of London streets which are kept under lock and key by their private owners. Every Vestry— every district Board of Works within the metropo litan limits can furnish a long catalogue of these obstructions. A locked-up meadow, or a private road, may be tolerated at the aide of a country highway, or even in a country village, but certainly not in the midst of three millions of busy people. It wants no quotations from great authorities, the acknowledged sources of political wisdom, to prove that the rights of property will not mo rally sustain such an occupancy. If we object to the stand-and-deliver system of collecting public tolls, how much more strongly must we object to a 1 power which shut' a public door in our face, and will only open it in accordance with its own pecu liar fanciest The uncertainty as to the hours when these barriers may be open or may be closed, is a fruitful source of annoyance to Londoners and their visitors. If the owners closed them alto gether they could hardly injure the public more than they do by admitting a few vehicles and pedestrians at very uncertain specified periods. This baronial mode of dealing with large trade of metropolitan ground that ought, by their posi tion, to be thoroughfares, may seem very grand I and feudal to many people, who affect to worship the barbarous and the medUevaL We respect the rights of property fully as much as these adorers of the past, but we ass a right of property which I they are probably blind to. This right is the ancient right of way—the power to command the nee at all seasons and at all hours of anything him a road or pathway from one part of the City to another. Nothing in the shape of landed proprietorship, private convenience, or the desire to preserve unnatural solitudes within a THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY gbt Court. OSBORNE, FEB. 3. The Queen held • council to-day at Osborne, at which were present Earl Granville, Lard President, Viscount Palinerstsn, Sir Charles Wood, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell. The Archbishop of York was presented to the Queen at an audience, and did homage on his appointment. The Rev. Dr. Stanley was Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. The Archbishop of York, and Sir Andrew Buchanan, her Majesty's Ambassador to Berlin, were by command of the Queen sworn in members of the Privy Council. Her Majesty pricked the list of sheriffs for the counties of England and Wales for the present year. The Royal Speech. to be delivered by her Majesty's Corn meekest' on opening the session of parliament, was sub mitted and approved of. Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, attended. Earl Granville and Viscount Palmerston had audiences of the Qualm. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council mat yeater. day. An appeal from Madras, " Ramaaawm7 Jyan awl othen c. Veocato Achari and °then," part heard, was re sumed. The lords present were the Lords Judines Haight Braes sad Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir L. Peal, and Sir J. Despatcher were received yesterday at the Colonial-odic. front the Lord High Corannesioner of the lonian Islands sad from the Governors of the North American provinces. Daimatchrs were seat to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Nylon, Hong /Low, Laborer, and to the Lord EDO Cont. mireloner of the lonian Lisa& THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. The Prince and Princess of Wales will spend the first fortnight of their honeymoon at Osborne. The Mayon of Southampton is availing a decision as to the route of their Royal Highneene tram Windsor to Osborne, sod if, as a probable, it should be through Southampton, prepara tions will be immediately made in that town for giving the royal pair a loyal sad magufficeat reception. Committees have been appointed to draw up &programme of festivities at Portsmouth, Sheffield, Birmingham, Reed ing, and other places. Illuminations are to take place at Yarmouth, Onford, Re. The marriage of the Prince of Wales will be celebrated at Eton by a fat sheep roasted whole in "The Bross" (the gift of Mr. Thomu Hughes, of Eke), and 200 children, be tween the ages of eight and twelve years, will be regaled in a tent on the pound. MEETING or Vouarrria Omen's. —Yesteniay &Samoa a meals( of metropolitan commanding officers at volunteers was held at the Volunteer Service Club, St, Janies's•treet, for the purpose of considering the most ▪ gronad for the Volunteer Review to take place oa &AR Monday, and es to the propriety of making a demon' ideation on the part of the volunteer. on the amnion of the approaching merziege of the Primes of Wales and the hinnies Alexandra. Lord Elsa" ILP., occupied the chair, and there were pmest Lord Truro, Viscount Bury, Lard G weld Pitageralil, LordColville„ Lord Badeteedr, Liettlenaat- Colonel Sir Jobe Shelley, IL P., Liantesmat-Colosial Lindsay, St. George's Rifles ; Liestement-Cokwel Whitehead, North Middlesex ; Lieuteaant•Coionel lirlood of M'Leod, Ist Middlesex Engineers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson, find Middlesex Administrative Battalion; and about twenty other metropolitan volunteer commanding officers. A lose end animated diacussiosi ensued, in the course of which were accused the respective merits of, and facilities afforded for, • grand display by ground at Lewes, where Sir John Shelley stared there was mom for moving 40,000, Remo, Aldershot*, B•odharst, and Brighton, on Pater Monday, when It was moved and seconded, to appoint • committee to inquire and report to a special meeting of commanding officers, to be mu: crooned for the 18th instant, as to the respective facilities of the piss mentioned for the Easter Monday review. An anieseiment was moved, that Brighton be at once recommended es the best ground ; and after some further dicumies the amenedmset was togs- Seed, sad the resolution carried by a majority of five, and • acearnittee to report appointed. The subject of the ap proaching royal marriage was then taken iota eassideration, end • strong desire was expressed that the sestropolitan volunteers should be permitted to line the sires% on the occasion of the Princess Alexandra page. through London, in brigades or otherwise, to be arranged by the War-office. A resolution was ultimately adopted mesiseendy, that the commanding officers of metropolitan seeps should apply for permission to make • demeselsellies is bones: of the Pence's Ale rendes on her pig linegilandos previous to the wedding, sad that Lord NM^ lied Bury, and Colonel Lindsay be requested to 011smakete with the authorities, and report to the adjsemusell meeting of mem mending oaken as to the peeper IMMO for carrying the resolution into effect. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has mired at Claridges Hotel from Ma!grave Cattail, York. shim The Marquis Townshend has taken the Earl of Ostisaham's random is Perit•lane for a term of years. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and family arrived in towa yodels/ay from Brostilaads, Hants. Ber ladyship boa quit* recovered from her recent Wisp*. maims. Viscount Canterbury has arrived in town from Main the Emi of Coventry, at Croome Court, Deer 170 m. Viscount and Vinoonotess Sidmouth returned to town on Monday, from the Pavilion Hotel. Folkestone. Viscount and Viscountess Hohneedale are ex pected in town to•morrow frees their mat in Heat. His lordship has taken a hounds Berimleyegnare for a tent el yews. Viscount Hill has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, poilorlopmaare. from Eiswksdooo, Shreinbury. Lord and Lady Rendleeham have arrived at the Clersadce Hotel from Eglistma Oastle. The Right Ron. Sir William Joni& left England as flotarday for a temporary mance in the south of Frees. The Bishop of Exeter arid Mrs. Phillpotts ar rived in town yeeterday fres the Mace, &stir. His lordship has takes a reeidonee in Park street, Grervesoi , menage, for the MOM. Lady Elinor Cavendish was safely delivered of a we Cal NIPMay at Woodkaths. agar &Oho& LATEST INTELLIGENCE. -.-.,-_ INDIA. Bombiy journal of the 13th ult, hav e th e fol lowing items of news : • The Governor•Generil is in Calcutta. His Excellency Sir Bartle From and Lady Frere are in Bombay, the former actively pushing on the public works of the presidency and the work of legislation. The Commander-in-Chief of India reached Sensor on the 23rd December; and Jubbulpore on the 3rd idem. The Commander-in• Chief of Bombay arrived in Ahme dabad on the 22nd December, and was to reach Deem on the 2nd January. He is going on to Rajpootana and Mhow. A gross outrage has been perpetrated on two British officers of artillery by Sindia's retainers. The two officers went to see the fort of Jbansi, and they were seised by Bindle's men, pinioned, and marched into cantonments as prisoners. The appointment of Sir C. Trevelyan as Minister of Finance baa given universal satiafactioe. A great Trevelyan meeting was held in Madras on the nnd December. Au experiment has been made of sending the Madras portion of the English mail from Bombay via Beypore and the Madras Railway. The result is that the whole of the heaviest overland mail can be sent at once by steamer and railway to Madras in three days lees time than the very limited weight which can go by express can be sent by the old route. Dr. David Orierson, Deputy Inspector-General of Hos pitals, Poona division, Bombay army, died in Poona on the 6th January, of aneurism of the heart. According to the Delhi Gazettes Cabul correspondence, Dont Mahomed has a fair chance of taking Herat, which he has invested on every side, having planted his batteries opposite to the tire gates of the city, to as entirely to com mand them. The besieged are represented as being "very much in want of everything, and cannot come out of the oily without being taken prisoners, or deserting to the Ameer's camp." The oourt•martihl at Makatea on Lieutenant L. D. A. Jackson. Royal Engineers, who is accused of having flogged his servant to death, closed its proceedings on the 23rd December. The finding and sentence are not yet known. Mr. Maine has moved for leave in the Supreme Council to introduce a bill (or conferring upon the high courts of judicature in India the jurisdiction and powers vested in the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England. The Secretary of State had requested the Governor-General to introduce a measure conferring a jurisdiction on the high courts in Calcutta similar to that exercised by the Divorce Court in London. The East India Railway is now open from Calcutta to Beearea, a distance of five hundred and forty miles. At the last Khundoba's festival in Negpore, hook-swing ing, till now so common, was forbidden. This prohibition will doubtless extend to the whole province. Four hundred and sixteen men of bar Majesty's 92nd Gordon Highlanders recently volunteered for prolonged service in this country on the regiment being ordered home. This speaks well for the popularity of soldiering in The Btnk of Bombay has declared a dividend of rupees My-five per share, being at the rate of eleven per cent. per annum, clear of income-tax, for the half•year *Wing 31st December, 1862. A very large increase in cotton cultivation took place during the past year, but the crops have sustained serious injury in some places by the want of rain in the early part of the season, and in other places by the storms in October. The Calcutta Englishman of the 4th ult. says : " We are glad indeed to state that travellers down country by the Grand Trunk Road from the north west provinces to Calcutta, and who have arrived within the last few days, state that the road is, as they express it, ' actually swarming with cotton.' Not only, it appears, are long trains of carts laden with cotton to be met with at short intervals along the road, but in the villages, and at the Serais and other halting places, enormous quantities of cotton are collected, en route to Calcutta for exportation. This is cheer ing intelligence indeed, and gives more solid pro mise of real relief to the unfortunate operatives of Lancashire than could pecuniary subscriptions of the most liberal dimensions. It is to be hoped, however, that the latter description of aid will not ,abate until a full supply of cotton shall have ren dered such benevolent action no longer necessary." The Calcutta Englishman states that a Con federate privateer is cruising in the Bay of Bengal, and that the commander stated to the captain of the British ship Selim, which be brought to, that he would catch and burn to the watar's edge every vessel leaving Calcutta under the Federal flag. A CHINA WAR. The Calcutta Englishman observes of the war in China : We are now getting very well indeed into the growing Chinese imbroglio ; further in, indeed, it strikes us, than we shall ever be able to back out without discomfort. We mentioned some months ago, that a large supply of muskets, with appropriate ammunition, had been sent horn the arsenal in Fort William to China, to um the Chinese native force acting against the Tapes( rebels ; sod • few days ago we anoounoed that the 22nd Punjab Infantry, when embarking at Shanghai to return to India, had made over their arms, he., to the same embryo Chime sepoy army. We may now further men tion that an additional rupply of small Arm ammunition, 150,000 roue& of ban cartridge, is about to be sent from Feet William by an early opportunity to Hong-Korig, and theses on to the north of China, and so into the bodies lel the troublesome Taipings who may stand in their way. This looks like going into the Chinese business with spirit, credit is to be hoped that we may equally get out of it with honour and advantage. Still it must be obvious to oversew who cares to contemplate ,the matter, that what with the imperial government and army, r oar own meal and mibtary forces, Captain Sheeted Osberne's squadron, Colonel Burgevine's Chinese centingeat, our own Chinese sepoy regiments, and the Taiping', not to mention the pirates and other such pleasing memories, we have managed to get into about as pretty a pakre in the 'flowery land' as it is well possible to conceive; and one, the probable ending of which no one can with any plansi. hility pretend correctly to foresee. It may, however, be observed, from the magnitude which hostile operations io Moe are loonniog. that perhaps it would be as well to make the cartridges up to the even million for despatch in that direction, mid even to keep • further reserve reedy in rim of necessity, which it is sot unlikely will before long occur. The history of the steps by which we are gradually drawn into this Chines* complication will he a piece of curious reading hereafter. At present no one WTIs to know who is primarily responsible. THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. It appears that the most numerous and best or ganised bands, and Buse which give the Rus sian troops most trouble, are in the vicinity of the town of Wouchotsk. They amount to about 3,000 persons, and are described as resolute and well armed. This force has been furnished by the inhabitants of the two towns of Schildolowice and Bodsentyn, and by the workmen of the numerous mines which exist in the country. It is com manded by an officer of artillery, M. Lan giewitch. Another band, equally well organised and armed, is on the Vistula, in the neighbourhood of the town of Casimir. It consists of about 2,000 men. Besides these there are 20 other bands, less numerous, but composed of energetic men, resolved to risk everything, in the direction of Ostrolenka and De Brsealitewski, and in the mountains of St. Croix. These bands are en camped in the forests, ready to offer a desperate resistance to any attack. The Russian troops are at present concentrated in the largest towns, and watch the great roads of communica tion. It is alleged that a considerable corps of insurgents of the government of Augustow has passed the frontier of the empire and penetrated into Lithuania, where it is swollen by all the re fractory spirits of the country. If this movement EVEN should extend to the provinces of Lithuania, Podo lia, sod Volhynia, the state of affairs will be serious. The citadel of Warsaw is said to contain 14,000 prisoners taken in open insurrection. • NICTIC6 . B TrisciaAML) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Jam. 24. The Washington correspondent of the .New York Tribune gives the following report of General Burnside's plan. Of course it will be useless now, if the enemy is in strong force : The plan of General Burnside is now apparent. Threaten ing the enemy by military roads leading to the Itsppahs n nook along a line of more than 30 miles he has compelled him to extend and scatter hit forces. Then ascertaining the weasel point he bee rapidly'and secretly concentrated his army, reserving only enough to make a feint in another direction and MOW the enemy to continue scattered and unsettled as to where the blow may fall. Thus by threatening many points the enemy are to be rendered if possible unable todistinguish between the feint and the point where ac attack is actually intended. If the plan is successful, and we are able now to cross the atmy which we have sasembled at this point, we shall drive the forte that is before, and capture by a flank movement the fortifications of the enemy at Fredericksburg. The enemy are to-night known to be down the river expecting a crossing below the city. Not 10,000 men are opposite to us. The Washington correspondent of the New York Express writes: There u a kindness of feeling towards General Burnside, but "circumstances" are such that be cannot long oontinue in command. He has not, in short, either the confidence of his high *Moen, or of his men, nor even of the adminis tration. The latter will dispose of him as soon as they can conveniently, and it is whispered about that General Joe Hooker will be put in his place. Another Washington despatch, published by the Tribune, Rays it may be positively stated that Gene ral Butler will resume command of the department of the Gulf. His head-quarters will at first be at New Orleans, and soon at a higher point on the Mississippi. This determination in regard to him was arrived at immediately after his departure from Washington for the North. Count Mercier to-day repeated anew his assur ances of the friendly regards of the Emperor Napo leon, and aaid he wished to have it announced that the intentions of France in her proposal of media tion, and iu her expedition to Mexico, are in con sonance with the most friendly feelings to the American Union and American interests ; that, in regard to Mexico particularly, the Emperor had no purpose to interfere with American rights or the rights of nations, but only to maintain the honour of France. General Butler has telegraphed here (Washing ton) an explicit denial of the statement that he attempted to control the congressional interest of M. Bonligny. Heed-quarten, Army of the Potomac, Jan. 23. . _ . The tempestuous weather since Tuesday last, and the consequent impassable state of the roads, have rendered any advance of the Army of the Potomac beyond the Rappahannock a matter of utter im possibility. The same causes so delayed the transportation of the pontoons and heavy artillery to the desig nated points as to prevent a surprise of the enemy at the points designed to cross. This afternoon the clouds broke away, and the influence of the sun is telling favourably upon the soil. Several paymasters have already arrived, bring ing joy to the soldiers, and relief for their families at home. A delay in the payment of those actively employed may occur. THE BRAZILIAN AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SERIOUS COLLISION WITH THE BRITISH LEGATION. SOUTHAMPTON, WZDNIADAY. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magdalena, Captain Woolward, with the above mails, has arrived. Sbe brings 85 passengers, 6,7441. in specie, and 795 packages of general cargo. She experienced fine weather throughout the passage, with occasional N. E. winds and head seas. The difficulty at Rio between Mr. Christie, the British Minister, and the Brazilian government, arising from the refusal of the latter to admit cer- It/An claims which he had made, had up to the sail ing of the Magdalena been to a certain extent arranged. Tranquillity had been restored, and a special messenger from the Brazilian government has arrived by the Magdalena with despatches for the Brazilian Minister in London, who it is said will treat with her Majesty's government and make every reasonable concession. Her Majesty's . shipping were at Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco, to prevent any injuries being committed either on British property or British subjects. RIO DE JANEIRO, J AX. 8. (per Magdalena) The following are the details of the collision which has occurred here between the Brazilian government and the British Legation. It appears that in June, 1881, the British ship Prince of Wales was wrecked on the coast of Albar dao, to the south of the port of Rio Grande. A portion of her cargo, which bad been brought ashore, was pillaged. This outrage was the first cause of complaint. The second was comprised in the fact that two officers and the chaplain of her Britannic Majesty's frigate Forte, who had gone ashore out of uniform, were ill-treated by a sentinel, and con fined for forty-eight hours first in the guard house, afterwards at the central police station. Upon the sth of December Mr. Christie sent In an ultimatum requiring the Brazilian government to pay an indemnity for the cargo and freight of the Prince of Wales, and a further indemnity to the relatives of those of the crew whose bodies were stated to have been plundered. Mr. Christie also demanded that the Brazilian officer who had ar rested the English officers should be cashiered that the sentinel should be punished ; that satis faction should be given for the insult to the British navy, and that the chief of the police and a subal tern should be publicly reprimanded. The Foreign Minister of the Brazils replied that the Imperial government could not accept any re sponsibility in the matter of the Prince of Wales, and protested against it energetically and catego rically. The government refused to pay any in demnity, adding, however, that if compelled by force, it should pay whatever was required, under protest against the violence used. With regard to the question of the officers of the Forte, the I minister said that the Brazilian authorities had done their duty, and that there was no ground for giving the required satisfaction. In consequence of this reply Mr. Christie signi fied to the government that Admiral Warren would proceed to reprisals upon Brazilian property, which would be retained as guarantee until the satisfaction demanded was obtained. At night on the 30th January the English war steamers Stromboli and Curlew quitted the Bay of Rio. The preceding evening the telegraph had signalled the capture of a Brazilian vessel outside the bar by an English steamer. Popular indigna tion at this intelligence ran very high, and large numbers of excited but inoffensive groups collected iu the streets. On the sth it transpired I that the Stromboli had re-entered the Bay during the pert night, bring news of the capture of five vessels, ova being a steamer, their entire cargoes being- rained at 30,0001. sterling. The irritation of the populace now became extreme. Meetings were organised in the open street, the speakers imploring the people to make no reprisals upon English property, and to refrain from molesting English residents, but at the same time to encourage the government to resist. Public opinion, both among natives and foreigners, was strongly opposed to the proceedings of the English minister. It was pointed out that none of the circumstances relating to the Prince of Wales had been proved, and that it was impossible to demand in good faith the freight of a ship wrecked vesseL In reference to the affair of the officers of the Forte, people remarked that the heat of the day when the arrest took place, coupled with the time—immediately after dinner—and above all, the well-known habits of one of the officers, perfectly accounted for what had pained. The excitement of the people reached so great • pitch, that upon the Emperor returning from his summer residence to the capital, his carriage was surrounded, and he was forced to make a speech to the multitude, inviting them to have confi dence in the members of the government. Lists of volunteers were opened, and immediately filled ; deputations were formed to congratulate the Ministry upon its attitude, and enoourage it not to recede ; a patriotic subscription was commenced, and liberally responded to by the citizens, some giving 5001., others 1,000/. ; the shareholders of the bank demanded that a reso lution should be passed not to discount the paper of English houses, and proclamations were issued inviting the people to abstain henceforth from every description of English goods. There can be little doubt that in the prevalent excitement acts of violence would have been committed, if the 6th had passed without a solution of the difficulty. In the course of that day, how ever, the Brazilian Government by advice of the Council of State, determined to accept the new propositions of Mr. Christie, according to which the following arrangement was concluded : The prizes are to be restored. The Brazilian minister in London, if so required by the British go vernment, will pay under protest whatever sum may be demanded for the owner of the Prince of Wales. With respect to the treatment sustained by the officers of the Forte, it shall be submitted to the arbitration of the King of the Belgians to decide whether or not such treatment can be regarded as an outrage upon the honour of the British navy. ING, FEBEU.AIIY 4, 1863. COMMERCIAL IN"I'ELLIGENCE. There was but little buttress doing at Rio de Janeiro, ow scoount of the political excitement. The end of he year had also been without influence on the market. Exchange ruled at 27d. to 270., 90 days. Freights nominal. Stock of coffee about 90,000 bags. Prices of good firsts, 7 dole. to 7200 dollars. The receipts of sugar had come forward more freely at Pernambuco. Prices of white descriptions bad advanced 100 nes par snobs. Exchange—About 90,0004 negotiated for London, chiefly ►t 28d. Discount 10 per cent. At Bahi► coffee supplies bad come forward sparingly, and but little had changed hands at 6300 dole, per arroba• Trade generally dull. Exchange, 271 to 28. Money at Buenos Ayres was abundant, and interest on. reasonably low. Exchange transactions for the Magdalen► were considerable. The amount drawn on England is estimated at 120,0001. steriing, principally at 665. The price of gold wu 396 per oz. The produce market was dull, and transactions limited. The export. of wool and Saladera produce were expected to be heavy. Freight. were consequently advancing. SPAIN. THE SPANISH CONGRESS. MADRID, F. 3. To-day, in the Congress, Senor Valera brought forward a proposal for the recognition of the King dom of Italy. The Minister for Foreign Affairs replied that he could do nothing in the matter at present, as the Italian question was inseparable from that of Rome. The rumour that Senor Salaverria and General Serrano contemplate tendering their resignations is unfounded. It is considered in official quarters that the re signation of General Prim has strengthened the cabinet. MADRID, FEL 3, EVENING. The following is a more detailed summary of Marshal Serrano's reply to the proposal of Senor Valera., for the recognition of the Kingdom of Italy by Spain. The minister said :—" Nearly all the nations which have recognised Italy are protestant. The recognition of Italy by Spain would be inseparable from any event which might be accomplished at Rome. The presence of the plenipotentiary of Francis IL in Madrid is due to purely personal considerations." The minister did not consider the accomplishment of Italian unity was an easy matter, and he doubted whether the catholic mind of the Spanish people would approve the ideas of Senor Valera. He recalled the fact that Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, delayed for eight years to recognise Queen Isabella, and said it was possible that Spain might follow the same lino of conduct towards his descendant. In conclusion, he denied that Spain followed the inspirations of France on the subject of Italy. Senor Valera withdrew his proposition. The government is taking measures for the pro• tection of the Spanish possessions in Guinea. The vomito has disappeared from the Canaries. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. WA Bost) CALCUTTA, Jsm. 16. Shirting quiet. Copper unchanged. Exchange on London, 2.0 g. Government securities, Five per Cents., 1051. Freights firm and active. BOMBAY, JAK.IS. Cotton unchanged. Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Government Securities, 112. Freights advancing. CANTON, JAN. 1. Shirting% dull. Total export of tea to date, 81,625,000 lbs. Exchange on London, 4s. 9d. SHANGHAI, Dsc. 24. Tea lower. Silk advanced 10 tads. Export to date, 58,240 bales. Exchange on London, 6.2 g. Freights; unaltered. MELBOURNE. tow. 24. The shipments of gold since the departure of the last mail amount to 24,125 or.s. Trade is dull. Exchange unaltered. _ _ _ MARSEILLES, Frs. 3. The Messageries Impetiales steamer Labourdon nais, with mails from India and China, and 600 bales of silk, arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day. The Cambodge reached Saigon on the 29th of December. Three thousand five hundred French soldiers prams, to the =meet whim the heed fells. The bead me leaving Cherbourg for Mexico ; MOO aw embarlciag at and as bar of the Perm izscubed will be placed, is Few' Alfieri for the Name destiesliam, besides SOO •rmbs for the •saes of the wiles••••, is a sal° pssFsred basssaiss4 sod teems soles. Arab have Use hot* up iu ell prayers by the priest will close the proceediap. directions tor the purdahs of moles ;it appears that sot The latest dates from Vancouver's Island are to less ebbs 15,000 el these Redd animals are required, December 7. tbmall•pox t. committing ravages among Borne diaappoiotmeat is tell at the little pewees yet made the lodises is British Columbia. 17,000 pack animals have by General Forey. i died at Cariboo; the mow being ever a foot deep. After Mel Jul this a *dent daily crown seeds. far re Kr. Vg Thi Manor malt Mr. for th , ai llre l ham. in the The evida Mr. is the raspoi whoa S " epn times she hi weer Da Dr. k 0 064 not f for hi six eh intim with 1 intim prised mewl pressi Dec Dr. at • groan wa• n found with bad, I living EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom 001 OWN PARIS, TIMIDLY EVISTNG. The rare case of an electoral victory against & government candidate has just occurred in the Va t , M. Buchet, the ex-deputy, has been elected to tin Council-General, by 1,953 votes against 1,30(1, given to the prefect's man, M. Dupoy de Lome. The Opinion Nationale has learned that the reason why Admiral Jurien de Graviere comes borne from Mexico is that immediately after the death of his flag officer, Capt. Russel, he was himself taken so ill as to be utterly incapable of continuing in his command. Rear-Admiral Bosse, who has been appointed to succeed him, leaves Paris to-morrow to embark at Cherbourg. A Cherbourg letter of the 2nd says :—" The re. inforcementa destined for the Mexican expedi tionary army arrived here yesterday and this morn ing ; they consist of 3,651 men, 484 horses or mules, and 8 carriages, composed of two battalions of the 7th regiment of the line, containing together 1,074 men, and commanded by Colonel de Mausaioo, and 2,577 men to fill up the vacancies in the dif ferent regiments already engaged in the expedition. Mgr. Barbou, Bishop of Cahors, has just died at the age of 65 years. He had occupied that see since 1842. Two other bishops are reported to be alarmingly iIL M. de Germiny, the governor of the Bank of France, has been for some days in a dangerous state. His death was reported this morning, but untruly, and by the last accounts he is somewhat better. It is probable that the long talked-of nnivernai dgg show, which was to have taken place at the Jardin de Acclimatation in June, will he postponed, the committee fearing that two shows announced in England would interfere with it at that time. Marshal Canrobert has published the following order of the day relative to the subscriptions opened in favour of the unemployed cotton operatives: With regard to the subscriptions now making for the be. petit of the unemployed operative, in the cotton neasuhc• lure, the Marshal of France commanding the 4th Corps d'Armee has no doubt of the readiness with which the soldiers under his command will contribute their part for the relief of these undeserved misfortunes, but he mast call attention to the principles of the ministerial instructions, especially those of the circular of May 25, 1845. Everyone must remain free. The subeeriptions must be voluntary, be purely individual, and have nothing of a collective chaise. ter ; this, the sums contributed moat not be paid in by the treasurers of the different corps, but delivered by the subscribers themselves to the pompom appointed to receive them. There was considerable fluctuation at the Bourse to-day, the Reute having oscillated between the extreme points of 70fr. 40c. and 70fr. M. It closed at the latter quotation, being 20c. higher than yes terday. The market for all other securities was weak at the close. The Daily News is seized. sourassur DPEPATCHES. One portion of the above despatches exhibits the Southern States in collision with the French empire, by reason of an attempt of France to detach Texan from the Confederacy, and establish it as an independent republic, under the protection of the Emperor. Mr, Benjamin—the Confederate Secretary of State—accuses the French government of attempting to feel its way to a disruption of the Confederacy by inducing Texas to make a new secession. The reasons which, in the opinion of the Confederate government, cause the Emperor to act thus are the desire to interpose a weak state between the Confederacy and the French colony at Mexico, sod his determination to obtain an independent source of cotton supply, like that which England pos. muss in India. Texas, when acknowledged as an intl.. peodent republic, would, in effect, be as dependent on France, and as subservient to French interest., as a French colony. Mr. Benjamin tells Mr. Slidell that he may make use of this discovery to excite the jealousy of the British government, and thus hasten recognition. The independence of the South, and the possession by the Coo. federacy of sufficient strength to hold the United States in check one side, and to prevent the French from creating a too powerful dominion on the other, must, the Confederate Secretary of State thinks, be advantageous to England, and it is only requisite that she should know that there has been "a secret attempt on the part of Franco to obtain separate advantages of suck vast magnitude." and a "change in the views of the British cabinet" would be induced. Such were the antici• petiole of the angry secretary four months ago, and is acocedance with them the consuls were actually dismissed. Next to the Emperor of the French, the most conspicuous place in these despatches is occupied by Mr. Spence, of Li• verpool, the "S. of the Time,. A oorrespondenee Wing to these despatches has passed between Mr. Patter. son and Mr. Spume. Mr. Patterson lately described Mr. Sputa as the " advocate" of the South, and the South as the "client" of Mr. Somme, a descriptice of which Mr. Spence indignantly denied the appli. cability. Armed with the information contained in these despatches. Mr. Patterson returns to the charge, desiring to know whether Mr. Spence still denies that he is, in a professional sense, of course, the " advocate " of the South. The facts are these : The Confederate go vernment wanted a commercial agent in this corm. try, and they fixed upon Mr. Spence. Mr. Mason had recommended him for this appointment, but Mr. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, informs Mr. Mason that, previous to the receipt of his " last despatches," Mr. Speecs had been charged with the business of the Confederate government is this country. Mr. Spence's chief business is to dispose of cotton certificates, by which cotton is sold to parties in England at a certain price, to be delivered on the first op portunity, the purchase mosey, in the meantime, being available for the uses of the Confederate government. In the letter from the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury to Mr. Spum e two millions sad a quarter of dollars are mentioned as lying in Richmond for the payment of purchases made in Eleland. The question is bow to get this coin to England , nd the secretary thinks that by a slight piece of legerdemain, the English government would authorise itewar vessels to ship this coin. Mr. Spence tells us in his explanation that his connexion with the Con- federate government is " a purely bateiness affair," and that he holds the same views now that be did a year and • half ago. The health of the Empress of Austria improves daily, and her Majesty is go much stronger than she was that she can bear • great deal of exertion. She frequently rides for • couple of hours in the Prater, and, on the Mb ult., she remained standing at • hal-ball (court toll) for more than an hour and • half, to receive the congratolations of the diplomatic corps. I I hem Ans, impLah o re . sir nt H m nary co erbat issio Edwwo. nfe presiding. eee bag A painful discussion has broken out between the European mission. lAMB and their native ooadjutces. " The matter" (says the BonbaseGazette) " has been long smouldering in India, and In spite of the scandal it will occasion, it is well, perhaps, that it should be brought fairly iato the light of day and argued out." It appears that there has been a very extensive Foes of private property by the wreck of the screw steamer Jason on the Madras coast. Amongst others, Lady Elgin has been • heavy loser, all her ladyship's per. monad effects, with the exception of the baggage requisite for • era voyage, having perished in the wreck. The Minister of Justice in Bavaria has published an ordeonanoe in virtue of which executions in Bavaria will henceforth be made in places closed to the public. The mayor of the commune where as execution is to take place will convoke as witnesses 24 persons selected from among the municipal councillors and the principal citizens of the commune. At the seat of each court of assizes there will be a guillotine and • large bell which will toll from the time when the print shall have terminated the