The Express. — London, England, 1863-04-30 00:00:00

TROITSZRS.—SpeciaI attention ia called to the NEW sraiNo GOODS, and gentlemen who do not mind fair price for • gaud pair of trotuiers can depend on oaterLl and patterns that cannot to excelled. at HAMILTON and IC itiprows, TAILORS, lea strand (*write Ezetor Hall). SPECIAL NOTICE-TO GENTLEMAN. . 01 giiiiiF(Adiria — Wei,i;14160, 73, Brook street, amoral...quart, is prepared to submit tar public approval at I. NEW TROVAILBII pa-ryAsa _ for Spring and Summer gear, which will be found In puttee variety and better than ever. The continual remark of gentle. men to their friends is, Why pay more than lga toe your ouramer trousers / EVERYBODY KNOWS Ilr. YILES removed from Bond age*, In ISM HARMONIUMS. —NEW MODEL. CRAMER. BEAU, and WOOD, RR. Rearnt,4l/est. raPERA, FIELD, and RIFLE GLASSES. NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S DOUBLE ACHROMATIC GLASS, poseesslng great rower, complete In ease, 31s. and 43. Bent on receipt of poet-office ord..r. —I, natton.gorden . IM, Regent-street and Crystal Palace, Sydenham. TN FUN THIS WEEK, Prins One Penny, IN Lord Adolphus Frederick Charles William Vane Tempest, M. P. Our Prize Faure The Bridal Presents at South Kensington. The Patrician Publican. Comte Mamma and Diary, de. Now reedy, handsomely bound in insolent& cloth. elk price 4s. dd. ; post paid. THE THIRD ITALY-YEARLY VOLUME of FUN. with numerous &gratings by talented artists, and articiet by distinguished writent. The First and Second Volumes. uniform with the third, on ale. eo Yketsteed Eft, erpreoo. TO 0011111.711YONDLN19. Avortinonenta Intended for " Tho &prone London Eventing Paper, 111112 t Do si Os cam 10, ltooverlsoosoot, 0 7 Two o'clock on Oho day oe panlkation. WXAM= Tats Emma, STILL WATERS sox DEEP. Mews. A. Wigan, Chippendale, and Barren ; Mesdames Angel and A. Wigan.—BUCKSTONE AT HOUR—And BORROWING A HUSBAND. Maus. Howe and Compton ; Mee Marla Mania 1.11210E8g8. Tine Elmira°, AIIII010:11113YD. imam Dolby and Delmore Mu A. &tied ao4 Mho Bandana°. - KILUNG TIM e. Mr. Geom. Yining and Mum Amy Sedgwict.—Aud BKAUTIFUL MAIDEIL Mimes Oliver, Howard, tiadadreth, and Murray. LYCIUM. Tim EVI3IIIO. A SUDDEN ATTACX. Yea4a Shore and Wkklicomb ; Mum &wade sad lira las.—Aad THE DUKES MOTTO. Mesas. Pechter, Shore. Brovelsam, sad Haymond Mass C. Lodereq, K. Terry. sod Elswarlap. BRITANSI t i, Tan Ilromm THI WIDOW AND ORPHANS—FATTN, HOPI. AND CHARITY. wML Pratt/Nor Pepperi Adavistioa of Yr. DReirs's APICTRAL ILLIIBIOI7.—THZ D OF CARDS —AM THI FARMED CITY. HIGH IFATAD AT LIMBOS 11111DOL TO DAT —Monde& la. 41.6.....Ahar0wa5. OR On. IVmoasow—Morulah, it Ha. ..Abstoosa. 0.. Um. LONDON, THURSO. Y, APRIL 30. Pr is a great pleasure to speak of a fine seamen again. The topic is always an animating one ; and in the present state of public ►ffairs everywhere, nothing can be more refreshing than to turn our thoughts to the fields, and pastures, and orchards, where there is prosperity and promise, whatever gloom there may be in the political and social aspects of the world. Before the three last wet seasons there was great and reasonable alarm about the shrinking of the watersprings, which had gone on for several years. Without much present . _ _ BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN INGLAIND. This morning s blue book, containing the 24th sauna report of the Regietrar-Cialersl o births, deaths, sad 'marriages is Englineduring the year 1861, was issued. It is dated the 31st al harsh leek The merviare in 1861 were less numerous than they bad been in either of the two previous yews. The births were more summons than they bad ever been in England, and, though the year was healthy, the deaths were more numerals than they had bees. The peeress of population in England in the last quarter of a century may be stated roundly, and in such a manner, that it may be remembered without difB - Each quinquennial period added a million or a little men to the &concuss. lo 1836-40 the popelation was rising through its sixteenth million ; in 1841-5 through its NOVell teen& ; in 1846-50 through its eightseeth ; in 1851-55 through its nineteenth ; and is 185640 through its twentieth sallies. In the middle of 1861 it is estimated to have reached 90,119,496. The English !liberation now compre hends within its mops a pepalation greater by the present population; of Landes and the three Mama of Yorkshire werlined, than it was when the national system was esta blished in MT. drought, the springs failed earlier each season, so that the watering of cattle in the eastern counties became a serious anxiety and ex pense in the autumn, and the amount of live stock diminished instead of increasing. When the rains at last resumed their ordinary course of being plen tiful from October to January, we rejoiced in the refilling of the springs ; but we had presently too much of the good thing. The story of the three cold and spoiled seasons which we have now left behind us needs no repeating here. We are re minded of it but too plainly by the severe though temporary decline of the fortunes of Ireland, and by the miserable quality of the wheat of last season, discovered in the threshing to be worse than the least sanguine of judges predicted. The last winter was watched with extreme anxiety ; and a strange winter it was. On the whole, the autumn wheat was got into the ground favourably; the warmth of the winter threatened to bring it too forward; but, fine as the weather has been, the autumn wheat is rather backward than grossly for ward, while the spring-sown corn is in the most promising condition. There are some irregularities in the progress of the lemon. The cuckoo was heard as early per haps as it ever is. The small birds have paired early, and domestic fowls promise a profitable year, from the plenty of eggs and the large and strong broods they began to show weeks ago. We heard of an almost untimely show of apricot and peach blossoms, and of the fears for their fate when the frosts of early April came. We hear also of the general leafing of trees being early over whole counties, as well as the spring grass. E'.mewhere, the larches have had the charm of the spring green all to themselves ' • and even now the sycamore and chestnut, beech and birch, are almost as bare as the oak and ash. This is not unacceptable, while the grass is forward, because it is a sign of the security of the fruit in those districts. All fruit promises to be plentiful, if it is not early ; the grasses are abundant, and the young stock of all sorts stout and fine. There was plenty of March dust in its season, and April has been the month of warm sunsb 4 ue and sharp showers, which it ought to be, and thus the soil has had every advantage for the sowing of the root-crops, which become, from year to year, more important to us in comparison with our wails, or at least with wheat. From the far no-th of Scotland we hear of bright anticipations about the oats, from the appearances of the sowing; and from Cornwall tidings are sent of the fine promise of the market gardens in the mining dis tricts, encouraging the hope of cheaper and better vegetables than for some years past. It is somewhat enlivening to see the pleasure seams of the country and the seaside lengthened by a month at the beginning ; but it is more cheering still to think of an early haymaking, by which the delays and dangers of the July rains are avoided —those rains which, in some parts of the country, defer the final haymaking till August. On the whole, the prospect seems to be good in other countries as well as our own, wherever the ravage of war does not interfere with the tillage of the soil. In France there has been some partial destruction by floods and gales, but, generally speaking. the season seems to be genial. In Poland there surely must be much Ism tillage than usual of the vast plains usually green, at this season, with springing grain. From Russia it is too early to have any serviceable agricultural news. In the Western States of America the rural residents are actually consum ing their corn harvest of last year as fuel. This is done on calculation—a given weight or measure of corn being worth less in the market than the same quantity of coaL Year by year the produce farther exceeds the means of transport and of sale. At the very time, therefore, that in the Confederate States the citizens are forbidden to grow more than a certain infinitely small propor tion of cotton, and are ordered to grow food, the Western farmers are turning their attention to the production of cotton and flax over wide tracts which hare hitherto been devoted to corn. There in 1861 there wen enrolled of persons who married, 82,000 mom than had bens registered in 1841, twenty years Wars ; 91,000 died more then in 1841 ; and 184,000childreo were born more then in the came year. The &garnets number of IMO Intend in 1861, is of pumas who lied married, who had been born, or who had stied, is 1,468,932. On an average of twenty-four ream 1,639 mesons were married, 3,318 children were bore, and 2,299 ponces died to 100,000 of the population ; but in 1861 the respective numbers were 1,628, 3,461, and 2,163. Marriages were rather below the standard mark of activity. The birth rate was high. The death-rote was below the average. The excess of births over deaths in the year was 261,292. The 'injunction of a high Meth-rate with a low death-rate awed that amens to be peak, than the usual amount, which in the peewit siege of the population may be stated as nearly 245,000. About 30,0:0 English emigrants left their country for foreign and subsist settlements in 186 L TENTH REPORT OP THE CHARITY COM MISSIONERS. This morning the report of the Charity Com missioners for the pant year was inasd. The number of mend applications made to the board duties the year was 1,234 ; in the previous year the number was 1,179. No appeal from their orders, which are commonly without say east, has yet been prosecuted. "We are ociafident." say the annoissioners, "that the voluntary resort to this is* and nesponsive jurisdiction m►y be relied upon for producing progressively a large improvement in the edmi• nistratioa of endowed charities, notwithstanding that our inability to exercise massy of the moat important powers vested in us by the Charitable Trusts Act, 1860, except ' upon the applicatioo of the trustees only, in cane of chari ties poisoning more them an inoossiderable Monne, or of prescribed parties in other OEMs, involves an important limitation of those beneficial provision. If the legislature should think fit to remove hereafter or relax that restric- I lion, we humbly consider that past advantage would result from that change of the law to the objects of the charities." The annual transfers to the official trustees have propos. Mealy increased, The sum of 410,1311. 10e. 2d. transferred to them during 1862 is the largest reached in any year. The amount of stock standing in the name of the official trustees of charitable funds, on the 31d of December, was 1,379,2271. Os. W., which is apportioned among 2,647 cha rities, and the onnaindoners reps. that " the duties con nected with the apportionment and regular remittance of the dividends on these sums, which amounted in the year 1862 to an aggregate amount of 39,2331. 9s. 6d. to the ad ministering trustees, though much complicated by the numerous champs among the recipients, which are of must frequent occurrence, have been discharged with pan exac titude ►nd efficiency." The first day's sale of the Bicknell collection of water-odour drswiop realised yesterday 7,4651. This Jay the celebrated merles et Yorkshire dtalriap, painted for the late Sir Beery PUkingtos by J. M. W. Turner, LA., will be included In the sal& The investigation into the circumstance; con sented with the death et Kim Amelia S. E. Coq, of Grow hill, near Ballymena, adjosreed on the 20th of Yu* wu to Imre been resumed as Tuesday UM, but no meeting wee held, tali it bra bees alielany unsound that the handl- Oise is " adjoemeed aim die." The prossentime avian Dr. Courteous, tad his bewskarpor has sot, however, bees abeadonsl. Yery WAteemey remains in dame custody, sad Dr. Courtney bee hews required to resew boil for hie appieranos. _ _ - COUNTY 01 , MIDDLE= SNOOTIWO CONYITTEZ.— Tim Pad of Grorveoor, M.P., Theouat Ramlagh, Via:oast Bary,ll.P., Lord Bmbiteek Lientenant-Coloasl the Hoe. C. kiladsay Lienteseat.Coimel Brewster, Major Captain 8. Plod Pam, Lientemot Merriest, sad Mr. Fee. toe hankie hese appdated a oommittas to draw up rules sad reitulailoos far the souggaiitaos for the for medal gime by the Notional Bile Associatioa, and for prime gives to be competed for by Middlemen Voluoteers. request that me trlbotlore to the Middlesex Prise Fluid be mat to the bo. secretary at thecae@ of the Nailmal Rifle damodatiom 11, Pall-taall Fmk &W., er be paid to tie amen et the Kid d:Mem Prise Pend. at Messes. Panama, Hewer* sad Co., 1. Pall mall Feat, B.W. The Mamma of falielmem, Lord-Lieutenant of Middleman, has headed the submaiptioa list with 1001. THE EXPRESS, TLIIIRSDA.Y will always be more wheat grown there for Europe • -- - ale Courte than will ever reach Europe, and °ins (maize) for man and beast all over the Free States ; W 1 ii . 0.48713‘ Arun. 29. 1 " 0 The Queen, accompanied by the Prince/es Louis and whatever fibres for textile manufactures offtm "yesterday d ye t afternoon , CM be raised over and above this will be • bless- Ge nand the Hon. A. N. Hoed on h a tacl ct e .i}dsd b 7 Major ing abroad and at home, and a far better use of Prince Mired and Priam' Helena, attended by Lady the soil than growing fuel in any other form than Caroline Barrington, Sir W. Hosts. sad Major Cowell, re wood. It is too early yet to learn what sort of I turned to Windsor Castle today from Buckingham Palace. spring the Americana will have, for in the Northern I The Queen Marie Amelia, accompanied by the Count of Paris and the Duke of Chartres, Matted the Queen. States May is hardly spring ; but we must hope that it will be as favourable as our own, for the sake of the crops which are to sustain armies, and the plenty which is needed to compensate for the waste of war ; and, not least, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of fugitive negroes who have cast themselves on the Free States for sub sistence, employment, and comfort. It will be interesting to watch through a year of favourable weather the operation of the changes which are taking place in our rural economy from social causes not immedi ately connected with agriculture. The new institution of cheap dining-halls may have other consequences than those directly con templated. By the spread of this institution we may attain the long-desired object of extending the consumption of animal food downwards, till every person who earns his food may have meat to his bread and potatoes. If this should happen, the conversion of wheat lands to pasture and green cropping will go on much faster than at present, though the process is at pftent • signal incident in our condition. GoM meat dinners, will not long be cheap in eating-houses before they are craved in the cottage ; and when that happens it will answer better to the farmer to raise stock than corn. On the other hand, joint stock companies for the conduct of steam tillage— companies which will let or sell steam-cultivato - s on terms suitable to the means of middle-class and small farmers—will do much towards render ing tillage independent of weather, and increasing the fertility of land beyond all present estimate. To this we might add the prospect of the sewage of our towns, villages, and settlements of all kinds being used to as much purpose generally as we have seen it in particular cues, and new care and skill applied to the increase of fish, and vari ous other incidents of our advancing civilisation ; but we need go no farther. A season as favour able in its progress as it has been in its opening will be, in its simplest form, a blessed compensa tion for the affliction of the cotton famine ; and if it should moreover bring forward new inventions and arrangements by which the saving of health and the making of money should at the same time increase and cheapen the supply of food, we may see even more to be thankful for in • fine season than we ever slsw before. A deputation from the county of Cornwall promoted yesterday, at Merthorough-hour*, an addl.'s@ of 000@ratu lation to the Prince of Wales on attaining his majority._ A deputation from the general body of Protestant Die meeting Ministers or the three denominations resident in sad about the cities of London and Westminster presented an address of imegratulation to the Prince of Wales upon his Royal Highness's marriage. At two o'clock the Prince of Wales received addressee of congratulation upon his marriage on behalf of himself and the Princess of Wales from numerous corporate and other public bodies. The members of the deputation appeared either in court dress or uniform. The cards brought by the noblemen and gentlemen containing the list of names, and of the different corporate and public bodies from which the addresses ori ginated, were read to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by the Earl of Mount Edgcunibe, Lord.in-Wsiting, officiating for the Groom of the Stole to his royal highness, prevented by indisposition from being present. The Princess of Wales was present during the reception of the adrenal of cosgratulation. Vlsoonot Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon for Wumbor Castle. Despatches were remind yasterdey at the Oolocial-office from the Governors of t h e Cape of Good Hopi, N►t■l, and St. Helena, and from the Lord High lasi= lakinds. 'oi the THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. The sub-committee of the Albert Memorial Fund met yesterday at the Mambo-house ; War,raat Goarrr, ft:M.P., peeekled, and Mr. Alderman Wilma, Henry 11e, C. 8., G. Godwin, Faq., F.H.8., Charles Hill, &sq., F.& A., F. G. Olden*, Req., S. It S. Goodman, Faq., and Breve, Fen., were present. Mr. Goodman, the bosom" , reported that the total amount received up to the time ci the lest meeting of the oommittee,' in October lint, was 53.9681., sad from that time to the present the amount received wee 1,3421., making • total of 54,4411. The total outlay for expenses was 2,0731., of which 1681. ally was for office expenses. Th e cost of advertisements amounted to 1,2991., and the remainder was for pi:nting and stationery. The interest derived from investment of the mousy amounted to 1,8531., whisk had wady paid the ex. mama. The Chairmen mid as the committee were aware, seven arehitnrts had bees invited to send in designs for a memorial, and if one were selected' the other six weto to receive IC3/.. each. Sevea designs had been received, I and that of G. G. Scott, El., had been decided upon, end coneequently, io conformance with • • resole:ion planed at a former meeting of the committee, he was going to draw six cliew e l ines es far IOW. each, for the purpose of paying to those who had not best snocessful. One of mem- Cs complained that the minatars of the committee had not bad an opportunity of seeing the design. Mr. Cubitt said that the designs had been removed within the last few days to the Royal Ga'lery at Westminster, and he believed that it would be advertised oa the next day that they would be exhibited to the public. Some routine business was gone through, end the committee adjourned. Visa OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCINB OF WALES TO SRN ROYAL ACEDZNY.—(TNES DAY.)—This afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princwee of Wales honoured the Royal Academy with a visit previoua to the opening. The Must:ions party were met by the president and other medeniicians, who conducted them through the various moms. Tan BILIPAdi ADDRIBBIZI TO Till PRINCI 07 WISSIL—The Belfast oddness presented to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marl barongb.house, yesterday, were four in number, and were respectively from the town, the corporation, the Q aeon's Ool legs, and the students of the Queen's and Presby terian Oollegea The addresses, which are from the hands of Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co., of Donegan pine, Belfast, are not illuminated on one large sheet, but on beyond pages of a book. These pegs an of vellum, and are enclosed in bindings which far excel is point, not only of beauty, but of art and of execution, any that were exhibited either by Englishmen or foreigners at the Exhibition of last year. The style of the interior illumination is that of the medieval mimesis, with ornamental borders, iaitials, vignettes, and medallions. The binding and illu mination of the fast volume, containing the address of the inhabitants, has been prenoted to the town by Maim Ward, as a token of their loyalty, and as their tribute to the general offering. Preceding the title-page of this volume is a drawing in distemper of the town, the view being surrounded with a wreath of the flax plant and flowers suggestive of the maple trade of the locality. The title-page is a marvel of illumination, its gorgeous ness being only equalled by its exquisite fate and finish. The mottoes at the top of the pages are from a poem by Mr. Francis Davis, the local poet, and those surrounding the medallion at the foot are from the laureate's Ode. Then inedsllioos ere in the purest style of art. The characters are early English, and the borders surrounding the text are chain and elegant. The corpora tion address is equally tasteful. The tribute from the students, the binding of which is an offering from the Hewn. Ward, who are Waders to the Queen's College, is, in point of style and effect, next to that of the inhabitants; and it is vary closely approached by that from the autho rities of Queen's College. This volume is a beautiful speci men of artistic haodlwork. His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Alexander of He... and his Grand Duel Highness Prime Henry of Hesse have arrived at Mantises Hotel, from Windsor Cleatle. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland received at dinner last wising, at Northumberland House, Lead sad Lady Loyalist, Lord sad Lady Colchester, Sir Frederick and Lady Smith, General Sabina, Professor Owen, Captain Deabam, 8.N., Yr. Cheney, Yr. F. Buck lead, and Dr. Beam Jesse. The Duchess of Marlborough will have an sawn* on Wednesday, May 13, at the family mansion in St. James's-square. The Earl Russell left town last evening for Windsor Castle, no a visit to her Majesty. Viscount and Viscountess Feilding have arrived in town. His lordship has taken a residence in Eaton piece for the seism Lord and Lady Leigh and family are expected at their teatime in Portman-square early nut week, from Bleuleigh Abbey, for the lemon. The Lord Bishop of London and Mrs. Tate have Wined ineitatioos fora large reception at London House, St. Juses'eaquare, this evening. Lady de Rothschild bed a dancing party lest might at her ladyship'sruideaos, Grosveaor-plow-hoar. The marriage of Colonel R. Taylor, C. 8., and lady Jane Hay, daughter of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and slater of the Duchess of Wellingtos mid lady Emily Peel, will take pleas in June. The Right Hon. James and the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Wortley have experidniced a fevers lose by the death of a sea, aged 10 years, who expired yesterday of owlet fever at East Sheen, Surrey. Within a few hours after her father-in law's death the Hon. kin Colborne, who had jest be. mats Lady &Moe, gave birth to %ivies. Notwithstooding the natural distress miring from the decease of Lord Seaton her ladyship programed as favourably as elmamatancse gave a right to expect. On Saturday, however, a sudden change for the worse took place, and her ladyship expired the same night. Mr. George Crnikahank hid the honour, on Tues day, of placing hi. picture, "The Wonbip of Benham; is Bt. Goorwe's Hill, Windsor Castle, for her liajesty's inspec tion. He had oleo the honour of beiog graciously permitted to asplskt the .abject of the picture to km 'dainty, and the object for which the work was produced. We regret to learn of the death on Monday at 61, Ratland-gate, of Jobs Gorham Maitland, En., late Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, and Boieretery to the Civil &inky) Comminion. A 13111140111 e ball, which wu projected with the combined object of commemorsting the marriage of the Priam of Wales and augmenting the foods of the Previa. son's Orphan School, came off on Tuesday night in the Ro tunda, Dublin, sled wee one of the most sueoessful sod spleedid festivals which has ever been held in that city, The assembly numbered 1,900 persons, including some of the highest distinction, from all parts of the country, EVENING, APRIL IT INTELLIGENCIL RESIGNATION OF OARDINAL ANTONELLL TURIN, Arum 29. 3.316 . . Yesterday a German priest left Civita Vecchia, for Genoa, by the steamer Prince Napoleon• He is supposed to be the bearer of despatches to Car dinal De Angelis announcing the resiguation of Cardinal Antonelli, and calling De Angels to be the head of the Pontifical government,—Time. DENMARK. The National Gazettes of Berlin announces in its correspondence from Copenhagen, the information in which is derived from a good source, that all the Danish vessels of war are going to be put in commission, and that 6,000 men will be placed under arms. According to the Universal Gazette of Berlin there is a rumour at Copenhagen that the mobilisation of the Danish army is imminent SPAIN. The Augsburg Gazette says : We learn from Munich Chat • certain number of the principal protestant' of Bavaria lately sent an address to Prince Adalbert when in Spain, begging him to interfere in favour of the Spanish protestanta who have been condemned for religious matters, and to procure their pardon from the Queen. Prince Adalbert sounded to the request, and received for answer that the Queen would do everything in her power under the circumstances, but that, before granting pardon, the sentence of the Supreme Court must be made known. (Tairraz's misuse) MEXICO. PARIS, APRIL 30. The government has received despatches from General Foray, confirming the investiture of Puebla by the French forces. The French head-quarter are established on the Cerro San Juan. The town is completely invested. The convents have been fortified, and earthworks are erected in the open country. The garrison of the place is estimated to number 18,000 men. The telegraph line between Puebla and Mexico has been destroyed. The whole population round Puebla is favourable to the French intervention. The unitary condition of the French troops is excellent, and the army is full of ardour. The official report says in conclusion—" We have cut the aqueduct and command all the roads." THE BRAZIL MAIL LISBON, .trau. 30. The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, from the Brazils, arrived here yesterday, and will leave for Southampton at 7 a.m. to-day, with 123 passengers, 1,300 bags of ooffee, 862 bales of tobacco, 30 bales of cotton, and 216 packages of sundries. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom cos owl 0011111IPONDEZT.) PARIB, W ZDNIIIDAT EVINDtO. The budget was finally voted yesterday. Ae fre quently happens, the members of the standing majority who made opposition speeches shrank from backing up their opinions by their votes. The minority was only 7. The Moniker does not pub lish the division list, but I believe !Ist the two recruits of "the five" were MM. Letnercier and The Bourse has been better, in consequence of reports from London that Mr. Adams has given satisfactory explanations to Lord Russell. Rents rose Mx The PAare dela itaffiche of Cherbourg says that seven ships of war, fully armed, are now in the har bour, viz. :—The Napoleon, the Impetueuse,the iron clad frigates Couronne, Normandie, and Solferino, the corvette Forfeit, and the guardship Dauphin. This assemblage of war vessels is connected by the partisans of war with a design to send a French fleet to the Swedish port of Carlskrona, which, it is observed, is only four days' sail from Cherbourg. The Opinion Nationale contends that France and Sweden alone might, at very small cost of men and money, emancipate Poland, restore Finland to Swedish domination, and render Russia harmless to Europe. Some little time ago, on the occasion of a Polish petition being presented to the Senate, the Marquis de Boisoy raised the question whether the right of petition belonged to foreigners. The point was admitted by the reverent senators to be important, and a committee was appointed to consider it. M. de Royer, a late procureur-general, was nominated reporter, and he yesterday presented his report to the Senate. He is of opinion that the constitu tion contains no restriction, and the verdict of the Senate will no doubt confirm his judgment. The right of petition to the Senate being in reality nothing worth, except (perhaps, in some rare in stances) as an instrument of publicity supplemental to the pram, which, in its fettered state, cannot always expose grievances, it is the cue of the go vernment journals to blow the trumpet in Zion, and proclaim to all the world that the " precious privilege" of addressing a petition to the Senate is the polar star of civilisation, and the manifest proof of the liberal character of French institutions. The Charirari has a capital squib upon M. de Persigny's childish interdiction of the use of the word " independent " as applied to opposition candidates. It describes the embarrassment of an unpatronised aspirant for legislatorial honours, who, in the bosom of his family, and assisted by troops of relations and friends, is ransacking all the dictionaries in the house in march of a lawful adjective. Various epithets are suggested, and rejected in turn as dangerous. At length a grey headed father-in-law makes a proposal which is carried unanimously. His idea is that to the word candidate should be added simply these four letters, Lg.d. g. (sans periodic du gcnieernement). The joke consists in this, that the letters s. g. d. g. are, in pursuance of special acts of the legislature, habitually need by advertisers of certain patented articles, to warn the public that the government does not warrant the quality of the wares. A trial for murder, which will be a cause celebre, is now going on before the Assize Court of La Vendde. It appears from the indictment (borne out in its main details by confessions of the accused parties) that a lady of fortune, the wife of a retired captain in the army, named 011ive, but who was separated from him in consequence of her disorderly life, compassed and imagined his death, in order that she might have uncontrolled posses sion of hie property, and for several mouths together made offers of money to various persons to put him out of the way. At length, after much negotiation about the price, she agreed with a neighbour, named G-eudrean, to pay him 13,000 fr. (5201.) to shoot her husband. He did the deed and received the money. One of her lovers, a young farmer, named Ouillet,who had at first promised to do her bidding, backed out of the business on the ground that having come into some property, it was not worth his while to run the risk. He, however, is in cluded in the indictment as having a guilty know ledge of the crime. M. Lachaud has gone special into Brittany to defend the lady prisoner. . t se, lies. I regret to &annum* the death of M. Leon de Wailly, an ethinent author, and one of the best translators of English works that ever existed. His translations of Sterne and Scott are wonderful conquests of the difficulties of a foreign language. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (nom 01:11, OWN oomaroaDaNr.) BERLIN, Ann, 211. The horrors of the conscription are being re peated in Warsaw. Numbers are seized every day, and as soon as a sufficiently large batch of recruits has been collected, it is drafted off by railway to St. Petersburg. 600 of the inhabitants have already been exiled in this way. The object of this renewal of the dreadful scenes of the 15th January appears to be twofold—first, to strike terror into the hearts of thepopulation; and secondly, to fill up vacancies existing in the corps on the Amoor and in other parte of Asiatic Russia, in consequence of many of the soldiers belonging to those corps having been sent to Poland. This savage measure gives a prac tical indication of the real policy of the Czar in Poland, to dissimulate which was the object of the amnesty. Since the ukase announcing it was promulgated, the Czar, as if to revenge himself on the Poles for the duplicity which he was compelled to practise on the Western Powers, has treated them with redoubled rigour. Every day arrests are becoming more and more frequent ; the citadel is full, and the only instance in which the amnesty was carried into effect was the liberation of eight peasants. These severities are also in a great measure attributable to the alarm with which the increasing success of the insurrection is viewed by the government That General Berg has asked for more troops is certain ; but the Emperor has no more troops to give, those still in European Russia being indispensable to keep down the discontent there (which, according to all accounts, is fast becoming almost uncontrollable), and the army of the Cau casus being hard pressed by the Circassian, and moreover consisting in great part of Poles. A general levy is accordingly to take place in all the European provinces but the Polish ones, which Russia is constantly being compelled to treat as Polish countries, in spite of her theory that they were always Russian. The expedient is dangerous' and of doubtful utility—dangerous, because it will probably increase the discontent which is already seething beneath thesurfaoe ; of doubtful utility, because in so large an extent of country the process of recruiting must be necessarily slow, and the Polish question will probably be settled long before, the peasants are converted into effective soldiers. The insubordination of the soldiery has increased to an extraordinary extent, their officers being quite powerless to restrain them. The atrocious vindictiveness with which they hacked about the bodies of the wounded boys who lay helplessly on the field after the unlucky affair of Babice, near Warsaw, was so horrible, that it is said the peasantry who witnessed the fight imme diately joined the rest of the insurgents, and played the chief part in the brilliant action which subsequently took place in the Forest of Kampinoe, l resulting in the dispersion of the Imperial Human of the Guard, with a loss of 300 killed and wounded. It was while the troops were searching for insurgents in this forest, on the 19th, that, being disappointed in their search, they set fire to the wood, burnt down several houses, and com pleted the day's achievements by flogging and wounding Mrs. Bromireks, a much-respected old lady residing at Lazy. To her complaints the officer in command only answered, with a shrug of the shoulders, " Que voulez-vous, Madame I Ce sont des barbarea." The district of Kalisz is now the chief seat of the THE HOUSE OP COMMONS AND THE D1.1'.‘,1 1: QUESTION. The Select Committee of the Home of COllllO 4 , appointed to control the arrangeeneets of the kitches 4 ,1 refreshment rooms in the department of the Bergeam.. 4 . Arms, have just agreed to a report respecting th e plaints which have been made as to the arrangements h e dining in the lower house. It seems that the 'hush % keeper of the refreshment rooms is considered anyth ig but a desirable poet. Prior to the appointment of the pres u keeper the situation bad been declined by several of the pr e . deal hotel•keepers and restaurateurs in London. The towns, is oonfined to the duration of the simian, and no diesel c wanted on Wednesdays, Saturdays, or Sundays, Bat tL great trouble of the keeper is that members are tustb's order their dinners a short time before they are relsi re i Se they cannot tell when they may have the opporturity u dining. At the end of an important speech or debate then is at once a rush to the rooms; "and I consider; says Mr. Steers, "that no reasonahle amount of ee l yenta will be able to supply the immediate se a t of members on such occasions." It is the numbs . . at once," continues the unfortunate keeper, "that make the confusiou ; no notice, no intimation, but everything i expected to be ready then and there, even though amine has been doing in the room for an hour previously. Dari e , the ten yearn I have held my appointment, I have PM once been short of supply, and many members daring l ee session were witnesses to my plentiful supply of mew* for 150 or more, and ooly ten or twelve dining. Even th ee most unprofitable disappointments I ma meet, and do u s require them to be thought of ; but the oslv considerate" which I hops to obtain is that members generally will e . deavour to lessen that confusion which is only caused b so many wishing to dine at one and the some time.' Plate, linen, glass, china, candles, coals, kr., and all kit utensil., arc., are provided, and an allowance of 3001. pe annum is made to the keeper of the refreshment moos k provide waiter and other servanta, end tom to wadi* &a. The committee are of opinion that the cooking as serving up dinners is not no good as it ought to be, and tic the wines and spirits provided are not satisfactory. Up, these pointa they have pealed the following resolutions "It is the opinion of this committee that th date of the kitchen and refreshment deputise is unsatisfactory, and ought to be amende That unless the committee should be of opinion, in re mouth of July next, that the well founded causes of cm plaint against the present mode of management have be removed, it will be their duty to recommend that Se present keeper of the refreshment rooms be supersede That the present arrangement under which the wines se spirits are provided by the manager of the kitchen be de continued, and that three or mere cellars be provided, eat of these cellars to be placed at the disposal of differe wine-merchante to be named by the committee, who e each be paid weekly for the wine consumed," 111 committee are strongly of opinion that the width the rooms must be increased, sod a report and a plan of lk Barry are included in the return. The coat of the alarp ant suggested would to 4,650!. In an appendix, appeal% paper put in by Lord R. Montagu, showing the prices curve at the House of Commons and Ma of the London cinh, These prime relate to upwards fifty articles, dishes, e meals. We give the" table" at the various places. ii the House of Commons, the Caritas, sad the Junior (Jude Service it is 6d. ; at the United Service, Bd. ; at the Atha mum, Reform, and Limon, Pd. ; and at the Commune, Travellers', and Oxford and Cambridge, Is. DISTRUCTION OF LORD BURGHLEY'S MY BY FIBS. PORTSMOUTH, THITIEDATMOINDK. Brookfield•house, Bin/stead, near Ryde, the ma rine 'sat of Land Burghley, has base destroyed by Ira Farallon, and affects eased. No lives last of the Guard, with a loss of 300 killed and I Tug ROYAL WIDDINO PREBENTS.—The Prince ol wounded. It was while the troops were searching Wales sent, yesterday afternoon, to the South Ken for insurgents in this forest, on the 19th, that, sin g ton Museum, to be exhibited with the othet being disappointed in their search, they set fire to presents until the 4th of May, a came of gilt owns ments consisting of a tiara in the form of bay leaves thew ood, burnt down several houses, and 00111. with a neckle"n, &c., manufactured in Rome after pleted the day's achievements by flogging and ancient Etruscan models. The present was made wounding Mrs. Bromirake, a much-respected old by 49 British subjects residing in Rome at tit lady residing at Lazy. To her complaints the time of 11_112AT 01 THZ CHURCH RATER ABOLITIO3hie Royal Highness ' s marriage. officer in command only answered, with a shrug of IRS Bnx..— In a house of 500 eemben the antra Rata Alm& the shoulders, " Que voidez-vous, Madame 1 Ce tics Bill yesterday received its manna quiet.. by a major* sent des barbarea" of 10. Compared with the costing vote of the Speaker Its this was a very great ph to those who cosesis The district of Kalisz is now the chief seat of the y ik e n a id,„„ e „ o f ih a c i aaa h to be m a w oa ib s quotes insurrection. There are between seven and eight Cases Yr. Nowdepte should succeed is carrying kb thousand insurgents in this district. The three rik.fr it. st antijemm y k it y w l ll y ve to H a :: principal bands are commanded by Captain Young tittle this portliest:Ay is for the interest of Ile (formerly in the French army), M. Taczanowaki, thumb we have oftoe expressed our opinion. We wink b and M. Sltrzynski All the villages and smaller abolition ti trion ° l l2" t M ini ust be, bat, bY il not, any other o if the imai r melba( towns towns have recognised the national government, Were it in our power by a moderate amount of violins and injustice to stop the dismission of church rates by axis and are governed by its officers. them on the country for the next fifty years, we should h The insurrection has gained a most important sorely tempted to do so. Our readers should be spend s accession of strength in the open favour with which i hr (..been ..s rd mal a h L r ri re r , t i . ° whie b mes. B ::: 1 , u t y na ei t I'M it is received by the peasants. Many thousands of these d a y s th ee . i n no means o f shutting up Sir j o beir. them are already among the most active of the lawny end a dozen of his casein:we in the Lellewle . Town and it has become next to impossible to extract a churl insurgents in most parts of the country, and it is ~.i s f ax , a reluctant m i slays , w ith mousy or m es a certain that they would rise en masse if there were There is sot a hope of the question being thee set at rat arms for them. It is hardly too much to say that f °ther or • qtsitima a: P ci mn :hea lind go' bu:i b eit e in P o T ld aka the ultimate success of the Poles depends almost Dace. The magicians who could once raise a ter entirely on their being provided with sufficient Peg ea liezlicueuturr reform have sunk their won arms. Many thousands have been prevented from a thousand fathoms deep, and in the same abym a controversies the names of which will not eVeD recur to* joining their fellow-countrymen from the want of memory. But the church rate question is coned with' weapons ; andthis want once supplied, the Russians longevity which bids fair 1„ t 17 , ,,, s be r d nei r ti !"` would be driven out of Poland by the sheer force constituted out of the pale of church.rate-dom. Ere , of overwhelming numbers, so strong and so uni- now and then a dull boom from some distant pun announces that Om compulsory rate has been stir venal is the desire to expel them. doped, and that there the question is for ever at an sex Some gentle shepherd of souls will not levy the mistreat ri , Instant payers, or some uogentle one has used he woe WEATHER REPORT.—(THIS DAY.) rather too sharply, awl so precipitated the fatal deciska This is slow work, and if the progress of the question at --•-- onsairund by parishes, it may go os someklering fa TRIMMAL AMU. SR 8 LK. centurion. But if we take numbers, if we count op the hundreds of thousand., or rather millions, in its 1 19- Ill!: W . IL 1 114 I • K. it '' . 1 e • amk ceurr raliate,"dsod other large will, we towns o y perhapswho fl n beln id ike l Palm '80.24 1 44., A W. I 7 a 6 a ace 2 population of England one way, and the other half anodic. itterdma .23141 6 N.W. l I etKU 3 la quiet times, such as the present, a return eta Leith ;r e 6 W.P.M. : 4 0 t shows that the greet majority of parishes par the ardrceman r•ru C u ' l ' ' • -,- - 3" -!l n i 2 NII * 2 " I 1 we live long enough, we shall see before the end of the Ma- Galway no.M47 3 N. = 1 Wry a crisis or two when beads will be counted, sad vatencia *40471 a Its. 6 $ 14 c e eumiamas ,lBo.l,34B 1 yr,x i 5 pi s 2 there will be such a thing as the majority of the people. g o l y n si d „, , enessil 1 N.N.J. I 7 Id e — i 6 We cannot blind our eyes to the fact that it is becconsi Uverpool .1664645 4 N.N.W. 6 isd w ai he ly re m th oe: po im mi possi taioo ble oce to n co u collect tb t .u.d. cburch . re so tes th in e q parisket ..u. Pembroke i3o.l B l4ef 4 N.Z. lID b 1 6.-111 $1 banana Jersey - i _ r i . , must remain open, and as long as it remains open the chant Brest - --. 1 11 - I:Onent 431 3 N.N.L 1 6 IS •- cam undeserved odium, end, w is even worse, ger Rochefort _ leas 4 H. ruinous tottry.—Tiwits. rlytootalt - THZ ZOOI...GICAL SOCILTY Or LONDON. —Sr Weymouth - Poitsmoutb .040 5 N.S. ,g 6 1 2 to p George Clarke, the president of this society, presidai Kew. - yesterday at the annual meeting, bold at their hone Loudon *111•21 2 DILL oI $ bop - to Haoover. Kum.. From the report, which was read b Dover 011.05441 2 N.Z. 4 b: 6 0.16 3 the secretary, it appeared that the finances were in . Yarmouth „ 110.01'47_, 1 N. c- . S flourishing state, the Income for 1882 having been awl scarborougn ilr ac 4 1. o 4 0.18 It 9,0001. in excess of that of 1861. The total mews Shields .._ Heligoland .87 Cal 1 W. 4 ' - 0.15 _ the number of compotmders doubled that of th° GI _ _ Helder I: H_ ..! - _l_ _l_ prsoadiog year. The receipts for the year luo.' : Liston - - - —- . - amounted to 27,3971. fin lid,. exceeding those of lmi. 111.011 Alla . by 11,3251. Os. 9d., of which 20,707/. Its. had been ,le FRIDAY. SATURDAY. rived from admissions to the gardens in Ragest'synk N. t o W, strong to 500n 626 , Kw. t o NA, f res h t o I The number of fellows elected since the last meeting est fresh. moderate 94 and 9 annual aubscribers, whole there were 37 Jest* N.K to N.W.. strong IRRLARD. N.N.W. to KKK and , and 27 resignations, and 18 candidates for admit.... to fresh. I.K. fresh to mode- The additions to the menagerie of specimens exhibited rate• for the first tine were important, the most remarkable ~I N.N.W. to N.L and W.Corram. As past above. LK., fresh to me. which was the AywAye of Madagascar (Chiron'''. .rain' dent e gascorierine). which was until very recently ally *Wm W. MN. lad L. fresh. W.PIASCS. N. W. to N. H. and 8.8, Ito naturalists from two specimens in the Paris .mllecti ,. . • to moderate- moderate. ! Amongst other", exhibited for the first time were i-e N.N.W. to N.N.Z., LW.IIIMOtAno. N. to K and 8.1.., Jar .. e bean, the Honed op mgopan p h rian i a sad fresh, moderate . the Baja.; the last named had almost up to the pa'a : N.W. to e n ii , l ireelt to 8.8. IiOLAND. N. to Z. and &i., Im:i -mmoderate derate , fine. . time been so little known as to have only just riceived 1 N.N.W. to LICK, Z. Orisir. ILL to Kt, moderate, scientific appellation. UM also mentioned . that the b , rU fresh to moderate. fine. 1 of Paradise were in a healthy condition. although ni oulta , : : _______ __ ____ The report concluded by congratulating the ,octet` its continued prosperity. Sir William Newton nova M. Prondhon's long-announced pamphlet, Lea the adoption of the report, which, having been m onde'. Dee/wrote, Aseeretrates, has appeared. He recommends all by Mr. Im: i t a w 4 4 44 te rri na ed i um. The r e mainin g bun inew tru* ailed was QUZISSLAND.—The government of Queensland harbor. • : I y l to u r t s p t= hy ‘ t b h : gosb:ebaintnntinettf7l"46l2lays' against I that., lk• EMIGRATION " Or liitisrot, Currow 0 P P.R ATIVI' 1" i without the freedom of the press, without the right of consequence of applications from the load committee. am' meeting, with government interference, sad with the oath seated to give free purges to 25 of the hands lately 0 1. i mpose d m , th e ca ndidate, the elections are but an empty ployed at the Great Western Cotton Works, Bristol, o it M! formality, and a mere pretence of taking the maim of the , I.". to emigrantsu ree tom wards ent th a e n gze t t at l:y a giviet to ce escb c lrr o country, ~. 1 11. g, payable on landing in Queensland, and to pay the 0 . 1/111111.UCTIVII *TORY IN THE NORTH.-011 Tiles - passes to the starting port, and up to the time of embarks day evening the North Riding was traversed lry a Severe rem. The party selected as emigrants ornaiated of Ow thunderatorm from the north-west. The track of the stem married couples, neves single ma/es, and tee single fora:dor . does not appear to have been more than a few mills Soma They will leave Bristol to-day (Thursday) for Plemeed‘ , and it appears to have attained its utmost severity is the whither they will be accompanied by the Rev.:. N. GT% vicinity of Mahon, where there were repented showers of i who has kindly undertaken te see them ee hard enormous hailstones, or rather angular Teems of ice, fully ironing Australian, in which ship they will sad for th e' l the Mae of walnuts. i destination on Saturday next. _..,stion. There are between seven and eight thousand insurgents in this district. The three principal bands are commanded by Captain Young (formerly in the French army), M. Taczanowski, and M. Skrzynski All the villages and smaller towns have recognised the national government, and are governed by its officers. The insurrection has gained a moist important accession of strength in the open favour with which it is received by the peasants. Many thousands of them are already among the most active of the insurgents in most parts of the country, and it is certain that they would rise en maw if there wore arms for them. It is hardly too much to say that the ultimate success of the Poles depends almost entirely on their being provided with sufficient arms. Many thousands have been prevented from joining their fellow•countrymen from the want of weapons ; andthis want once supplied, the Russians would be driven out of Poland by the sheer force of overwhelming numbers, so strong and so uni versal is the desire to expel them.