The Express. — London, England, 1863-05-18 00:00:00

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LTCHUIL Tone ZTEMIG. A BIIDD&N ATTACL Mama Shore and Widdleoch Mtn Hounds sad Yea Lee.—And THEBayruoua DUKE'S BLOTTO. Werra Fearer, Shore, Brougham and Rheas C. Loam% IL Terry, sad Ilaworshy. lIBITANNLL Tun amnia. lux WIDOW AND OHMIC:M.—FAITH, NOM AND CHARITY, with Professor Pepper s r.dAptatloo of Yr. Arelufs IiPICTILAL LLLDBION.—And AURORA FLOYD. MEM WATT& AT LONDOS BILDOB. ow DAT —Monde& tda....Afterooos. Oa taisoiulow—liceslag. Vs. 67......At1ie5ak is 15a. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 18. THE news from the army of General Hoomia is not only interesting, but important. Contrary to some loud predictions made in this country, the North has once more conclusively shown that it is determined to persevere in its enter. prise ; and it is clear that notwithstanding any number of partial reverses, the Northern armies are still ready to fight with a gallantry and perseverance equal to that of any people who ever accepted the arbitrament of the sword. It would be premature to anticipate the ultimate result of the great battle which has just been fought for three days, or perhaps more, near Fre dericksburg ; but even if the result be adverse to the North, it is idle to suppose that they will be content to accept it as a conclusive test of the superiority of their adversaries. Since the opening of the war no battles have been fought with more determination ; and it is ob vious that, as time advances, the skill and courage of the North, instead of diminishing, acquires fresh force. In the meantime, it maybe interest .. ing to note the various steps which immediately preceded the battles in question, and to explain the movements of the three days' action. About seventy miles north of Richmond lies Fredericksburg, on the southern bank of the Rap pahannock. A railway running directly south connects those two cities. At the end of last mouth General Le with his Confederate troops lay entrenched on the heights which overhang Fredericksburg. Las's base of operations bei-ig Richmond, he was of course in a posi tion to obtain any quantity of men and other supplies he might require from that capitaL Opposite Les, at Falmouth, lay HOOKER, with the army of the Potomac. He communicated with Washington by sea. By glancing at the map it will be observed that the Rappahannock, coming down from the north-west, is joined about twelve miles above Fredericksburg by the Rapidan. Thence both streams, assuming the name of the former river, descend almost eastward to Chesa peake Bay. What may have been t'ie numbers of the two opposing armies it is impossible to state accurately. But Hoossa is said to have had under him about 120,000 men. No conjecture has been hazarded as to the number under the Confederate Commander•in-Chief. Such being the position of things, HOOKER determined to turn General Las's left flank by crossing the Rappahannock about twelve miles above Falmouth, and advancing acrom the ground which lies between that river and the Rapidan—crossing the Rapidan, and then threatening Las's communications with Richmond. }loos= hoped that by this manceuvre he should be able to compel Las to leave his entrench ments above Fredericksburg, and thus reoei ie that officer's attack on ground selected by Fm self. But such a movement is by no means easy. He might be attacked just at the moment of crossing the Rapidan ; his right flank might be overwhelmed before his centre or left could come to his assistanoe ; or he might find Lac so ezong, by reason of the concentration of all the Confede rate troops within a considerable circuit, that re sistance might be hopeless. Let us now see how Hooxisa executed the plan which he had formed. On Monday, the 27th of April, having left a reserve at Falmouth, and having marched the ; bulk of his army twelve miles up the Rappahan nock, be crossed that river. With an army of 100,000 men it is of course impossible to psis by one ford, and therefore no less than three stem to have been selected. The next three or four days were spent by this branch of the army in crossing the Rapidan and marching south-east ward towards Chancellonville. This town seems to be about eight miles from Fredericksburg, and is a station on the railroad connecting that city and Gordonsville, which lies some seventy miles to the south-west. In the mean ice Gc neral STONRKAN, with the Federal °avidly, had been despatched to break up the railroad between Richmond and Fredericksburg, and was to prevent Liz receiving his reinforcements. Whether he succeeded in that enterprise seems I doubtful. ft is said that after the time when ' STONEMAN ought to have accomplished his task Liz received large reinforcements from Richmond. Between Tuesday, the 28th of April, and Satur day, the 2nd of May, nothing important occurred. Bet on Saturday morning it appears that Svoits- 1 WALL JACKSON fell upon the right flank of the Federal& The probability is that this was the advanced guard of HOOKER, and that the bulk of the army had not yet come up. One division of Germans seems to have been driven back, but even Srowcwari , JACKSON didnot succeed in driving the right flank back over the Rapidan. The result of Saturday's battle, there fore, was clearly in favour of the Federals. Bat this is not *IL HOOKZR completely sumeeded in his design. He compelled LEL to leave his en trenchments above Fredericksburg, and to assume the initiative. This is precisely the advantage of THE EX . - - which the Federals have always been deprived by I circumstances. They have in almost every ease b een th e assa iling party. The next morning, Sun day, at daybreak, the Confederates renewed the attack. Again General Lac appears to have had a partial success, but again the Federals stood t h e i r ground, and maintained themselves on the south side of the Rapidan river. But they did Imore. For on that same day a body of Federals, estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000 men, cross ed about three miles below Fredericksburg, and assailed the heights above that city, where LEE had been entrenched. These entrenchments were carried, and the troops which had occupied them retired to join LEE at Chancelloraville. Ac cording to one account, the right wing, under HOOKER himself, was separated from these 20,000 men by some five miles. LEE thus standing between these two armies, the attack was renewed on Monday afternoon, but without important results. General Senoswicies division, however, was defeated on the same day, and driven across the river. Neither Hooray nor Lae can suffer a real defeat in the position in which they stood on Monday morning, the 4th of May, without serious consequences. flooxma's retreat lies across two rivers. On the other hand, Lex, if he fails to hold the railway between Frede ricksburg and Richmond, must retreat by cross roads upon that capital. Whoever may be victo ' rims, it is clear that both armies must have suf fered very severely. It is impoaaible.to fight during three successive days in the open field without serious loss. In the meantime it must be ad -11:11.o. that ...WILES has proved himself an officer of skill and of the most undaunted resolution. TEE LATE MR. WESTERN WOOD, M.P. THE regret with which we record the death of Mr. WESTERN WOOD, M.P., will be shared, without exception, by that very large portion of the public with whom his various mercantile and political duties brought him into connexion. Mr. WOOD belonged to a family which has enjoyed a large measure of public esteem ; but he owed his election for the City of London, two years ago, when a seat became vacant by the retirement of Lord Joni! Ruessix, to his own character. The constituency, unable to replace its late Member by another of equal political celebrity, resolved to return to the ancient practice of sending to Par liament one of its own citizens of tried ability and zeal. Mr. Wool) did not disappoint the expecta tions formed of him, and had he lived he would probably have represented the City for many years to come. It will be well if the citizens should secure a successor equally worthy of their con fidence. ne Court, By command of the Queen, a drawing-room was held on Saturday in St. Jamee's-palace by the Princess of Wales, on beludf of her Majesty. The court was attended by about two thousand of the nobility and gentry. The presentations of ladies upon this occasion exceeded five hun dred, and, by the Queen's pleasure, were considered equiva lent to presentations to her Majesty. The Prince and Princes, of Wales, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, and escorted by a party of Life Guards, arrived soon after 2 o'clock at St. James's-palace, and were received by the Mistress of the Robes and the great officers of state of the Queen's household. The Prince and Princess Louis of Heine arrived from Marlborough-hems, attended by Baroness von Schenck, Bs :opens von Grum, C►ptain ii2eeterweller, and Mr. Becker. The Prince of Orman was attended by his 'optimum in waiting. The Princess of Wales took her static in front of the throne,. accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the other members of the royal family. Her Royal Highness wore a train of rich white silk, having a deep trimming of white crape, and wreaths of white lilac, and Honiton lace. The petticoat richly trimmed to match the train. The headdress of the Princess was formed of a diamond tiara, feathers, and tulle veiL The ornaments were dia monds and opals. The Prince of Wales wore the uniform of the 10th Hus sars, of which regiment hi Royal Highness's ooloneL The Princess Louis of Hesse wore a train of silver moire richly trimmed with pale violet velvet and silver bullion. The petticoat of white crystalline with bouilloones of white tulle covered with Irish point looped with velvet and silver to match the twain. Tha head-dress a diamond tiara, a tulle veil ornamented with pearls, and feathers. Diamond neck lace, brooch, and earrings. The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a petticoat of white main trimmed with tulle sod bands of lilac velvet, covered with a tunic of Honiton lace. The train of lilac silver moire antique, trimmed round with Monica lace. Her Royal Highness's headdress was composed of a diadem of diamonds, mounted on lilac velvet, feathers, and silver tulle veil; necklace, stomacher, and ear-rings of pearls and diamonds. Mier the reception of the diplomatic corps, the general circle was introduced, when the names of the Min attend ing, or having the honour of being presented to the Princess of Wales for the Queen, were announced to her Royal High. QM by the Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty'. Household. The reception, which commenced at 2, was concluded at a quarter before 6 o'clock. The Prince's of Wales and the Prinoein Louis of Hems took a drive in an open carriage on Saturday. The Prime of Wales honoured Mr. Frith with a sitting for his picture of the Royal Wedding, at his studio, on Saturday. . . Mr. Theodore Jensen has had the honour of a mooed sitting from the Pr looms of Wales, for the purpose of taking a life-sire portrait of her royal highness. The Prince and Princess of Wales anct the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the Countess of BS accleedleld and Major Teesdale, honoured the perform ance at the Lyceum Theatre with their presence in the evening. Yesterday morning the Prince and Prins of Wahl, and the Priam and Prineeet LOWS of Hansa attended Divine ser vice in the Chapel Regal, St. James's. The Communion service was read by the Bishop of London, the Rev. T. Ran dolph, and the Rev. J. Antrobus. The sermon wee preaohed by the Bishop of London, from Gemini, chap. v. 27. The anthem was " God is gone up" (Croft). Mr. Goes presided at the organ. Their royal highnesses were attended by the Coontins of Macclesfield, Barman von Schenck, Baroness von Grapey, Major Teesdale, andOaptain Wodervieller. The Archbishop of Armagh, tie Bad of Bt. Gamma, and lirlsoount Sydney also attended the service. The Prince sod Princess of Wales, and the Priam sad Primates Louis of Hesse visited the White Lodge in Rich. mood-wk. A Cabinet Council wee held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Wrier Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mn. Gladstone entertained at divisor on Saturday the Doke of St. Albans, the Earl sod Cantos of Rauh, the Hon. Mr. Wane, the Hoo. Mr. Stanley, Lord Lyttelton and the Hon. Lucy Lyttalton, Lord Brabaion, Mr. Talbot, Mr. and Miss Ibldinay, Hon. Victor Stuart Wortley, and Mrs. L. Gladstone. The Southampton papers record the death of Mr. George Edmondsoo, the principal of Queonswood Collets, in Hants. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Co lonial-cake to the Governors of the North Areerirsa Pre vioces, Bermude, the Lord HO Cormierlewd the lonia& bloods, the Governors of the Wert lodas lake* sod British Columbia. 'BESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1863. - - MOUSED VISIT r Till PRINCE AND HE PRINCESS OP DAT. ALES ro EPSOM ON T "DERBY" It is rumoured to-day that their Royal High noses the Prince and Princess of Wales will be present at Epsom Downs on Wednesday, and witness the running for "The Derby." Oa the 3rd of Jane, 1840, four months after their marriage, her Majesty the Queen and the late Prince Cowart witnessed the race. The day was very floe, and the concourse of penes' of all ranks greater than was ever known before. Her Majesty and the Prince arrived soon after one, in' time to allow the Prince to ride round the course, and see the preparations for the day's sport. The winner of the Derby that year was Mr. Roberteou'a Little Wonder. 'moats'sly after the race, Mr. E. Anson entered the I weighing place and delivered to Macdonald, the jockey, who rode Little Wonder, an elegant riding whip as a testi monial from Prince Albert of hie admiration of Macdonald's jockeyahip. "The Queen and Prince Albert," says the Annual Resister, " left the course after the second race, for Clare mont, amidst the acclamations of the mighty multitude." THE DRAWING.ROOM ON SATURDAY. An observer of what was passing in the west end of London on Saturday last must have enjoyed a splendid spectacle of the wealth and magnificence of the present age. Towards St. James's Palace slowly converged two dreams of carriages, the one from the south by way of the Mall and St. James's Park, the other, larger and longer, extend ing back as far as Albert-gate, and fed iocerantly by new recruits as fad as the admission of the leading carriages brought forward the rear of the procession, the object being to pay • tribute of respect and loyalty to the Queen, and to the fair young Princess who did the honours of Eng land's court in the Queen's absence. The horses and bar sea were splendid, the carriages beautifully finished, and the costume of their fair occupants as brilliant Si the most exquisite materials and moat costly jewels could make it. What a glorious spectacle, and how great most have been the happiness of those favoured beings whom rank, whom fortune and position, allowed to participate in it. " There can be no greater mistake," says the Tuts. "The whole affair was miserable, and there is no misery like splendid miser/. To begin with the royal lady herself who so worthily represented the Queen on the owadon. For four mortal hours did the unceasing stream of feathers, dia monds, and trains flaunt and Butter put her. Courtesy had to be rendered for courtesy, and bow for bow, till exhausted nature could barely sprat • weariness that almost amounted to torture, and at one time the doors were closed in order to give the overtaaked Princes • few momenta for repose and refreshment. It Is impossible to doubt that, gratifying as such • display of good feeling must have been to the Princess, she was obliged to purchase it by an amount of patient endurance which it is cruel to demand from any lady, and especially from one so young and so fair. Let us turn from the Princess to the ladies who pissed before her. They had not the reasonable gratification of displayielaheir beauty and the splendour of their dress and jewels before the eyes of that sex whom they may not unreasonably wish to pleas. A notice, only too well founded on the neoerity of the sae, forbad the attendance of gentlemen at the Drawing-room, and the ladies had only the poor consolation of showing their good looks, their fine dresses, and their jewels to each other. ! Besides this mortification to a harmless vanity, the orna ments of the English court were subjected to more substan tial grievance.. Many ladies remained in their carriages for six hours, being jerked along at the rate of two or three yards at • time, until at last they attained, jaded, worn out, and dispirited, the privilege of being admitted to a pen, to wait under genteel coercion, perhaps, for an hour or two longer. And yet this was no penance for the sins of the nation, no crowding of youth and beauty for • public sacrifice ; it was merely an old institution which has over grown its limits, and which nobody seems to have the wit to reform." There were at the Drawing-room some beautiful displays of lace too costly almost for calculation, comparatively speak ing. Plain silks and silver tissues were decidedly the mode for the trains ; the figured and brocaded silks wwe few and far between, and decidedly old fashioned. Velvet studded with jewels was much worn aa a bead drew by the matrons of middle age, but fiowen were the favourite ooiffrre of the younger ladies ; these wreaths are high and full over the forehead, and are slight round the head. In colours, mauve and magenta seem to have had their day, and the present favourites appear to be • very light sod bright green and • dark blue. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (sore=s rxxsoasita) AMERICA. DEFEAT OF GENERAL SEDGWICK. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, MAT lg. ' An extra edition of the New York Herold of the 6th inst., published just at the departure of the Persia, has been received here. it contains the following further intelligence : " Advice. from Hooker's main army to the night l of Monday, the 4th inst., announce that General Hooker maintained his new line without impor ' taut change. 4i Monday was a quiet day. No fighting I whatever took place until late in the afternoo n, when General Hooker advanced a division, to feel the enemy. A brisk action ensued, lasting half an hour. The Federals afterwards retired to their main line and rested. General Hooker is busily entrenching. "Advice. from General Sedgwick's forces are to 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the sth instant. 1 General Sedgwick's division, 15,000 strong, was I' hotly engaged throughout Monday. It was terri bly cut up, gave way, and finally recrossed the . river during the night. The slaughter waa fright , ful on both sides." ANOTHER , ACCOUNT. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY Moornas. The New York Herold of the 6th, in an extra edition, gives news from Fredericksburg to 2 a.m. on the morning of the sth, at which time Hooker was entrenching himself. On the afternoon of the 4th a severe engagement took place, in which the Confederates were forced back ; but the Federals retired to their main lice. On the morning of the 4th General Longstreet attacked General Secigwick's corps, and, after severe fighting, the latter was driven across the Rappahan- nook at 2 a.m. on the sth. I At daybreak on the sth the Confederates had obtained a position on the hills, on the south bank of the Rappahannock, scarcely two miles below the United States ford, and commenced a vigorous shelling of the Federal trains, lying posted on the north side of the river, close to the ford. THE AII'ERICAN NEWS. The Times thinks that though the ultimate re sult depends entirely on the Mum of the battle on Monday, General Hooker's objecte seem to have been frustrated. "We can anticipate no more hopeful tidings from the government ' at Washington having kept back the news of the result of Monday's battle. If it should have been unfavourable, we do not wonder at their hesitating to proclaim so great a calamity. If General Hooker is defeated, the lut chance of success, at least in Virginia, is gone. The only general who has shown any enterprise or activity will have been hopelessly beaten." The Post believe, that the Northern general has sustained • disastrous it not a decisive defeat. The Hernial expecte to learn that Hooker's advance has been changed into • disgraceful retreat, and that the Confede- rate general has been in • position to improve the victory. " Our correspondent in the South led as to believe that the Confederate troops were ready for an offensive movement. Is it too much to hope that they have achieved a victory which will bring them to the banks of the Potomac, and force from the selfish fears of the Northern administration that peace which cannot be looked for from He wisdom or patriotism." Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince's of Wales hays accepted an invitation to dice with the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at Northumberland Bones, on Friday, the 12th of June, _ _ . Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Waal will give a wooed, on Friday next, at Marlborough - The Duchess of Inverness will be honoured with the company of their Royal Higbnreme the Prince and Princess of Wales, at dinner, on - Monday next, at Hee 'legion Palace, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam bridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, will honour the darken with their company on thin oc. Visoannt and Viscountess Palmerston had a dinner party on Saturday at Cambridge House. There were present the Earl and Counts of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, the Counteea Cowley, the Coasters (Dowa ger) of Tsakerville, the Hight Hon. W. F. Cowper, Hon. Henry Cowper, Hon. Edith Joeelyn, Yr. F. Oliphaat, Calmat, Mr. H. R. Grenfell, 10. T HE CONSERVATIVES AND THE CITY ELECTION. The Morning Herald cannot suppose that the conservative • " party will be slow to seise the oocanea which is now of- fared to them by the death et Mr. Western Wood. "The , representation of the City is a prize worth contesting, even if the odds were more against us than they are actually in our favour ; and it would argue a singular want of zeal or of faith if such a prize were at such a moment allowed to pass by default into the hands of another ministerial no minee. The conservative feeling among the upper ranks of the mercantile community is too strong to allow us to en tertain any doubt that a thoroughly qualified candidate will be forthcoming. The conservative spirit in all ohms* is too powerful and the aversion excited in the City by the ca prices of Mr. Gladstone, the perversities of Sir George Grey, and the extrevagancies of liberalism in general, is too better and too manifest to permit us to doubt that a suit • able candidate will be triumphant." THE "DERBY."—Argue, of the Post, believes th e Darby will rest between Maecereini and Gillis, and that next to them we shall see Lord Clifden. The prophet of the Advertiser =proem a coeviction that Lord Clifden (Fortnum) or King of the Vale (Wells) will be the recipient of the '63 Derby, and "if a 'Carat-tams' sown' is in store for us lea me tall beck on the ' leggy' Giles the First." The same authority is of opinion that either Lady Augusta (Edwards) or Miss Armstrong (Snowden) will be the winner of the Oaks. THE THREATINILD VIADI7OT OYEZ LVDGATE4HLL. —The Lendee, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany have not only dropped their Ludgate Stations Bill, but all the chump in their other bills now before the loose of Lords which applied to their City Extension scheme. They now threstaa to fall back on their old powers, which are more restrieted thee them they applied for. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (111011 OM OWN 001 PARIS, Burns? EVZNINO. The Mottiteur announces that it has received despatches from Puebla down to April 12, i.e., ten days' later than those from General Foray which it published on Friday. The official journal tells the French public that " all was going on well," and that is the whole account which it condescends to give of the operations of those ten days. Whether the Cathedral and the Place d'Armes were taken or not, and what losses the French army had sus tained during that long period of fighting, are sub jects upon which the government thinks it desirable to throw no light whatever. K de Peraigny must be greatly pleased at the quarrels among the opposition candidates for Paris. The Cotsrrier du Din aisehe yesterday made a dead set against M. Ravin and stigmatised him as afaux frere on the ground of the old story, that in Decem ber, 1851, he was a candidate for the council-general of Thorigny sur Vire (a place in Normandy where he has property) with the assent of the government. The Courrier invited a subscription for the purpose of placarding in Paris K Ravin's address to the electors of Thorigny sur Vire. To this attack M. Ravin makes this morning what I think a very good answer. He offers to spare the pockets of the Courrier du Dimatiche's friends, and to supply them at his own costa and charges with 55,000 copies of the address in question. It appears that on the very day of the election, and after he had been held up by the prefect as a dangerous enemy of the government, he published the address, stating that I both the Minister of the Interior and the Emperor had told him they would not be sorry to see him elected. That fact is not denied, and the statement of it, under the circumstances, was in no way dis honourejpe to Id. Ravin, or inconsistent with his presen.osition of an opposition candidate. The Sick to-day objects, as an infringement of the principle of "equality in the eye of the law," that M. Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine, should print electioneering addresses on behalf of govern ment candidates at the expense of the public. Let (it says) the government candidates be puffed as much as possible by the official journals—that is part of an avowed system for which plausible reasons may be given and of which no complaint is made ; but it is hard that opposition candidates, in their character of taxpayers, should be made to pay for their opponents' canvassing. In the case of an action for breach of contract, brought by a Frenchman against a Russian rail way company, which has an office in Paris and daily does business on the Bourse, the Imperial Court, presided by K Devienne, has just laid down the important doctrine "that a foreign joint-stock company, not registered is France pursuant to the new law of 1857, can neither sue nor be sued in France." There had been conflicting decisions on the point, the tribunal of commerce having construed the law as the Court of Appeal has now done, while the civil tribunk of First Instance held that the foreign company might be sued. The first advocate-general, M. Oscar de Valle, in accordance with whose recommendation the judgment on appeal was pronounced, admitted that the state of the law for which he contended was unjust, absurd, and contrary to the law of nations. Nevertheless he held that the court was absolutely bound by the text of the act of 1657, and he could only hope that the present decision would lead to an alteration of the law. The Daily News is seised. CAPTAINS SPEER AND GRANT JOINED BY MIMICS ON THE WHITE NILE. It will be a relief to the public anxiety respecting the fate of Mr. Petherick, whom death had been announced , some time ago in a telegram from Alexandria, to hear the good news that he is alive and well, having effected a June- tion with Captains Spoke and Grant at Gondokoro, on the White Nile, on the 23rd of February. In reference to the great question of the sources of the Nile Captain Spoke thus writes to Sir Roderick Murchison : "I said I would do it, and I have done it. The Victim:a Nyarria is the great reservoir of the sacred Bahr el Abiad (White Nile). . . . I think I may safely say (he adds) that I never felt so rejoiced at I did when Petherick deli- Mei to me your letter, notifying that the Royal Geogra phical Society bad adjudicated to me their Foundries Medal (for the discovery of the Lake Victoria Nyanza), the more so as the kind expreesions in your letter reached me just as my trials were over." By the intelligence communicated to the Foreign-office by Mi. Coiquhoun, her Britannic Majesty's consul at Alex andria, it appears that the Viceroy of Egypt was about to send a steamer to Amman, to bring Spoke and party down to Cairo, so that we may soon welccme them at home. It further appears that Baker, the adventurous author of the "Rifle and Hound," had gone to the soutk-west in search of another great internal lake, or branch of the White Nile, and will return in one year. Captain Spoke, writing on the 30th of March from Khartum to Mr. Saunders at Alexandria, says: We left Petheriek, wife, and doctor all well at Gondo koro. Baker, who was the first Englishman we met with. gave us assistance in boats, stores, and money." As Captain Spoke was in anxiety as to the means of send ing back the negro porters and attendants, T. 3 in number, to their native country, near Zanzibar, we are happy to my that this wish has been anticipated by the last mail. Believing that he would be so emberramed, Sir Roderick bfarchbos , applied to his friend Admiral W. H. Hall, who, as one of the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Com pany, has liberally arranged with his aasociatee that these poor and faithful people shall be eoeveyed gratis to Aden or Bombay, whence they can be shipped direct for Zanzibar. " This discovery of Spoke and Grant," writes Sir Roderick, "by which the southernmost limit of the basin of the Nile ) is determined to be four degrees south of the equator, tithe most remarkable geographical feat of our age, and is, indeed, an achievement of which all our countrymen may well be proud." The Czaa states, on what it considers as good authority, that the chief of the staff of the Russian army has been to Berlin under a false name, with the view of - opening military negotiations. This general, after a con s' knave of some hours, is said to have left for Posen, where ft he was present at several military councils, and these/ rie turned to Warsaw. According to the Czas, the result d 2 these interviews was to be the immediate despatch at the 4 Prussian third corps to the Polish frontier. 2 OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL—The Royal Mail 1 steamship Asia arrived at Queenstown at 11 a.m. yederdey. I She embarked the mails, passengers, and teMarraMa, and 1 proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 4 p.m. All well. COTTON FROM BOMBAY.—The servals of Bast Jodie cotton into Liverpool daring the past week I have been enormous, and on Saturday last three more ships I entered the Hersey from Bombay, viz.: the Jokiest, Sea Horse, and Clara Wheeler. The Sea Horse briap 4.087 1 hole. of cotton. the 'blower 2,927 bales, and the Clara g Wheeler 4,200 bales. - THE WELLINGTON STATUE AT LIVERPOOL.—The monument and statue erected at Liverpool by public sub. • scriptioo, having been at bat completed, were houguratal s on the afternoon of Saturday last, in the presume of some 4 30,000 or 40,000 persons. The monument is situated in the I magnificent open place, one side of which is formed by the principal facade ci tk. George'shall, and it will form a meat interesting feature amongst the architectural attractions of the town. The monument was designed by Mr. Levees. of Edinburgh, and the statue by his brother, a pupil of Mr. Adams, of London, both coating about 5,0001. About 2,000 volunteers, commanded by Colonel Sir J. Joan, K.C.8.. were grouped in the vicieity of the monument, which was formally handed overt to the Mayor by Ms. Jobs Torr. the secretary of the Monument Committee, who ex plained the miens which had delayed its completion. Sk William Brown, Bart, then delivered a brief address on the career of the great duke ; and Mr. Councillor lupine& sad Mr. T. Edwards Mom also addromed the company. When the statue was useevereck a solute of 19 guns was fired, the bands of the various votostoor pep streak up • martial sir, and the vast =Mode gave line M.ny titsnie sheers. POLAND. BRESLAU, MAY 17. Private letter. from Poland state that the Rus sian government has ordered its officers and civil functionaries in Poland to send their wives without delay into the interior of Russia. THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. BERLIN. Mat 18. The ministers did not make their appearance in the Chamber of Deputies to-day. The President read a letter from the ministry of to-day's date, relative to the late resolution of the chamber. This letter concludes as follow : " The ministry have not asked that the President should relinquish his right of interrupting their speeches, but only that he should declare that be has no disciplinary privilege, especially that of calling the ministers to order." The ministry report that unless such a decla ration be made they will not be present at the sittings of the chamber. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MAT 18. The Valetta, with the above, arrived at Mar seilles at 8 &m. this day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. THE GREEK DEPUTATION AT COPEN• - HAGEN. The Greek deputation has demanded of the pre sideut of the council, K Hall, that a period shall be fixed within which Prince William will make known his determination relative to the crown of Gre•3ce. The deputation says, "it cannot wait for the prince's reply for an indefinite period." RUSSIA AND FINLAND. The academical senate and the municipality of Helsingfors in Finland have ref used to sign an address of devotion to the Emperor of Russia in relation to the Polish insurrection. The inhabi tants of Abo, the second capital of Finland, have also refused to sign the address recommended to all the Russian provinces by the military governors. ROME RECONCILIATION BETWEEN CARDINAL ANTONELLI AND MGR. DE MERODE. " A strange piece of news," says the Paris Prase of to-day, " has reached us from Rome. M. de Merode and Cardinal Antonelli have been publicly reconciled in the presence of the Pope ! On the eve of his departure from Ceprano, Pius IX., while lying on his bed, made an appeal to the two minis ters, and expressed to them in the midst of sobs' all the grief which their divisions had caused him, and all the scandal which must result if these divi sions were made notorious by the retirement of one of them. The next day the two ministers dined We a-Mte with the Pope. Our correspondent from Rome, after having mentioned the emotion and surprise produced by this intelligence, asks himself whether this reconciliation is sincere, and, above all, whether it will be lasting. The friends of M. de Merode say confidently that the proofs of the culpability of M. de Fausti having convinced Car -1 dinal Antonelli, his eminence has no longer any I reason for persisting in his resignation." WEATR.ER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, MAT IY, I A.M. ___ ...._..._ 12j. K -. . I). 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S.W. to N.W., mode rate, variable BAIL to W.S.W.. moderate, variably. N.L to BM, mode rate. to 8.W., troth. .B.g to 8.8. W., too gleate. ans. L COlif . 4 ben above. DEATH OF WESTERN WOOD, ESQ m p It is our painful duty to record the death of Western Wood, FN., member of parliament for the City of London, which took place at ball-put nine o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence, North Cray Place, Kent He wu attacked early in the week by inflammation of bosh limp, accompanied by pleurisy, which baffled all the skill of his medical attendants. The deceased garrison& was th e youngest son of the late Alderman Sir Matthew Weed, Bart., who represented the City of London is parieuneet for 28 years, and brother of Vioe•Cbaaoellor Sir W. p er , Wood. Mr. Wood was returned for the City of Loud * in July, 1881. Mr. Wood wss born on the 4th of January, 1804, and nu eoemeonmaly in his sixtieth year. He was educated at Winchester College, end in 1829 married a daughter adobe Morris, Esq., a director of the East India Compaoy. Th e WOO of this union, still living, is two eons and three daughters SHOCKING INHUMANITY OP A WIPE. VERDICT GP MANSLAUGHTER. INQUBST.—(THIS DAY.) Thin morning Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle sex coroner, resumed at the Plough Tavern, Plough-yard. Shoreditch, the inquiry relative to the death of Mr. William Henry Doggett, aged 38 years. Mr. Webb, from the office of Meagre. Symeg and Sandi land, appeared for Mrs. Doggett, sad Mr. Wells repreeented the relatives of the deceased. Mrs. Fielding, nurse, said that she was engaged to elicit deceased about four months ago. She went on a Saturday and left on the following Tuesday. Mrs. Doggett was drunk the whole of the time. Mrs. Doggett struck deceased in a most brutal manner while be lay on his bed. She used to laugh and say it was a joke. She violently struck him several times between the shoulde rs a nd gag "it seal in fun." She would not allow witness to give him any medicines. Witness once saw her give him spirits. The medicines gent by the doctor need to be l e ft i n the bottles. Mrs. Doggett kicked witness it the breast and said that she should not rema i n any longer. She would not allow witness or anyone else to wash or clean him. By Mr. Wells—Mrs. Doggett once thing a chair at drowsed across the bed, but it did not hit him. He not to have had • clean shirt for three months. t i eTy uld thing w as fi lthy. Mn. Doggett had general control over her husband. By Mr. Webb.—Deomaxl never made any complaint while witness was there. He used to call his wife "My dear Polly" and endearing names. She was tipsy when she threw the chair at him. Mr. James Mercer, assistant to Dr. Wolfe, said that he attended deceased from Nov., 1862, to Feb., 186.3. De ceased was suffering front the effects of drink bordering on delirium tremens. Witnoes always impressed on Mrs. Douett the neceseity of deoeesed taking his medicines. Never saw Mrs. Doggett strike deetassel, except when 'she boxed his ears while he sat on the sofa. He was miffing from dropsical legs; and while pealing him Mrs. Doggett kicked his lefp• Deceased cried out as if much hurt ; any I i n jury to the pep would cease great pain. Would not like to say it was by design. Ones she kicked him is the sto- I ma ch. Could not say whether that was by accident or design. Witness's medicines were put under the grate. 'She used to call the poor fellow off his sofa when he could hardly move. She bad him wider her control. By Mr. Wells—Witness discontinued his attendance be muse Mrs. Doggett ax°srd him of stealing a quantity of her jewellery. Her treatment of deceased was not proper. By Mr. Webb—Deceased always told witness be took his mWkines. Deemeed sometimes celled to and 'poke to Mrs. Doggett in Welsh—a language witness did not under. stand. Sarah Dalton, recalled, said that she was preaent on one occasion when Mr. Roper, sen., was sent for at 3 o'clock in the morning. Witless' went back with Mr. Ro= to ' his house, and fetched a bottle of medicine. Mr. B:oper directed it to be given directly to deerueed. Mrs. took it end emptied it under the fireplace, saying, poison him quite goon enough without that." Deceased was slaseat breathing his last, he was so low, when wits= west for the doctor. Mrs. Doggett seat to get the doctor, bat she was very tipsy at the time. The medicines w= coatinualthrown away. Mr. C. W hitworth , 16, North-street, Whitechapel, mid that be was thirteen months in the employ of deceased. Oa one occasion he saw Mrs. Doggett throw a carving-knife at deceased. Mr. Doggett referred to his first wife's husband. He mentioned the name of John Doggett ; and something was said witness did not well hear. She jumped upend said, "He was a better man than you—l loved him, which I sever did you. I only married you for your money." Shs then took a large carving-knife from the box, sad was stout to Bing it at de wised. Witness turned round, and she seeing him looking, chucked it on the floor, into which it stuck about the length of as nth. She seised the box of knives and threw them at him. Witness did not think they struck deceased. She hurled the ale and the candlestick at him. She then hurled the chair at him and struck him on the leg. She then ordered him to pick up the things, which he did. She said, " Have you picked them all up!' He replied, "I think I have." " Then," said she, "come and kiss your poor aunt"—(laughter)—which he did, frightened lest he should be hit apes. Mr. Webb said that could only be • supposition, and could not be considered as evidence. By Mr. Wells—There were about 10 servants in 13 months. By Mr. Webb—Mrs. and Mr. Doggett were not sober. Mrs. Doggett did not laugh until she said "Come and kiss your aunt." She threw the carving-knife into the floor with all her force. Mr. Webb said that he bad no objection to Mr. Wells putting in the will, which would prove that the family bad got • codicil on the Ist of March, which would show that the family then accepted his capacity. In that case, of course the drowsed was competent to consult his medial advisers and act as be thonlht proper. Mr. Wells said that he would put in the document else where. where all the circumstances connected with it could be elicited is evidence. TheCorogier them read over the voluminous depoeitions at great length, and proceeded to sum up. The question of paramount importaaos was, be said, whether the life of dr ceased had been shortened br any means. If his life wee shortened by preconoerted malice, the cue would be one of murder. In considering *bather the acts which were de posed to ware deliberately prearranged in the wife's own mind the motives of course were to be regarded. It should be remembered that she bad made remarks that when be was dead she should eojcv all his property, and also that she wished him to die. 13at if it appeared that the ill-usage and neglect and deprivation of nourahrosat and medicine was not deliberately planned, but had caused death, the ma would be one of manslaughter. it might be said that the deceased could have remedied the shocking state of things described of his own motion, but it was distinctly proved that he eau under his wife's control, and was actually in bodily fair of her. If the neglect and deprivation arose, in the opinion of the jury, merely through the inability of the wife from drunkenuess to set in • different manner, then they would say eo in the verdict, and they might append to it any expression of their condemnation as the utterly disgraceful and dissolute coa. duct of the woman. The jury, he hoped, would not allow their natural sympathies with the deceased, se • neighbocri to bias their judgment in coming to a conclusion. The court was then cleared, and, after a long delibera tion, the jury unanimously returned • verdict of " Man slaughter 'pion Anne Doggett for feloniously killing sad slaying Wm. Henry Doggett" The Coroner then made out his warrant for the committal of Km Doggett to Newgate. In a few days the whole of the planets known to the ancients will be visible is the heavens. Deputations from Blackburn, in reference to un employed factory operatives, had an interview with Sir G. ()rayon fiaturd t o w at the Hoof e. The deputation , whic h was introduced Mr. Jim Pilkiogton, Id. P., consisted al Mr. J. B. S. 8 y, mayor of Blackburn ; Mr. Robt. Hut- Whoa, ea-mayor • Mr. Aldermen Berms, Mr. John Live sey, Mr. Jas. Ardente, and Mr. Brier y, C.E. to the coo petition of Blackburn. GRESHAM Commix —Professors suggest scholar, or at Laid auditors, but these are seldom to be seen ill Gresham College, except when the lecturer as music ars given, and then the small theatre is crowded, not bec.dtue it is a lecture on musical art, but bemuse it is is fact a concert to which the citizens are admitted him It is almost an insult to our readers to point out the folly of having lectures on kstronomy,Physic, Divinity,and Rhetoric, delivered by learned men, in Latin, at twelve o'clock in de day to empty benches, or if not to empty beaches to a fee nursery-maids who find the theatre • comfortable shelter on a rainy day or in exceedingly sultry weather sod when the public understand that 1,20- or more per annum is expended in this learned folly, we can but hope that the days of the present system are 0,111. bend. Several attempts have without success been made during the last twenty years to breathe into the dead boll a living spirit, by associating it wiih some ma t of learn iog, such as King's College, the London Universitr, or even the London Institution in Finsbury Circus. Wh 4 ma be so irksome to a man of talent as to speak to curt? seats, or to feel that he is perpetually *owing seed that not only eau never ripest but never even germinate. There is s dirusity that so hedges round this ancient corporaton. that our desire to make their 1,200/. a year useful to the citizens will be denounced by beadledom se as unwarrannible neer. femme with municipal institutions. The wonder that shrewd c aleulatiag men of business, as the geoerid War of citizens indisputably are, can permit such an abuse to fester in their very heart. Surely there are left among the merchants of the City of London some men, worthy sitcom . eon of Sir Thomas Gresham, who look upon him as sat honour to their order, and who ought to feel it incumbent num them to force the trustees to a faithful performs.* of their duty.—Th Mirror. GRISNLaNn SZAL FLIMING.—The Lord &Bonn, from Greenland, arrived at Pearlised on Thursday, three weeks from the ice, with 5.000 seals, about 50 tam of al. Bbe reports the Active of Peterhead, and the Menotti sod Alm. Harvey, of Fraserburg, had each about the r ams gaudily. The Cempordown, of Duadee, at an early dale, had 3,000 seals, 90 tons, and was likely to get considerably more. The Palm, of Hall. and three Norwegians are le• portal well laid. but quiddity. net slated. The C this day r following which ws on Janus To the THE 41 The street p 1 OM we Led beu bead, r et c% iii: ii called II that the meat. His orderini Pry The I count► well, b Payne, contain Wi r 8 c ould imperff scribed -- The] Char sentiont Cottage It appe a puree the oth meat, anteced known penal I *Ping Baker penal e John deceutl Institu tenced Jane tz..9 con --- trib false al Jane street, 11000, Dote la Mr 7. lad sib the Re bag & a him In mai b & ' a Ag with L Poll two= drank into ci *hick The loth leeksd hial m ander