The Express. — London, England, 1863-05-02 00:00:00

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MDA....Aftareeea. 1k IK To-mossow—Monilme. Ws.....Aftessea. lk. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 2 Tux re-appearance of the well-known Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England seems to promise some further elucidation of the effects of the distress in the North upon the principal phenomena of our national life. Unfortunately, the Report, although just issued, only covers the year 1861. Consi dering the importance now ascribed to statistical data, and the extent and completeness of the offi cial organisation over which the RZOISTILLII. Garreast, presides, it does not seem unreasonable to expect that we should be favoured with the general view of the movement of the population earlier than fifteen months after the date of the latest occurrence recorded. The year 1861 saw the commencement, but only the commencement, . . of what has been called the Cotton Famine. In May of that year the greatest activity prevailed in the cotton trade. In the wink* quarter, how ever, the demand for labour in the cotton factories and in the market generally in the North of England fell off, and the rate of pauperism rose rapidly. Accordingly, while the Metro polis maintained the number of its marriages, in Lancashire a considerable decrease took place in comparison with the corresponding quarters of the two previous years. The Midland counties and Yorkshire also exhibited a similar diminu tion. Thus in Manchester marriages decliqed from 1,286 in the last quarter of 1860, to 1,150 in that of 1861 ; in Ashton, from 342 to 271 ; in Blackburn, from 412 to 281 ; in Preston, from 355 to 254 ; in Bradford, from 575 to 483 ; in Sheffield, from 601 to 470 ; and in Nottingham, from 252 to 208. But the brief operation of these local causes leaves unaccounted for a general decline in the number of marriages observable throughout England. The year 1861 appears most to advantage in the Exontraatt-GENERAL'S tables in relation to the number of births. Fewer people were married than in either of the two previous years, and although the year was healthy the number of deaths exceeded that of 1860. The births, how ever, were more numerous than they had ever been in England, reaching the high number of 696,406, more by 12,368 than in 1860. This is at the rate of 3.461 per cent. of the population, or one birth to 29 persons living, and is higher than the mean rate, which is 3.318, or one to 30. Although the mortality was greater than in 1860, it was below the average of the pre ceding ten years. Of marriages,l63,7o6 were cele brated in 1861, being fewer by 6,450 than in 1860, and by 4,017 than in 1859. The deprees ing cause, whatever it was, was at work throughout every quarter of the year. The Rsausraas GENERAL remarks that "tables which run through " a series of years show that the people are leas " inclined to enter into wedlock in the first than " in any of the succeeding quarters," and in the year under notice that season was eminently un propitious, in consequence of the severe frost and the dearness of provisions. The Reoisiitsit-Gr-vimAL has introduced some of the leading facts in the statistics of France in 1861, for the purpose of comparison. It is seen that both the marriage and the birth gates were lower in that country than they were in England, while the death rate was higher. The persons married were 1.544 to the population, whilst in England they were 1.628. The births were 2.688 against the English rate of 3.461 ; the deaths, 2.308 against 2.163. The inferiority iA births is the more remarkable because the population of France has not attained to that density which in England might be assigned as a reason for a diminution in the rate of increase. 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The Hirst and Second Volinas, uniform with the third, on nabs THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1863. has been increasing for the last quarter of • cen tury at the rate of • million in every five years. This is very rapid progress, ar.d, under all the cir cumstances, may fairly be appealed to u a proof of our prosperity. In the rate of the increase of our population we exceed both France and Austria, but are ourselves surpassed by coun tries which we are not in the habit of considering pre-eminent in material well-being. According to the eminent French statistician M. Macaws BIAMIL we occupy only the sixth rank in this respect among the countries of Europe, the rates of mean annual increase of the principal States for the last 30 years being shown in the following comparative table : Greens Pramia 1.57 „ Norway 1.39 „ Sweden 1.17 „ Netbarlaada Greet Britain 1.09 „ Runk' Denmark Italy l.OO per oent. Germany 0.99 „ Bpsin Belgium Switwtand France 0.53 ~ Austria 0.41 Portugal O.lB ~ Yet although our population increases so rapidly, and has nearly doubled in the last 50 years, it advances with slower step than it did when our numbers were smaller. During the period of the Napoleonic wars, from 1801 to 1811, the increase was at the rate of 14 per cent., while between 1851 and 1861 it was 12 per cent. The diminu tion of the rate of increase as population bccomcs more dense is a commonly observed phenomenon, to be regarded rather with satisfaction than regret. It is not upon every increase of population, irre spective of circumstance', that a community is to be congratulated, and for England the time is come when we should seek in the national statistics the evidences rather of a more equal distribution of the fruits of industry and the prudence which alone can secure prosperity, than of a mere increvoe of the numbers of the people which no foresight has guaranteed against privation. We have reason to believe that Sir Henry Darkly, Governor of Victoria, will become Governor of Mauritius, and be succeeded by Sir Chas. H. Darling, now Governor of Jamaica. THE BRAZILS. (Per Magdalena.) *BUENOS AYR ILigaz 28. Exchange, 67} ; ounces, 426. Wetaalted ox hides, 40. Dry American, 36 to 27 (qy. 37), large transactions. Wool quiet ; prices 3 to 4 lower. Tallow, 14, firm and in demand. Lumber, 34, declining. Flour unchanged. Refined sugar, 16}. The money market is eerier (qy. easier). • Th e traostnimion of this telegram from Lisbon has occupied nearly three days. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, APRIL 30. The Meseageriee Imperiales steamer Cambodge arrived here to-day with mails from India and China, 129 passengers, and 657 packages of mer chandise. On account of the large number of paesengers the Cambodge took the place of the Alphde. 1 1 D. Nairn AO. 3 Aberdeen lg. 4 Leith 10.1 56 4 Ardroran —10.23 51' 1 Pertrneh 20.200 Galway 30.3056 0 Valeria 50.32:56 2 Queenstown 30.5634 I ilolyheag 30.2244 0 Liverpool 30.2 6 150 I Pembroke 30.1 3 152 2 Penzance —110.27'51 3 Jerry - greet 30.04 50 4 I:orlent 29.84 50 4 Rochefort. 20.10 50 2 Plymouth 50.1353 8 Weymouth 80.14 60 6 Portsmouth 10.12,46 6 gen. 30.10 47 4 London 30.80'47 4 Dove 3O 15 51 1 Wan . • I 3022 de 4 Scarborough 30.2761 3 Shields ;30.2' 65 4 Heligoland 30.24 43 2 C.opeolrgen r f. Helder &N.Z. Z.N.I. 2 4 6 • 4 1 1 14. w. W.N.W. ! fIONDAT. MONDAY. N. to Z., 5. and W., SOOTIAND. Variable, light, fine. moderate, flee. B.S. to 8 W. and N W., laaLattn. Ai above. light to moderate, floe. 8.8. E to W.B.W.,Uglit, W.Currial.. B.W. to N.W , mode- fine. _ rate, fine. N.E.to EL, Aron to w.raaarca E. to S. and W., fresh fresh. to moderate. E.R.E. to R.R.W. end &RAMA= R.W. to N. W., mode- W., fresh to light, rate, 'bowery. Roe. As nest above. LL ZNOLAID, SA W. to W.N.W., mo dents, chancery. Kto S. and W., light 1. Mast W.S.W. to N. N.W., to moderate, dn.. modiesto to Gal. TEE COTTON SUPPLY AND THE AMERICAN WAR. Neill Brothers, of Manchester, whose circulars usually attract attention, issued a circular yester day from which we take the following passages : Seven meths have elapsed since the issue of oar last cir calm, that of Oct. 1, 1862. After a contest of some eighteen months between buyers and sellers, an equilibrium between supply and demand had then been attained. Mid dling Orleans cotton was quoted 260. per lb. at Liverpool, and the stock of all sorts was reduced to 150,000 bales* But the great advance in the price of cotton was at last re ducing consumption below the capacity of the growing countries to supply, even without the aid of America. For the 31 weeks which have since elapsed, the average weekly import has been 30,800 bales, while the weekly demand for home consumption has been restricted to 18,150 bales, and for export to 6,500 balm, making a total weekly demand of 24,650 bales. Thus, with but trifling assistance from American sources, supply has gained upon consump tion to the extent of 6,000 bales per week, and the stock of , all kinds now held at Liverpool has increased to 369,000 bales. Hence, the price of middling Orleans now stand at 210. per lb., a decline of 40. as compared with the Oc tober quotation. This decline, however, is confined to cotton of the better staple-American, Egyptian, Brazilian, and the like. The higher grades of East Indian, which have borne the weight of consumption, have been better supported, and after • temporary decline fair Dhollera is now quoted 170. against 170. in October, and middling 15d. against 16d, at that period. But we regret to say that in looking forward to the future, the improved relationship of supply to demand is not likely to be supported on the same scale. In order to as ertain the probable supply for the ensuing five months, whisk will carry as into the period when docks should reach their minimum point for the semen, it is necessary to look to the figures of last year, and to modify them ac cording to circumstances. From May 1 till September 26 last year, the import of East Indian cotters was 278,000 bales, and of other sorts 117,000-total, 395,000. For the same period this year we estimate East Indian, 275,000, and of other sorts, 165,000-total, 440,000. This estimated increase is based, so far as India fie comerned, chiefly upon the development of the trade in Bengal and Madras, and upon the incentive of high prices drawing forward a little of the new crop earlier than usual. As regards the supply from other countries, the increase is expected to come chiefly from Egypt, Smyrna, and other districts in the Ottoman empire. But while the utmost importation we can fairly look for is thus only 440,000 bales for the five months, we estimate the consumption as follows :-The home consumption of all sorts, which had lately fallen to about 13,000 bales per weak, has doubtless, under the recent increase of demand for yarns and goods, increased to 23,000 bales ; and, as it is still rising, there is every probability that an average of 24,000 to 25,000 bales will be attained, unless checked by • too rapid advance in the cotton market. We may, there fore, fairly estimate the consumption of the ensuing twenty one weeks at an average of not under 23,000 bales per week, or an aggregate of 483,000 bales, against 468,000 last year ; and we shall take the export at 10,000 bales per week, Of 21.0,000 against 226,010 last year. We have thus to meet • demand for 693,000 bales, with an import not likely to ex cad 440,000. It is therefore evident that the present stock of 369,000 bales will have to bear merlons curtailment daring the summer-a reduction probably to 100,000 or 120,000 some time in the month of August or September. As regards the prospect of renewed supplies from Ame rica, we have nothing cheering to report. In our October circular we foreshadowed the rise of an anti-war party, to be formed from among those (the democratic section) who had been quite satisfied with the policy of the govern ment But we argued that even should such • party arise, obtain power, and admit the hopelessness of the attempt to subjugate the South, they would still consent to fight for • desirable frontier-one which would give the North a pre ponderance of territory. Events justified these anticipa tions much more speedily and decidedly than was expected. The rise of the democratic semi-peace party was so sudden and brilliant as to surprise, and almost alarm, its own leaders. It became clear that with the North divided against itself, the South would be in a position to dictate its own terms, the democratic border states would be lost, the union narrowed to the breadth of the state of Ohio, and the democratic party left in • hopeless minority, and permanently excluded from power. Neither the interests of the country nor of the party ap peared to them to justify these sacrifice. Better it seemed to have another year of war, with the chances it might give of • more Southerly frontier, and till this can be secured it now seems probable that the leaders of the party will be as warlike as the fiercest of the republicans. The latter, thus supported, will be able to resist the more pacific) tendencies of the lower Ante of the &mammy, who, actuated by their prevailing sentiment of hatred of the negro, in behalf of whom, as they fancy, they are now called upon to fight, have long manifested their dissatisfaction. A crisis in the struggle must occur during the ensuing two months, upon the expiry of the term of enlistment of the nine months' men ; but, however weak the govern ment may be in the South, it is at present unusually strong in the North, and will probably surmount the difficulty as it has so many others, however serious it may appear at the time. The voices of the numerous but linin litiential malcontents will, doubtless, be drowned in the war cry of the majority, who control the legislature, the press, the pulpit, the platform, the army, and, of course, the con tractors and dependents on the government, whose name is legion. If not strong enough for aggressive warfare. the Northern armies may fall back upon Washington and Ken tucky, and stand upon the defensive. During the winter the celebrated proclamations of Presi dent Lincoln in favour of emancipation have been issued, and that method of subduing the South has been Meted, only to prove, however, what was at cam perceived by those who were open to realm, that emancipation cannot be effected against the universal sentiment of the ruling race, while they hold the vast interior country. To give effect to biz proclamations, Mr. Lincoln required to hold, and per vade with his forms, the entire country so effectually as to be enabled everywhere to substitute martial rule for the several state laws-a task manifestly impossible in a terri tory of 800,000 square miles. This is at last seen and ad mitted by Mr. Horace Greeley, editor of the Tribune, and perhaps the most powerful and clear-sighted of the anti slavery leaders. Slight and distant as may be the Maurine of moral pressure upon the South, when in undisturbed pommies of liberty (and slavery), it is certainly not so hopeless as the President's late attempt to enforce emanci pation in a territory which no armycould effectually occupy. Am regards the supply of cotton from other than American sources, we have for so far, in most cases, to report dis appointing results. Comparing the import. of 1862 with those of 1861, she first year of war, we find that India has given 3,507,000 cwt. against 3,295,000 cwt., an increase of only 61 per cent. ; and the imports of the present year, the season having been unfavourable, are not estimated at • much higher figure. The only other large markets are Egypt, which has given 5%,000 cwt., against 365,000 cwt. in 1801, an increase of 44 per cent.; and Brazil, 'tending for 208,000 cwt., against 154,000, an increase of 35 pm mat. These figures show • more satisfactory rate of progression ; and as regards Egypt, at least, the increase in 1863 will undoubtedly be much greater still. Turoing to the new, and as yet small MADAM which have been opened up by the agitation of the Cotton Supply Association, and more recently by the demand consequent upon the American war, the par-ventage of increase is in some countries considerable, but the aggregate moults are in most cases miserably small. We have heard • great deal of the west coast of Africa, but the yield has been only 3,300 cwt., against 1,300 in 1861 ; and of the West Indica, but they have only given 10,400 cwt., against 9,400 the previous year. Taking all the new countries, except Turkey, and including Chins-whence the import of 15,00 cwt is quite exceptional, and merely due to the premed high prime - the import for 1862 has been only 46,000cwt.,t against 16,400 in 186 L But from Turkey, which has but lately received any attem Moo as a field for the growth of cotton, the reports ere much more cheering. In 1861, the imports from theses were 633 cwt. ;in 1862, 41,212 cwt. And as the production foe the succeeding year-that is, the crop now maim( la, is estimated by competent authorities at over 100,000 bales, or 300,000 cwt., it is apparent that the Ottoman empire is rapidly rising into a high position among the producers of the mush-sought-for commodity. • The geared brokers' estimate of 81,000 was subsequently found quite erroneous. L t Excluding American and East lodise transhipped at Havannah, Nemeth, Cape el Good Hope, Ice. A letter published by a contemporary announces the discovery of several petrified trees at Herrington, Com. herbed. The pstrifactioes were dimovered on a rock, ekes to the sr. but 150 feet above high water mark. NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE ACROSS THE THAMES. (THIS DAY.) This morning the foundation stone of a new bridge acmes the Thames, in connexion with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. was laid near the south side of old Blackfriars-bridge. Th e distance from the centre line of the two bridges will be about fifty yards, and the new bridge, when completed, will connect the London, Chat. ham, sod Dover line with the Metropolitan line in Farriogdon-street, thus completing the southern railway communic►tion with the Great Northern and the Great Western Railways. Among those present were Lord Sondes, Chairman of the London, Chatham, and. Dover Railway Company ; Lord Harris, deputy chairman ; Sir C. Rich, M.P., and Mr. Hilton, directors; G. Ctibitt, engineer-in-chief of the company; Mr. Turner and Mr. Thomas, engineers of the lice; Mr. J. S. Forbes, general manager; Mr. G. F. Holroyd, the secretary; Mr. Newman, this solicitor; Sir Morton Peal and Mr. Betts, the contractors; Mr. Waterier, He, 13synes, Mr. Woodford, Mr. Baldwin, and other influential gentlemen connected with the railway. The close contiguity of the two bridges is a remarkable feature, and suggests the idea that the navigation of the river by steam vessels and boats may be rendered some. what difficult, or at all events require an additional amount of can ; but the erection of the new Black friars-bridge further west than the old one will pro portionately increase the interval. The piles are already laid across the river, and it is anticipated that the bridge will be completed within a year. This new railway bridge will be an iron girder bridge rest. ing on stone piers, having four linen of way, and will be supported by a cluster of columns on each pier, and the sides of the structure will be an open lattice work, giving it a light and elegant appearance. The width of the bridge will be 64 feet. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Saida at ten minutes after one o'clock, and when the fact was formally announced several hearty rounds of cheers wee, given by thaw assembled. The noble lord then delivered a brief address, and after baring warmly eel°. gised the contractors, expressed his confidence that through their well-known energy and skill, combined with those of the engineers, the magnificent work just com menced would be completed within a few months. lie also expremd his satire confidence in the engineers. Mr. G. Cuarrr, on behalf of himself and the other env% nears, and Sir MORTON Pero, on behalf of the oontractors, made a brief acknowledgment, the latter observing that he hoped that within a year the London, Chatham, and Dover line would form part of the high road to the north. The proceedings then terminated. At the close of the ceremony an elegant lunch wee served, under the superintendence of Means. Staples, at the Albion Tavern, Aldengate•etreet, in cue of the adjacent buildings at the top of Blackfrian-road which have come into the possession of the Londoe, Chatham, and Dover Board. The chair was taken by Sir Morton Pato. Lord SONDES, in replying to the toast of his health as the chairman of the board, said they were all aware of the mention made by Lard Macaulay of the New Zealander who, the historian supposed, would, at some distant period, stand on London bridge beholding the ruins of fit. Paul's. He hoped that whenever that happened this visitor would find the Blaeldriers Railway-bridge just founded firm and stable, and that by means of the railway communication which it completed the gentleman would be enabled to complete his survey of the country. (Lauber.) Lord Somme having proposed "The Health of the Con tractors, Messrs. Pato, Steamy, and Bette," Sir MORTON Pero, in reply, alluded to the fact that his firm bad already received 4,000,0001. far its ser vices, and observed that, notwithstanding all that lasi been said against it, the company would soon have the command of railway communisation with all the principal parts of the metropolis. The health' of Mr. G. Cubist, the eogineeriu. chief, and Mews. Turner and Thomwengineers of the line, were subsequently given and responded to in appropriate terms. It is rumoured (Army and Nary Gazette) that the diatinguithed poets of Dios-Admiral and Rrr•Admi• tel of the United Kingdom will very likely be confined upon Sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.8., and Sir George French' Seymour, G.C.B. Mdlle. Patti is expected almost immediately. It is said that preparations for the mounting of Faust, on the most sumptuous Covent Garden scale, have bees commanded by the management. Herr Ernst has pissed through London to Mal vern—unhappily, still a suffering invalid. We (Atheneum) are told, however, that he has all but completed one or two stringed quartette, in addition to that produced In 1862, and which was repeated at the Popular Concede on Monday list _ _ . At the Philharmonic Concert of Monday next Beethoven's " Egmont" music ix to be performed; Mr. A' Matthison will read the connection text; Madame A. Goddard is to play Professor Bennett's Cowen° in F minor ; IGes Banks and Signor Della Sadie are the singers be spoken. Mr. C. Dickens will preside at the anniversary festival in aid of the funds of the Royal Free Hospital, to be held at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday next, the 6th instant. _ The annual dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers has been axed for Wednesday, Jane 10, at the Frusanseons' Tavern. . . Yesterday afternoon the monthly meeting of the membersof the Arohgeological lostitnteheld la their rooms in Suffolk-street, was very numerously attended, Lord Lyttol ton being in the chair, to boar a paper by the Rev. Professor Willis, " On the Crypt and Chapter-honse of Wormeter Cathedral.' The meetings of scientific societies for the ensuing week are as follows :—Monday—Asiatic, 3. Entomological. 7. Architects, 8, Annual General. Royal lonitutioa, General Monthly Meeting. Tuesday—Horticultural, 1, Exhibition of Sculpture. Ethnological, 8, "Native, Yen °Mine' Is/and," Dr. King and Professor Busk ; " Wild Tribes, Interior of Malay Peninsula," Phe Bowies. En gineers, 8, " American Iron Bridges," Mr. Colburn. Royal Institution, 3, "Sound," Professor Tyndall. Photographic, 8. Wedneeday—Geological, 8. Society of Arta, 8, " Bread Making and Condition of those Employed," Dr. Wyster. Society of Literature, 81. Thursday—Lioness. 8, " Two Aquatic Species of Hymenoptera," Mr. Lubbock. Oben cal, 8, "Constitution of Salta," Dr. Mayfair. Antiquities, 8. Royal. 81. Royal Institution, 3, "Geology," }Warm Amsted. Friday—Astronomical. 8. Royal Institution, 8, "Soils of England," Professor Voelcker. Saturday—Royal Institution, 3, "Language," Professor Max Midler. On Wednesday next the choice of the Agricul tural Society will be declared, of Newcastle, Darlington, and Durham, which is to be the scene of the great country meeting in 1864. "Yesterday," says the Reader, " will claim to be specially recorded in soy future history of our periodical literature as having gives birth to five new paricelicals. First is the new organ of the conservative party, the New Review, • monthly periodical, which prominently places the Earl of Derby forward as its recognised leader, and true type of its politics. Next is the Anthropological Review, a new quarterly, proceeding from the Anthropo logical Society of London, and which in its first number puts the 'Jaw-bone' question in a satisfactory light, and settles it for ever. Then there is another quarterly, the Fine Arts Quarterly Reciter, editerl by Mr. Woodward, her Majesty's librarian, under her Majnty's immediate patronage, and patting forth • fiat of names of men of mark in literature and art as guarantee of its future excellence. Agais, there is the Vidoria Magazine, published monthly by Miss Faith full, with names of its contributors, all of the highest class. , And last and least is the Childreis Journal, a weekly pen ' syworth of tales and legends, cleverly illustrated after the German manner." The "All England Eleven" open their season by playing 22 of Podney and district on Monday. The Examiner on Standing Orders having decided that the bill for the union of the City police faros with the Metropolitan must be introduced as a private bill, the mea sure cannot be proceeded with this session unless a special vote of the House of Commons be passed suspending the standing orders in its favour, which is not probable. The Spectator says :—" We may, we believe, announce with some confidence the main features of sir Charles Trevelyan's forthcoming Indian budget. He has a surplus of two millions, which he will um to sweep emir almost all existing Indian customs duties, replacing them by a uniform rate of gra per cent. ad referent. The exceptions are spirits, which will remain as they are, the Wilted piece goods, which will not be changed, an.l the duty oe beer, which will be reduced to an anus (three halfpence) a gallon. The income-tax will not be toucl ed, Sir Charles Trevelyso believing that with theme change , be will be able next year to abolish it altogether." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (SE USSR'. T6LIORAYL I POLAND. CRACOW, APRIL 28. Intelligence received here from the Polish frontier says that upon the 24th of April four divisions of insurgents, numbering in all upwards of 3,000 men, under the command of Seyfried, Jung Blankenheim (a French officer from Alsace), and Von Beydewitx (an officer formerly in the Prussian service), were posted between Skulsk and Rusakow, in the govern ment of Honin. The cavalry, well armed and excel lently mounted, numbered nearly 150 men. The arms of the whole force are of good quality, particularly the rifles of the sharpshooters. Scythes for the pea sants are manufactured in the camp. Recruits of 'this class arrive every night, in parties of 15 to 20, 1 from the province of Posen. Provisions are plentiful, but there is a dearth of clothing, shoes, and weapons ; some divisions, indeed, are still en tirely unarmed. Drill and military exercises are pursued with great diligence. On Sunday last divine service was held in a field not far from Rusakow, the chaplain of the force preaching an inspiring sermon after celebrating maim The corps of Jung Blankenheim, which, similarly to that of Seyfried, consists of two divisions, was formerly stationed in Slupee. In this frontier a new division is now being organised, which is strengthened daily by accessions from the province of Posen. On the 24th a corps of 500 Russians, sent out to reconnoitre, nearly fell into an ambush laid by the insurgents, not far from Biniezewo ; but being warned in time by a peasant, retreated in safety. The traitor was seized by the insurgents and hanged. It is rumoured that the insurgents in tend to make a combined attack upon the town of Konin. From the western portion of the kingdom the waywodship of Kalisch is reported to be in full revolt. The division of Urbanoweki, recently disbanded, is in process of reorganisation. The bands formed iu the districts of Kalisch,Konin, and Wielun, which hadbeen joined by numerous auxi liaries from the duchy of Posen, have compelled General Prince Wittgenstein to demand reinforce ments from the Commander-in-Chief at Warsaw. Wirballen is occupied by a Russian garrison of 800 men, among whom the German troops from Conduit' are especially noticeable as the most em bittered enemies of the Poles. In Samogitia and Lithuania firearms are almost totally wanting, yet the insurgents have gained victories armed with flails shod with iron or scythes furnished with sharpened hooks. The Russians who moved against tho Poli,' , bands from Radom, Kielce, and Opatow on the 15th April, bad concentrated themselves upon the 17th at Lubinia, 2,000 strong, with three guns, and attacked Grelinski'e division of 500 men from two separate points. This leader brought his poorly-armed raw levies for the first time into the field, and sustained with these untried troops a vehement fire of small arms and artillery for three hours. The Polish sharp shooters, led by Bogdan, an old artillery officer, distinguished themselves by especial daring. The lossof the Poles was inconsiderable ; the dead and wounded of the Russians filled 7 waggons. Grelinaki succeeded in capturing a large portion of the enemy's baggage. In the meantime Czartrowski bad received news of this engagement, and while the Russians were hastily retreating upon Kielce, ttacked them near Bzin on the 20th, and caused them further heavy losses. The same day Kononowicz attacked another Russian detachment retiring upon Kielce in the vicinity of Wonchock, put them to flight, and captured 180 muskets. WARSAW, Ana 28. When the period appointed for the amnesty to take effect has expired, the kingdom is to be divided into 200 district& Each of these will be occupied by a military column, whose chief will also have jurisdiction in all civil matters. The civil district courts will be dissolved, the military chiefs super seding the president (wojt) of every such court. No person will be permitted to leave the place of his domicile without special permission. All Poles in office will be replaced by Ruasians. The military chief will execute summary martial law upon rebels. From all one can gather it appears pretty evident that the Marquis Wielopolski is only retained in office by the Emperor against his will, and further, that after the 13th May the Russian government will take up a much more energetic position in reference to the insurrection. The state of siege will be ruthlessly enforced. Since Ge neral Berg's arrival, and the almost simul taneous nomination of Lewszyon as the chief of the police, useless and Hie,* annoyance of peaceable citizens is noticeable in even greater degree than before. Last week the police arrested young people indiscriminately in the street, carried them off to the commissary of the district, and had them examined. This was with the object of discovering the central committee. In a similar way the printing offices are now uselessly troubled. Last night a swoop was made upon the printing office of the Dziennik Powfaeckny (the government organ !) and upon that of the Warachauer Zeitung. One would really almost imagine the searches had been purposely commenced in quarters where it was certain no illicit pamphlets were to be found, so as to allow guilty parties time to escape. In nearly all measures of the authorities, indeed, we are constantly in doubt whether treachery or stu pidity ,is the guiding motive; often probably both prevail. The following passage translated from the secretly printed paper, News from the Theatre of War, will tell its own story : "General Chruszczen, chief of the Lublin mili tary district, is distributing to several landowners in his command a kind of safe-conduct, drawn up as follows :—' I request all officers who may pass through the village of to abstain from mo lesting the landowner resident here, to offer him in person no sort of violence, and to leave his property undisturbed.—The chief of Lublin mili tary district, Adjutant-General C1aW17.424D.' "It appears to us," says the secret journal,"that this document, reminding one so vividly of the pillage practised by rubber knights in the middle ages, requires no further comment." PRUSSIA. BERLIN. MAT 2. The members of the moderate liberal party of the Chamber of Deputies discussed, in a private sitting yesterday, the proposition of the party of progress, to send an address to the King upon the foreign policy of the government. The members rejected this proposition on the ground that a debate thereon might lead to a con flict between the chamber and the government. No address will therefore be forwarded by the chamber to the Bing, for the present. trbe Coun. OSBORNE, NAT I. To-day is the anniversay of the birth of Prince Arthur. Her Majesty and the Royal Family arrived at Osborne yesterday at ten minutes pad six o'clock, baring eroded over from Gosport in the royal yacht Fairy to Eadeowes. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Grey, rode on horseback yesterday roaming. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stoner, took a carriage drive. Prince Louis of Hasse, &needed by Lie ut enant-Colonel do Plat, arrived at Marlborough House in the afternoon op a visit to the Prince of Wales, from Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Pence and Prime= of Wales took a drive in an open earner in the afternoon. The Duke of Oamlxidge, Prince Louis of Hasse, Prince Alexander and Prince Retry of Hoeft, the Marquis sod Marchioness of Alleshary, the Earl of St. Germano, Viscount and Viacountem Sydney, and Lieutenant-General Raollyo dined with the Prune sad Prince= of Woke in the evening. The Roo. James Macdonakl was is attendance on the Duke of Cambridge ; LientenantrOolowd du Plat attended Prime Louis ; Rum do Rotamaan and Captain Westerweller were in wailing on Prince Alexander and Prince Hoary of Rene. Major Teesdale his soccooded Captain they in his duties ea Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wails. At the reception by the Primo of Wake, on Wednceday, of addresses of congratidatiou as his Royal Highinges mar riage, Lord /Moho, M.P., Lord Colville of Calms, and Mr. John Y. Moir, M. A., Secretary to the corporation, presented an addrein from the Scottish Hoigpital of the Foundation of Ring Charles the Second. A deputation from railway compudes, ennisting of Sir J. Fergossom M.P., Caledonian Railway Company; Mr.Thomp son, M.P., North Eastern Railway Company; Mr. West bead, M.P., London and North Western Railway Company ; Mr. Wickham, M.P., Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company ; Mr. Love, Great Eastern Railway Company ; Mr. Beale, Midland Railway Company; Mr. Blank burn, ILP., Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company ; Hon. F. Poissooby, Great Western Railway Company; sad Colonel Pecks, M.P., Great Northern Railway Company, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official recideme in Downing-street, on the subject of the imposition of passenger duty on third dare pawners. The Right Hon. T. Milner Glom, President of the Board of Trade, was also present at the interview. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Black, M.P., and Sir William Dunbar, had an interview on Thursday with the Earl de Grey, Secretary of State for War, oo she subject of New Buildings in the Castle of Edinburgh. A deputation from the City of London, consisting of Mr. L►wley, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, Mr. Norris, M.P., Mr. Sewell, Chairman of the General Purposes Committee, and the City Solicitor, had an interview with the Right Hoe. W. Cowper, M.P., yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Works sad Public Buildings, Whitehall-pleom A deputation from the Society of British Artists, comistiog of W. Salter, Vice-President, Thomas Roberts, secretary, and George Cole, member, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Home-office Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Coursers of the West India Islands, British Columbia, Bermuda, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Ulm& We (Morning Post) have reason to believe tha. there is so foundation for the report which has appeared in some foreign journals, and has been copied into the English papers, of an intended visit of the Prince sod Prisons of Wales to the Emperor of the French at Fontainebleau. His Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge will give a grand dinner and evening party on Friday next, the Bth inst., to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess of Wales. The Earl and Countess de Grey give a grand dinner on Wednesday nett to his Royal H ighoess the Duke of Cambridge at their residence in Carlton.gardens. The Countess will have a small and early party after dinner to meet his Royal Highness. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have arrived at LiUrban from Stafford-house, St. Jamas'a. The noble Duke and Duchess will stay at Lilleshall t l about the 13th inst., and then come to town to give a series eof parties. Ldy Emma Talbot has left town for Bourne mouth, Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot ham gone to attend to his militia regiment in fita ff ordabire. The Earl and Countess of Darnley entertained a select party at dinner on Thursday evening at their resi dence in Hill•street, Berkeley-square. We are sorry to hear that the Hon. Robert Craven, youngest son of the Earl and Countess Craven, is very seriously ill at Eton. Yesterday the Earl and Countess were summoned to Eton from Ashdown-park; and it ap pears from subsequent information that their ice is in a very critical condition. The Duke and Ductless of Wellington are expected at Ansley House on /decoder next for the season. indy Egerton of Tatton had an assembly last evening at the family mansion in St. James'aaquare. Pre 'lonely to the steam* Lord aad Lady Fnerton received at dinner—His Excelleney the Ambassador of France, the Earl and lady Constance Oromenor, the Countess Dowager of Ease; Lord levensworth, Mt. W. Beaumont, M.P.. mad Lady Itarpret Beaumont, Ron. Mrs. Dad* mid Colonel Oarlike, Mr. and Mn. Dudley Narjorileaka, Mr. and Mrs. Petra, Yr. Coatts Liadsay, Coast Wimples, Mr. Lane Fox, &c, A deputation from the National Colonial Emi- Calks Boatel,, 000sisting of the following gentlemen ve waited upon th e Ri g h t H on. t h e Lord Mayor. and obtained his lordship's consent to preside over a public to be held at the Mansion-house, on Mondayy, the 18th instant, to facilitate emigration from th e (Bair:lased distrieta to the British colonies :-Bir Daniel Cooper, Bert. ; Messrs. H. Barnett, (Barnett, Hoare, and C 0.,) H. H. Browse, W. A. Brodribb, A. Moulder, T. T. Holland, W. L. Hotobkin, James Heywood, J. Yamaha!, Wawalye Nash, E. Potter, J. 8. &or; J. A. You' ; Bawds. W. Kirby and A. B. dater. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nox OUR OWN 0011UNPONDINT.) PARIS, FILIDAY EVINING. As the day of the general elections draws nigh the government shows the cloven foot. The hypo critical pretences so smoothly put forth by official orators that the system of " government candi dated " only implies a desire to prevent the electors from being deceived as to the persons really enjoy ing the confidence of the government, are now un blushingly put aside. The Moaiteur sternly an nounces the determination of power to break up all free electoral committees by enforcing the laws which prohibit the meeting of more than twenty persons without permission. The crown lawyers have found out (and who shall contradict them 1) that although any one section of an electoral committee may consist of less than twenty persons its meeting will nevertheless be illegal, and the journals are warned that they will be prosecuted if they report any of the proceedings of any such ;sections. What now becomes of M. Baroche's boast, uttered only the other day, that the more free the elections were the greater would be the majority for the Emperor's government 1 What reasonable man, not being a French functionary, can pretend that an election is fair when a regime of terror prevents all effective organisation of an opposition j The threatening note in the Moniteur to-day only discloses, after all, a part of the "foul play" which the authorities meditate. The elec toral committees are not to meet ostensibly even in small sections, and the journals are to give no publicity to their resolutions. But if they are industrious enough to work by writing numer ous letters they know very well that there are in the arsenal of the imperial laws abundant means of visiting them with the terrible copse queuess of belonging to a secret society. Private or public canvassing, the moment it becomes ef fective, is to be put down with the strong hand. I hear that several of the committees mean to throw up the game, and protest. The course taken by the government certainly tends to justify M. Proudhon's argument that abstention is the most dignified as well as the most effectual way of mani festing opposition. Of course the crippled French press cannot speak of the ominous demonstration of the Moniker as it deserves. Most of the even ing papers register it servilely without comment. The Opinions Nationak, however, says : It is not doubtful that the government has the letter of the law in it. favour; but the question is, whether the in. terrention is opportune, judicious, politic, or justified by any reasonable apprehension of danger or inconvenience ? Noon. can venture to say it is. The near ►pproach of the elections makes the measure singularly ill-timed. The subject deserves an attentive consideration, and we shall return to it. In the Prase M. E. de Girardin writes : The Moniieur hes done a famous service to the electoral committees, which were breaking up under the weight of their own impotence. The Monsieur has saved them from ridicule. Now that they are prohibited from meeting, they will not fail to say and repeat that but for the fear of the government the central committee would have been the master of the elections, aad have obtained a majority after its own image. As the contrary cannot be proved, the government thus gives them every possible advantage.• The Echo du Nord of Lille has received a warning for writing about the ooming elections, and exciting to hatred and contempt of the government by "attacking the authority and sincerity of universal suffrage." The 'Bourse was very uneasy. The Russian answer is understood to have arrived in Paris, and there can be little ground for hoping that it is satisfactory. Route fell 25c., and Mobilier 271 r. A telegram from Brittany brings the verdict in the case of the adulterous murderess, Madame Olive, and her acconitlices. They are all found guilty but with extenuating circumstances. The sentence on her and two of the suborned assassins is imprisonment with hard labour for life. The fourth gets off with eight years' imprisonment. The Emperor and Empress went to the Vaude ville Theatre last night to see Sheridan as repre- IDented in L'llornme de Bien. The committee of the Legislative Body charged to examine the bill for opening to the Minister of the Interior a credit of 1,200,000 fr. in aid of the suffering cotton weavers, has received several amendments, demanding that the sum shall be in creased to 2,2d0,000fr. The committee is said to consider the proposed addition favourably. The Echo Honjleuraie states that a new line of steamers is expected to be established to run be tween Bonileur and London. One of the motives for the new line is the extensive trade carried on between that port and England, and particularly in MR& WEATHER REPORT.—{THIS DAY.) RAMADA!, MAY t. II A.IL W.N.W. LW& w. W.W. &W. &IL N.W. sii.s. 0- 0- I. - ' , - li al L B. ii. I a. _ _ _ _.. . 1 1 a —1 e 1 1 b —I 1 1 1 2 a 0.101 2 a —.l a —.3 I. t 4 —ll I - —ll 4 b - —ll 6 a,- —l6 . the rot the at. ta.