The Express. — London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

MESSRS. MECHI and BAZIN'S SHOW BONES are replete with everything adapted for Wed ding sad Birthdity nemesia—lA Regent-street, sad 4, Landon itailvtreet, Loudon. OPERA, FFELD, anti RIFLE GLASSES. NEORETTI And ZAMBIA'S DOCBLI ACHROMATIC OLA.SS, punning great power, couplet* In cue, Ha and eta Seat on receipt 0 I poßoa order.-1, Hattonirsrden ; 11, Carslni; 1 2 1 Aft aga : and Crystal Pasco, Sydenharn. p FUN 'IRIS WEEK, Price One Penny , X*: Poo at Court. The . letting Day. Ad au Black, Nag., M.P. Pr asentattona at tbe late Drawing-room. . 1 ' AMOY Lament to Jenny, be. NOW re add, haadeomely bound la magmata cloth, gUt price ie. eld.. poet veld. ea, THE nil E 1 lIALP-YZA.RLY VOLUME ot FUN. with amorous Ada Fby tainted artiste, sad articles by distingahhed writers. The First ad Sawed Volumes, =llona with the third, on Ma. Lite entreiso. _HA VVAL!ILT., Srirernia, TITZVCCPANI 7 I4II LAMB.—FINTHAE. Year. A WFpa. How.. Backstops. Gordon. god rarleU ; NIL A. Wlpa Hlta Wilklum, Aseld. sad Kim F. "'ASIA — Lad VOCIECBTIANI AT PRINCISFS. TES Emma, PEILPECTION ZCOUIIT AND CAMP. Messis..G. Vining, Verner H. MURos, Delmore. and Ward*, lame Amy iedigrick, J. laidlaw, and Lydia Thompy.n.—And A CHLIILIN PAUL LYCII7II. ISTracinn. A SIIDLiiiARACK. Mean. Shore and Widdiroakb ,MI Henn& and Yen Len—And TUX DUES!! MOTTO. 'damn F echt•r, Shore. Brougham. and Kaymond Maas C. 'Leclerc% K. Terry, and lbworthy. BRITANNIA. Tam lemma. IHE WIDOW AND ORPHANS.—FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, leak Profaner hew s adaptation a Urekra SPBCTRAL ILLOSION.—And TYR RALADZITA. MOB NAT= AT LONDON 3=ol Tale DAT —Morelia Itt. Nes.....AANgros. lb. lON. IV-11011.10W—Al0oNa. U.S.• •AallnAms. 2b 680. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 2 FRANCE is not dead after all. Paris has not been bribed to silence or lulled to sleep. En couraged by the frequent promises of the EXPKILOR, the electors of the French capital have resolved to enter bodily the edifice which he has undertaken one day to crown with liberty. The voting yes terday and on Sunday was almost universal, and the result is the return of independent members of sufficient importance in numbers and talent to make the Corps Ligislatif something like a real Parliament. It was, perhaps, a small thing that M. TRIRRB should defeat M. DEVINCR in the second arrondissement, but M. Ds Paasioirr, by his injudicious Circulars, gives his triumph the air of a victory of the House of Canaan" over that of the BONAPARTIZI. We do not think the electors meant this, but the EYPEROIL will now probably see the necessity of controlling the political action of his too zealous servant. In the third arrondissement the eloquent M. Erma Ousvica received nearly twice as many votes, and in the fourth arrondissement M. PICARD more than twice as many votes as the Government candidate. It was in the fifth arrondissement, however, that the opposition candidates achieved their greatest success, M. Juan FAVRE having gained 18,000, and the Government candidate only 8,000 votes. If the ENSIIROR is the wise politician that many believe him to be, he will be able to draw advan tages from the readiness which the French liberals have thus shown to accept his institutions, and make the best of them. Tns discussion raised by Lord F.BUIVB motion in the House of Lords respecting the indiscrimi nate use of the Burial Service of the Church of Eastland proved of unexpected importance. The House entertained the subject under a proper sense of its own responsibilities, a considerable number of Peers of weight took part in the debate, the Bishops gave their opinions freely, and the end was that the Archbishop of CANTERBURY undertook, in the name of his brethren, to prepare a mode of dealinu with the question. The matter was presented to the Hones as a practical grievance of the clergy, though in reality it concerns everybody who desires to see religion maintained in honour. It often happens that the minister of a parish is called upon to bury the body of a person who has lived and died in scandalous immorality. As the Church, however, is practi cally without discipline, in ninety-nine cams out of a hundred it happens that such a person is not excommunicated, and the law will hold that be died in the communion of the Church. It is, therefore, the duty of the clergyman to bury him, if required to do so, with words which express the strongest assurance of his blessedness in another state of existence. This state of the law often places a minister in • situation of what we must call great hardship. It is his daily business to teach that this life is a prepara tion for an everlasting existence, and he may have at any moment to appear at a grave and in effect declare to hearers in a most susceptible state of mind that the man of gross and unclean life and he who tears GOD will rise alike to everlasting happiness. There is something very wrong here. Thousands of the clergy, many of them men of distinction, have petitioned to be relieved of this obligation, which is so oppressive that the Archbishop of CANTRESURY was induced to say last night in his place in Parliament that he would brave any penalties of the law rather than read the appointed service over • person who had died in wilful and cherished sin. This strong de claration appears to have somewhat shocked the LORD CHANCBLLON rightly jes/ous for the honour of the law. If we were disposed to mete to the Most Reverend Prelate with the measure which he and his right reverend brethren use to some others, we might represent the obligation of the clergy aa simply one of contract, and call on them in the name of common honesty to fulfil their bargain by obeying the law as it stands. But in this case the essen tial immorality of such an appeal would be appa rent. Far from reproaching the Archbishop with his warmth, we believe that moat persons will be of opinion that it is very honourable, and well be coming his sacred character. But then it must be confessed that the appli. cation of • remedy is a work of much difficulty. Various euggestions have been made, some of which would be attended with inconveniences greater than the existing eviL Such we may safely my would be the course recommended by the Bishop of LLANDA7F, who thinks that the difficulty might be met by prefixing an expla nation to the service, Mating that its language is not used with an individual application. This would be making matters much worse. There Ale already too many explanations and non- I' , pARD3 FIRST CLASS sad LONDON PRIZE WIDLLS. WATICIIISTOK sad BROODZIC OOLUSILTVI IB and JEW Fr r mtg. Ilianfaceery, 16, Menhette-dreet, Covent.-ganlee, W.C.,l4edon, N.B The iegebilatuseat Is clamed at 6in the evening, and on imardar as 1 o'clock. SPECIAL N9TlClL.7:l`ppi!nipm.iN. MirleFalfred Webb Miles), 73, Brook mi. Wee., liaaaverequara, ta prepared to subset for public approval all the NEW TIOUSF.R.I Pyriptlrk for Spring and Rummer wev, ulidel;1;11I batound In greater variety and better than ever. The continual remark of gentle men to their friends k Why DUE more than 16s. for your summer trauma EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. KUM removed from Boa& street Le 1869. THE EX,PRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1863. natural interpretations attaching to our religious • formularies, and it only confuses the moral per • of hearers to listen to the most solemn assurances expressed in the plainest English, and afterwards to find that they were not used in their obvious meaning. Everybody who has once heard the Burial Service read knows that its words are of individual application. Equally objectionable would be any proposal to give power to the clergyman to omit the words of hope from the service in his discretion. This, as the Archbishop of YORK forcibly and correctly observed, would be to con stitute some 13,000 or 14,000 clergymen judges of men's eternal salvation. That is an office which the clergy as a body do not aspire to, and which the country would not tolerate. We are not about to incur the risk of pre sumptuousness by urging any particular recom mendation on a subject the difficulties of which have been acknowledged by so many grave divines. We simply express what we are sure is the uni versal sentiment in saying that the Burial Service must be substantially preserved in all its marvel lous comfort and tenderness. We cannot commit our dead to the earth without hope. It is impos sible. It is not necessary. We say, with the Archbishop of YORK, better no service than a ser vice from which words of hope are excluded. But we submit that the difficulty which now weighs upon the clergy might be removed without weak ening the service as an instrument of consolation. Its efficiency in that character does not de pend on any assurance that one mortal may a:preen, either in his own name or that of a corporation, as to the particular condition of a fellow-creature called away from this world. Rather it depends on the directness with which I the mind under bereavement is led to the source of all comfort, to a contemplation of the infinite goodness of the ALMIGHTY. We are induced by this consideration to hope that when the Bishops are led to give their earnest and united attention to the matter, they will not find the difficulties surrounding it insu perable, and that before long they may be in a position to offer for the consideration of Parlia ment a measure which,while removing the grievance complained of, shall preserve the sublime service which has comforted us and our fathers, and trans mit it to be the solace of future generations in this world of change. gbt Qourt. BALMORAL, MAY 30. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, and attended by lady A. Bruce, drove out this afternoon. Primer Louise and Prince Arthur went out riding. The Duke of Athoie arrived at the Oast on a visit. The Be►. Oaird arrived at the Castle. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, rode on horseback yesterday morning. The Prince's of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, honoured Mr. Frith with a sitting at his studio at Pembridge Villas. Her Royal Higbee', attended by the Countess of Maoclea6eb3, went to Kew in the afterncoo, and visited the Dachau of Cambridge. Prince Leiningee arrived at Marlborough Home upon a visit to the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales, acoompanied by Prince Leiningem honoured Yr. James S. Westroaeott with a visit, as his studio in St, George's-road. His Royal Higbee" afterwarda went to the Hospital of the Grenadier Guards in Rocheater row, and visited the men injured at the recent railway 'widest. Their Royal Highnesses the Prime and Prinoess of Wales. aceoa3panied by Prince Leiningen, and attended by the Collate= of Macclesfield, and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, honoured with their presence last evening the performance at the Bijou Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre. The Judicial Committee d the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Madras, "Bitterns Nauchear v. the &minder of Shaysgungah " (part heard), wee concluded, and judgment wee reserved. The Lords present were the Lords Justices Height Bruce and Turner, Sir L. Peel, Sir E. Ryan, and Sir J. Colvile. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of British Columbia, Canada, and the Bahamas. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, Bermuda, and to the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands. We understand that the Queen, accompanied by the youthful members of the royal family and household, will leave Balmoral on Friday night for Windsor Oestle. It is the intention of her Majesty to travel in similar privacy ma wee observed on her last jemmy to the north. In all probability the Queen will not reside beyond • fort night at Windsor Cut* and then go to Osborne for a short residence, before going to Oesmaay. THE VISIT or THE PRINCE AND PAINCIDE or WAIN TO TR/ Circ.—Their royal highnesses have signified their intention of arriving at Guildhall at 9 o'clock, and it is seemly neccesery to say that on those occasions all visitors honoured with invitations are bound in strict politicises to be present before the hour fixed fm the arrival of the royal goads. At half-past 8 all approaches to Guildhall will be closed to the carriages of visitors until after the arrival of their royal highnemee. Immediately on the arrival of the Prince and Princess they will be oreducted to the dais, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Primers Mary, and other mem. bare of the royal family. At the toot of the dais the freedom of the City will be presented to his royal highness, enclosed in a mast of solid gold. This noble gift will be accompanied with an address, to whir.) hie royal highness will reply ; after which the ball will commence at half-past 9. The first supper will be served for the general guests soon after 12, I and the second at about 1. The whole of the decorations and arrangements are well in hand, and will, it is expected, be completed by next Saturday night. The Prince and Princess of Wales leave Marl borough House this morning for Fromnore Lodge, near Windsor. Their royal highnesses will remain out of town till Monday next. The Prime end Princess will attend the noes at Ascot oa Thursday in full ante, the Mader of the Queen's Bockhosinds appearing with his silver couplets, and the huntsmen and whippers-in in their state apparel. Last night a private performance by a company of distinguished amateurs took plans at the Bijou I'h:etre attached to the Opera House. The produce of the sale of Magna was devoted in aid of the " Priam. Mary's Fund, for providing nurses for the inmates of the Cambridge Asy lum." The Priam and Princess of Wales, the Dualism and Princess Mary of Cambridge, sad the Duke of Ounbridge, honoured the performance with their presence. The room was filled by some 300 of the elite of the fashionable world. The Duke and Duchess of NorthumberLind arrived at Northumberland House yesterday from passing the recess at Sion Home, where they have been receiving company. La atevening the Count and Countess de Fla nagan received at dieser h F 4041100, the Austrian Am boarder and the Countess d'Apponyi and the Coastal Paumgarten, the Countess Cowley and lady F. Wellesley. the Earl of Granville, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Cbel. see, Viscount St. Aoas, Has. Frederick Byng, Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, Captain Falba, Mr. Ellis, do. --- The Earl and Countess of Yarborough left town yesterday for their mat, Bit:Oglesby, LineaLubin., fora few days. $s ladyship's first ball will take plans oe Thais day, the 11th inst., at the family meagre in Arlington. dam& The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left town yesterday for Sowing-UR, beer dent, far the race week. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl of Glasgow, Colonel the Hon. Henry Pansies, to., will be the gas* of the noble earl and countess. Lady Egerton of Tattoo had an assembly but *togas, at her resider*, in St. Janesagnere. Pre vious to the assembly Lord and Lady Hiseton entertelned at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the Earl of Breeknork, View:eat Doak, Lord and Lady Cal thorps, the Hos. Miss (Nation's, Colonel sad lady Rosa °mills, Sir Hugh mad lady Hume Campbell, Sir laweenos Palk, Mr. R. Moucktos Maus, M.P., Mrs. While, el Woodlands, no. with the land forces from Baton Rouge attacked it from below. General Banks' movements in the Teohe country were expected to be the means of bringing to New Orleans 100,000 bales of oottou, which is quoted in that city 48 cents., and declining. A rumour was prevalent yesterday that General Hooker was falling back from the Rappahannock to the Potomac, for the better defence of Washing ton and Maryland, as there were signs of the Con federates preparing to cross into Maryland by way of the Upper Potomac. It is reported from Port Royal that three block ade runners from Charleston for Nassau have been I captured. INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 22, EVIINUM. Money easier. Gold 481 per cent. premium. Exchange on London : bankers' bills, 164. Violent fluctuations have occurred in the stock market during the last three days, caused by exces sive public speculation, but the market closes steady. New York Centrals, 124} ; Illinois, 1131 ; Erie, 381; Five per Cent. United States Bonds, 96 ; Biz per Cent. ditto, 107 i. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 50c. to 53c. Flour declining ; prices 100. lower. Wheat and corn good inquiry, with a decline of 2c. Provisions quiet. Coffee, nothing doing. Sugar and Molasses very firm. Crude Petroleum firm and advancing. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PAWS, Jun; 2. Intelligence received from the provinces states that MM. Berryer and Marie candidates of the opposition, have been elected for Bouches-du- RhOne, but it is doubtful whether M. Thies has also been chosen in that department. In the department of the Nord, MM. Plichon, lAmbrecht, and Kolb-Bernard have been elected. K Thiess has failed at Valenciennes, and the ballot has been resorted to in the 7th circumscrip tion. In Seine Infdrienre the government candidates have been elected, but the ballot has become neces sary in the 6th circumscription. K Betssihres has been elected at Strasbourg, obtaining 21,353 votes, and M. Barrot, 6.965. M. Dufaure has failed in two circumscriptions of the Charente Infdrieure, and in the first circum scription of the Gironde. The numbers were for M. Curd, 6,782 ; Cavertiyon, 6,992; Dufaure, 3,240. The ballot will be resorted to. At Lyons, M. Hdnon, candidate of the opposi tion, was elected. M. Thiera has also failed at Aix as well as at Valenciennes. All the opposition candidates have been elected in Paris, with the exception of the 6th district, in which the ballot will be required. The Conditutionnel, in an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrao, states that the candidates MM. Dufaure, Montelembert, Barrot, Passy, Merode, Dupont de l'Eure, L'Herbette, Glais, Barone, Kir drel, Jouvenel, Renneville, Freslon, Charamonde, Flavigny, St. Marc Girardin, de Civrao Bac, Jules Lssteyrie, Mortemart, Prevost Paradol, Victor Lefranc, Barthelemy St. HiHare, de Mornay, ' the Duke Decazes, and Gustave Beaumont, have failed to be elected. The writer continues:—" The success of the opposition list in Paris was for warded by the division produced in the ranks of the friends of the government by the attitude of the journal La France. But in all the departments the government candidates are triumphant." A letter has been published, addressed by the Minister of Public Worship to the archbishop and bishops who signed the memorandum recommend ing the electors not to abstain from voting. The minister censures this act as being in opposition to the obligation of the episcopate, and as an excess of clerical power against the state. The minister says, in conclusion :—" The government is firmly determined henceforth to prohibit the publication in the newspapers of any discussions which may have taken place among bishops assembled without legal authorisation." THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, TOM 2. The Russians are concentrating' troops at Kaliskie, in the districts of Louis and Lenczyks, where Colonel Sterpski commands the insurgent forces. The news of the victory gained by Orinski at Janow on the 28th is confirmed. On the 21st May, Albertynski defeated the Russians under Szuwatow, at Labanory, in Lithuania. THE POLITICAL TRIALS IN ROME. ROME, MAY 31. The political trials have continued daring the Lust two days. Chevalier Fausti spoke for two hours in his defence. The decision of the tribunal has not yet been made known to the public. The Kretz Zeitstag contains the following account of an incident which occurred during the late tour of the Crown Prince and Crown Prinoses of PM/LAS :-" A eaval. cede of mounted country people proceeded from the town of Jerichow (in Prussian &may), under the leadership of the president of the ministers, M. you Bismark-Schonbausee, who had called on the sous of the rich farmers of the vil lages of Fischbach and Schoobausen to take part in this demonstration. N. Bismark, mounted on a white hone, and visible from afar, led the cavalien, who were dressed in a kind of national costume, wearing as they did long blue 00114 and presented a vary remarkable appearance on their handsome brown horses. The horsemen came in full trot and in the best order, some 60 strong, over the dyke wall at Fiedsbeck—almost all the eons of the farmers in the villages on the lower Elbe serve in the cavalry of the guard—and then wheeled at the ferry-place so as to allow their royal bighorns to per them, giving a load hurrah as they did so. X von Bismark accompanied the prince and princess to the ferry. Their royal highnesses were everywhere re ceived with the heartiest demonstrations by the inha bitants." --- The Empress Eugenie recently received, as a pre sent from Venice, a charming gondola, brought by Count Areee, and intended for use on the lake at Fontainebleau. It is five metres (16 fk bin.) long, and is made of pear•tree wood blacked to imitate ebony, and ornamented with steel studs. In the middle, over the sesta, is a light wooden structure hung with a black woollen tissue fringed with red. It is managed by s single gondolier, and one has come with it from Venice, who speaks scarcely a word of French. In rowing, he stands in the after part of the boat, uses only one oar, and dap all the while according to the old Venetian custom. _ _ _ ----- The Phare de is ilfaache says :—" It appears cer- Min that the Emperor will skit Cherbourg about June 213, for the purpose of isappotiag the iroo-elad fleet, which will then be collected there. The frigates Couroune, Normandie, and Soiled's° are at preset in dock undergoing repairs, sad their officers and crews are to be changed or modified. We learn that the Cloire and Invincible are under orders to leave Toulon for Cherbourg. The number of iron-clad vessels will be six, se the Magenta is to come from Brost, and they will farm a squadron of which it is mid that Rigault de Clenouilly will have the cum mod. It is expected that these six vessels will perform evolutions in the presence of hie Majesty." King Ferdinand of Portugal has arrived in Paris, aad has paid a visit to the Emperor. The King, who tra vois iaeognito, purposes prang a fortnight in the capital, mad probably will pay a visit to &gland. The Prince of Orange leder at Paris, sad has visited the Emperor. Between May 16 and June 13, a period of twenty. eight days, 16 steamers are advertised to leave America for Englead, or four every seven days. lALTAIT INVIIIIGENCE. AMERICA. (izuTsi's Tnagzum.) (Per the Oity of New York.) NEW YORK, MAT 23. President Lincoln has changed Vallandigham's sentence of imprisonment in Fort Warren to transportation beyond the Federal lines. The New York Evening Post says :—" The ad ministration is legally bound by congressional en actment to hand Vallandigham over to the civil tribunals, and, as it cannot be supposed that the administration desires to escape the demands of the law, the Post expects that Vallandigham will be handed over to the civil authorities." Vallandigham's arrest still causes the greatest excitement throughout the Union. Various reports are current that President Jeffer son Davis is preparing to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania early in the summer, and that for this purpose troops are being withdrawn from the sea coast to reinforce General Lee. The Pennsyl vania authorities are urged to organise a militia to be prepared for such contingency. Ten Federal regiments are reported to have ad vanced on Cumberland to invade East Tennessee. The Southern papers think the mountains will prove an insuperable barrier to their advance. At Suffolk two Federal regiments fired upon each other by mistake, killing and wounding a large number. Two companies of Federal mounted rifles were surprised and badly cut up by the Con federates. The new coloured regiment organised in Massa chusetts has been ordered to Port Royal. The New York Tribune calls upon President Lin coln to issue a retaliation proclamation to protect coloured troops. The Confederate Colonel Parker, commanding in Jackson County, Missouri, has informed General Blunt that if another Confederate citizen or soldier was executed without process of law, he should execute five Federals. General Blunt re plied that all rebels or their sympathisers, includ ing females, aiding directly or indirectly the rebels in the counties bordering Missouri, would be des troyed or expelled his district. All persons found iu arms in the Kansas district would be summarily executed when captured. The Bic/mond Sentinel says it is reported that two Federal of bad been detained, with a view to retaliation for General Burnside hanging two Confederate officers. The Confederates have captured the despatch boats Emma and Arrow, used to carry despatches from Newborn to the North by way of Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. This capture cuts off the Northern internal communication with Newborn. The Southern journals contain a rumour that Admiral Farragut has burned his flagship, the Hartford. Thomas Francis Meagher's resignation has been accepted. Only half a regiment remains of the whole Irish Brigade. The New York municipality has proposed to raise a million dollars to pay the exemption fees of drafted working men. The steamer Eugenie has been captured off Mo bile with arms from Havana. The British schooner Linnet has been captured. The political condition of affairs wears a threat ening aspect, owing to the repressive measures of Federal military appointees. The exasperation of the people throughout the western states is in- creasing, and denunciations of administration measures by the democracy in large northern cities are becoming louder. It is freely asserted that the administration purposes to nuke the profession of political opinions the test of loyalty. The New York World says :—" If free speech and free elections can be guaranteed, it is our duty to await the next presidential election for the re storation of violated liberties. Bus if political action is to be made a penal offence, there is the danger that the aroused indignation of the people will not await the election which, without free discussion, would be an insulting farce." A democratic state mass meeting has been held at Indianopolis amid considerable excitement. Speeches were made denouncing Vallandigham's arrest and the war measures of the administration. A military guard was kept patrolling the city in the vicinity where the meeting was held. Forty or fifty arrests were made for carrying concealed weapons and shouting for Jefferson Davis. The excursion ists in several trains which left Indianopolis at night fired upon the soldiers. The home military authorities stopped the trains, made numerous arrests, and took 500 revolvers from the passengers. The newspapers in all the western cities are now under military supervision, and in Indiana free press discussion is entirely suppressed by General Haman. Arrests in Washington are becoming more numerous. General Butler is in Washington, and it is sup posed he will immediately receive a command. The City of New York takes out 158,600 dollars and 3,3861. in specie. LATEST. NEW YORK, MAT 23. The accounts from Jackson and Vicksburg are so confused and conflicting that it is impossible to judge what the situation really is at those im portant posts. It is certain that General Grant occupied Jack son on the 14th, and, after destroying nearly the entire city, evacuated it the following day. General Johnston officially reports that a portion of General Grant's army attacked General Pem berton on the 16th, near Edward's Depot, and that after nine hours' fighting, Pemberton was ,compelled to fall back behind Big Black River. Mobile papers estimate General Pemberton's loss in this battle at 3,000 and the enemy's loss at three times as much. Confederate General Tilghman was killed. It is stated that General Grant, after leaving Jackson, would proceed to Haines Bluff, and secure the Confederate trans ports to prevent the Confederates escaping up the Yasoo River. The latest Murfreesboro' despatches state that the Confederates have evacuated Vicksburg and Pemberton, and marched out to attack Grant in the rear whilst Johnston pushed him from the direction of Jackson. Other reports say that General Grant had taken possession of the most important railroad bridge across the Big Black River, cutting off the Confe derate communication with Vicksburg. Still another report says that General Grant hu been driven from Jackson and Port Gibson, and that Johnston betaken possession of the Jackson and Vicksburg Railroad. It is reported that the Fede rah have occupied Warreutown and destroyed Greenville, Mississippi. The Federal mortar fleet has again bombarded Port Hudson from below without material result. New Orleans Northern correspondents think that Port Hudson is by this time evacuated, as General Banks was to attack it from above with the land forces and Porter's fleet, whilst Fermat's fleet EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUZ OWM PABD3, MONDAY Evarnia. All the interest in the elections is now a question of figures, and no figures are known yet. Yon will get them by telegraph. The most remarkable thing at the polls in Paris was the extreme quiet that prevailed, and the absence of anything like a crowd. The Bourse was weak. Rente fell 10c. for crab, and sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 20c. and 69fr. 25c. Mobilier fell sfr. A deputation from the Aborigines' Protection Society of London had the honour of presenting the subjoined address to the Emperor at the Tuileries yesterday : To ha Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111., the Emperor of the Fieeeb. May it please your Majesty,—Before venturing to ad dress your Majesty in relation to your Arab mbjecta, it is necessary to state that the Aborigines' Protection Society, I in whom name we speak, was founded by the late Sir ' Thomas Fowell Buxton upwards of a quarter of a century ago, for the purpose of protecting the rights of the native inhabitant' of the British colonise—rights which have bees ' too often sacrificed or imperilled by the aggressive nature of modern colonisation, and by a want of tact and meths tion on the part of European rulers in governing races which, although only semi-civilised, have generally a keen sense of injury, and a just idea of what is due to them as the aboriginal proprietors of the soil. Although our attention as an English society ham been directed more particularly to the condition and treatment of the various native populations of the British empire, we have taken a deep interest in the feebler races of mankind wherever they have been brought into contact with men of Europe►n blood. Accordingly, we have from time to time watched with lively anxiety the progress of French ooloni- Nation in Algeria, with especial reference to the Arabs, so many thousand' of whom are numbered among your Majesty's subjects. This being the case, it was with unfeigned pleasure that we perused your Ma jesty's letter to the Governor-General of Algeria dated February 6, in which you laid down prin ciples that reflect glory upon your Majesty's rule, and do honour to the age in which we live. Yon state that on the northern shores of Africa you regard yourself as the sovereign, not so much of • French colony as of an Arab kingdom ; and that you desire to mare that ancient people from the tate of the Indiana of America, and to secure to them the enjoyment of their lauds by au indefeasible title. Magna Charta was not in a truer sense the foundation of the national liberties of England than is your Majesty's letter to his Excellency the Din de Malakoff the charter of Arab rights. That remarkable expression of your Majesty's just and enlightened views, coupled with the measure based thereon, which has sine. been submitted to, and passed by, the French Senate, cannot fail to consolidate the loyalty of the Arabs, promote their settlement and growth in civilisa tion, and be the surest pledge of the future paste of the country. . . . . These being the sentimenta we entertain, we humbly desire, on behalf of the society we repreeent, to express the profound gratitude and admiration with which your Majesty's benignant policy towards the Arabs has inspired us, and to ewer the confident hope that its results will be satisfactory, no less to the great French nation than to these primitive tribes whose humbler destinies are likewise entrusted to your Majesty's guidance. . . His Majesty, in reply, said that he reoeived the address with much pleasure, and that it was satis factory to him to find that his efforts to improve the condition of the Arab people were appreciated in England. THE MURDER OP 4 WIPE IB THE CITYHOAD. INQUE3T.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, Mr. John Humphreys, one of the Middlesex coroners, reamed at the Durham Arms Tavern, Murray-etreet, City-road, the inquiry respecting the death of Hannah Webb, aged 40 years ' who was alleged to have be murdered by her husband u nder circumstances of great tim id: l %6rd appeared on behalf of the commissioners of • . . police to watch'ibe mac. Deceased was the wife of a dairyman residing at No. 3, Crossetreet, City-road. From the medical evidence of Mr. H. S.. Simpson, which was alone taken on the previous occa sion, it appeared that on last Tuesday morning deceased was found lying on the bed, dead and cold. She was dreamed. Her face, arms, and chest were frightfully bruised and injured. Death bad resulted from rupture of the left lung, there being a corresponding mark of violence externally. The brain was congested, from injuries to the skull. The Coroner, upon taking his seat, said that a very extra ordinary incident bad taken place. Upon the last occasion the proceedings were adjourned in order to procure the at- I of the accused, and the inspector (Webster) who had the management of the case for the police authorities stated that he would be to-day (Tuesday) brought up before the magistrate, and that be could previously be pro duced at this court in the morning. It now appeared, however, that the prisoner had been soddenly taken before the magistrate yesterday and committed, so that there was no power to have him brought before the present court. The whole transaction was an unn piece of duplicity, the object of which he (the Corc ec T r ier could not uudentand. Was Inspector Webster present to offer any explanation ! Mr. Waller, coroner's officer, said that he believed the inspector was not present at that moment. The Coroner said that be held in his hand a letter from the Secretary of State, in which it was stated that the pri soner should be produced. That was now impossible. Inspector Webster here entered the court and said that be had just been to the governor of Newgate, who would not give up the prisoner, as be had been committed. The case had been adjourned till to-day from the police court, and witness could not say why he was brought up yesterday. The Coroner said that be believed the books of the police court would show that to be so, but the whole circumstances of the transaction should e the subject in; airy. The evidence of George Jrunes, 6, Radcliffe-row, and of Mrs. Morris Bradfield was then taken. The hitter witness detailed the complaints made to her by the deceased of the brutal conduct of the prisoner, and the threats and per sonal violence which he offered the poor woman in witness's presence. Mrs. Elvin gave similar testimony. Both heard him repeatedly threaten to strangle her. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against James Webb. The Coroner then handed his warrant to Waller, the officer of the court, for the detention in Nougats of the accused until after his trial at the next seanona of the Central Criminal Court. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock, on Tuesday, the 9th instant. In the memorial to the Prince Consort in the Royal Horticultural Gardens, the Prince's figure stands on • circular pedestal, at the four comely of which are four seated figures in bronze—Europe, Asia, Africa, and /unities. The pedestal is enriched by polished granite columns, with bronze capitals, and the amount of ornamentation or variety in the architectural features of the pedestal is entirely owing to the suggestions and improvement' added by the Prince Consort himself to the original design. The Friona's figure, it may be remembered, has been substituted for that of bar Majesty, or rather, a figure of Britannia, having the feature, of the Queen, which may be seen on the terrace just behind the memorial It is understood that her Majesty will pay a visit to the Royal Horticultural Gardens on the 9th, the day before the ceremoniaL Lord Coventry has left the Hotel Bristol, at Paris, for London. IL &rile, Esq., the owner of The Ranger, winner of the great prise of Paris, has left the same hotel for England. A letter from St. Helena, of the 27th April, state that the Emperor Napoleon L's ancient residence of Old Souse, continue to be the object of numerous pil grimage'. Meet of the officers and passengers belonging to meads touching at the island visit that celebrated spot. In one day aa many as 60 persona of all ranks, in spite of the dirdenze and the difficulty of procuring conveyances, went to Longwood and incribad their names on the reglidin. This morning ten despatches, addressed by Lord Hobart to Earl Russell, on Turkish finance, the first bring dated May 20, 1862, and the last Dec. 10, were issued from the parliamentary printiog.of6os. During the American war the Confederates have fitted-out 17 privateers, 13 of which have been destroyed. They have captured 106 Federal merchantmen and de stroyed two millions sterling worth of property. CATCHING ♦ TAILTAR.—M. L6vy, the government candidate for the sth cirownecription of Paris, convened • public electoral meeting on May 30, which was attended by 2,000 people. No such large meeting would have bee• tolerated on the initiative of any independent c•ndidab, The meeting, after listening patiently to Y. Levy's speech, and his answers to anent questions put to him, voted by aeolemation that be was no man for them, and broke up with the ay of Five Jula Fenn/ CITY OF LONDON RLICTION.-(THIS DAY.) The election of a member of parliament fur the City of Leedom to fill the war usey caused by the death of Mr. Weetern Wood, took plus at noon, at the Guildhall, In consequence in active o pn. fo f rog the gorgeous thedecorrtioption of theirnswhichar now Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the usual platform has been removed, sad the bent pas erected for the royal guests served as a dais. This attendance was not so numerous as at City elections generally, owing, no doubt, to the almost certainty that there would be only one candidate, and to the fact that the views of that candidate are in accordance with those of the majority of the electors. At 12 o'clock the Sheriffs of the City of London, Alder. mu James Lawrenoe sad Mr. Hugh Jon.., appeared on the platform. There were also present the Common Serjeant, Mr. W. R. Crawford, M.P., Mr. Alderman Salonooes, 31. P., Mr. Oregue, M.P.. Alderman Humphrey, Alderman Water. low, Mr. Gamiott, Sir Anthony Rothschild, tee. The tonal formalities having been observed, Mr. Prteecorr proposed Mr. George J. Goschen as a fit and proper person to represent the City in parliament. He said he was acquainted with Mr. Goechen before that gentleman had any intention of entering parliament, sod he oould confidently recommend him to the electors. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Goschen was a liberal from conviction ;he had a stating belief in the deuce of the human race, and he would do his beat to promote it both morally and socially. He was in favour of religions, political, sod commercial liberty. (Cheers.) Whatever he promised he would do his best to fulfil. He had proved himself a good scholar, and he would soon take high rank among our legislators. He was, in short, worthy to follow is the reps of Mr. Grote and of Earl RusselL (Cheers.) Mr. Gusiorr seconded the nomination of Mr. Goschen, and sulugised that gentleman in terms similar to those of the proposer; adding that it was the merits of Mr. Goschen that had prevented a glimmering opposition from developing Itself into action. There being no other candidate, Alderman and Sheriff Lowrance, amid loud cheers, de clared Mr. Goschen duly elected. Mr. 006 CHEN then addressed the electors. He said be was proud to stand in • position which had been occupied by so many distinguished men. He should have hesitated on personal grounds to a=ept this trust, but he felt bound to obey the call made upon him. The liberal party not having been able to find a liberal candidate of the pest had turned to one of the future, and he could not refuse their invitation. Although he might as yet be unable to deal with political questions, he would endeavour to take his part in commercial ones. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's policy would have his support, and be bsd the young man of outlandish name, as he had been called, would satisfy the electors of London. (Cheers.) The term radical bad been applied to him. If to vote in favour of liberal measures was to be a radical, he accepted that epithet, (Cheers.) The liberal party wished to admit the working cheese to the suffrage whenever it i could be done safely, while the conservative pa r ty were opposed to such admission, and that was the greet difference between them. The spectacle of America had been pointed to as showing the evil of representative insti tution", but be contended that the conduct of the working classes in the north under so much proem taught • very different lemon. (Cheers.) He entirely sp. proved of the foreign policy of Lard Palmerstoo. (Cheers.) He thought the interest' of the church, as waU a• of the country, required that church rates should be abolished. (Hisses.) Would not those who blued support the church if rates were abolished! (Hear, hear.) Hehad confidence in the church notwithstanding the poitia of church rates. As to the ballot he should support it, not because he thought the ascendancy of the liberal • party required it, but because constituencies generally wee in favour of it, and had • right to protection. (Hear, hear.) He concluded by saying be should do his beet to prove him. self not unworthy of the high trust which had been reposed in him, and that trust would be discharged loyally, with courage, and, he hoped, with anocess. (Chasm.) Mr. W. R. CALVITORD moved • vote of thanks tc the sheriffs, and in doing so congratulated both the liberal and conservative electors on the choice which bed been made. On behalf of himself and the other old member, for the City of London he thanked the electors for having sent them such a colleague. Mr. G. Moore seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. . _ Alderman and Sheriff LAWIUNCX returned thank; and thin terminated the proceediap. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.-(THIS I)AY.) This afternoon the forty-fifth half-yearly meet ing of the above company was held at their offices in Leaden hall-street, Mr. Altonl3oll in the chair ; when the follow ing report was read and agreed to : " The present report relates to the half-year only ; and it may be mentioned, for the information of any new share holders, that in conformity with the deed of settlement, amount' and financial statement+ are submitted at the manual meetings of the company held in December. The Company's Fleet. —The premot Mathias. and particulars of the tonnage and hone-power of the vessels composing the company's fleet, are shown as usual in the tabular statement mte i s t i to the report. Since the last annual meeting, the and Careatic have been completed, and have each made • voyage to Alexandria and heck, with satisfactory re sults. The Rangoon was launched on the 4th of April, and the building of the Golconda, Delhi, &rods, and Syria is progressing rapidly. Paddle-wheel vessels being most suitable for the line between Marseilles and Alexandria, the directors have contracted for • new ship of this description to reinforce that service. The hull of the vessel, to measure about 2.000 tons register, is being one. strudel by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Com pany; and the contract for the engines, of 450 horse power, has been taken by Messrs. Ramie and Co. The ship has been named the Rhoda. The small steamship Union has been sold on advan tageoua terms in China. Loss of the Colombo.— The directors regret that they have to report the loss of one of the company's first-class steamers on the Calcutta and Suez line. The Colombo was wrecked on the Island of Minicoy, in the Arabian Sea, on the 19th November last, while on her voyage from Point de Gallo to Aden, with the pse sengera, mails, and cargo from India, China. and Australia. It is with a feeling of deep thankfulness the directors are enabled to state that all the passengers were landed in safety ; although, owing to the nature of the coast, and the state of toe weather, the ship was irretrievably injured, sad filled very shortly after she struck. The circrunstances the wreck subsequently became the subject of rori inquiry, under the authority of the Board of Trade, which resulted in the acquittal of the commander and officers, as was fully reported in the newspapers at the time. The amount et which the Colombo will steed in the company's books at the end of the financial year, namely, about 65,0001., will be debited to the Proprietors' Under writing Account.' The Moolten has taken the place of the Colombo, on the Calcutta station. and the following particulars may be interesting in connexion with this sub ject. The inteligence of the loss of the Colombo was received in England on the sth of December. The Meehan was immediately ordered out, end was des patched from Southampton on the 24th idem ; she reached Calcutta on the 4th of March, namely, in 70 days, and brought to Suez the India, China, and Australian mails, which were delivered in Loudon on the 16th of May. The Postal Service.—lt was stated in the last annual report, that the directors had submitted • tender for a fortnightly line of steamers between Bombay and Aden, pursuant to advertisements from the secretary to the Post-office, but that at the date of that report no reply had been received. They have, however, since been informed by letter front the Postmaster-General, that the government ' are not prepared to take any further steps at the present time in this matter.' The board have been recently requested by the Post. office to state the terms on which they would be willing to double the existing mail service between Sydney, Mel bourne, and Point de Gallia under the general conditions of the current contract ; and they have accordingly made • proposal which they have reason to believe is sans' factory to the home government, and will be equally so to the colonies concerned. As Australia cootributes one half of the subsidy, the tender has to be submitted to the approval of the colonial authorities before an arrangeniert can be concluded. The Transit through Egypt.—Although the transit has not formed the subject of a paragraph in every report, the directors have never relaxed their endea vours to obtain the introduction of improvements in that most important part of the overland route. The announce ment of the accession of his Highness Ismail Pasha to the Vicerovalty of Egypt having been almost immediately fol lowed by the report that at the reception of the consular body his highness expressed hie determination to devote all his energies to the prosperity of the country sad to the development of Ma internal wealth, it appeared to the directors that • favourable opportunity was afforded for strengthening those commercial relations which exist between the government of Egypt and the company. They accordingly appointed • deputation from the Weld to proceed to Egypt, to present an address of con gratulation to his highness co his accession, and to express their hope that the improvement of the transit would be regarded by him as a measure of importance. The deputation was received by the Viceroy with every mark of friendly consideration, and a report of the cert. roomy, with the reply made by his Highness to the address, is appended hereto. The directors are happy to state that the commercial operations of the half-year have been sibs• factory, and that the financial position of the company enables them to recommend that an additional payment of per cent. be made, with the usual half-yearly dividend of 3 percent. They think it probable that it will be more con• verdant to the proprietors to receive this payment at present than to have it postponed until the close of the year, when the dividend from the ordinary income is usually supple mented by any profit that may accrue on the proprietors ez.derwritieg account. The warrants for the half year end ing 31st March last will aocordingly be calculated at the rata of 5 per cent. on the paid-up capital, and they will be par able. free of 10001:116 tax, es 0/94 012 and after the 24th of June." I Some swage t job tl so to tl teed at bid beta eadantal }met th bet i s a is #ball "Mr. - 6 - , to DIOVII irlikl t te r i lima of sat. 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