The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

eri)rtgllS. TU CORKIMPON DENT& a deter, FAIL a. -• " The Lapeer:* to the roma rootlet', (i.u.ette a **le 3.tehed every Traday art I , rale, ought, as trot kit pr. /Lawnmower Weeded for " Tlor raprame:•Leedum Evers. paper, oust b a a t tia, *Hew, to, bouverwereet„ by Taro Valor on the May of publishable. 1011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDO E. Isis IM —MoreIW. -Afternoon. On. 5I en. Toalosaow—Maralag, la. Afternoon. 61.711 M LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. IT was a most agreeable sign of the times when Republican France offered the right-hand of friend ship and welcqrne to England, atter the Great Indus trial Exhibition of 1851. The two nations had been engaged in friendly rivalry in the arts of peace —in amicable contest who should display the most brilliant products of civilised industry. The workmen, the artists, the manufacturers of Paris, of Lyons, of Lille, displayed their beautiful and arti.tic products alongside the goods of Lon don, of Birmingham, of Sheffield, and Manchester. The French cavilers poured out their choicest works—the bourgeois collected their newest designs, and searched their best warehouses for things rich and rare enough to grace tho quarter devoted to their country in the Crystal Palace of Industry in Hyde I'ark, whilst their saran's cheerfully contributed a quota of labour for action on the juries which should decide to whi.l several nations and to which special individuals the palm of superiority should in each class be given. France had then no King, no Em peror. Ihe country was essentially ruled by the people. It was the nation acting and spe akin g in the persons of its silk manufacturers, its jewellers, its silversmiths, its watchmakers, its porcelain workers, its textile manufacturers, and its scientific and active public spirits who joined us here in England in our plan for setting up a World's Fair, to which the people of all countries were invited to be exhibi tors or spectators, as might please them best. Bat our French cousins and nearest neighbours in the brother hood of nations did more than this. Triumphant in some branches of the friendly rivalry, and van quished in others, they showed their complete satis faction with the result by a display of generous na tional hospitality almost before unknown. The City of Paris, in the name of its Mayor, invited the authorities of Loado.l and the chief promoters of the Great Exhtbition to become their guests during a series of fêtes to be given in commemoration of this meeting of France and England in the rivalry of' , the peaceful arts. In the most bounteous and open handed way, regardless of cost, the men of Parts provided special trains for the land journey between the two capitals, with a special service ot steamers for the Channel passage, and by these means a very large party of Englishmen, whh Earl GRANVILLE and the LORD MAYOR at their head, set out fur the French metropolis. Once there, a succes sion of entertainments awaited them. The historical Hotel de Ville became the Berne of a banquet, balls, and theatrical entertainments, the great waters of Versailles and the many attractions of St. Cloud in vited English admiration—s huge military spectacle in the Champ de Mars and a welcome in every public building in Paris were ready to show how heartily Frenchmen could act towards their foreign guests. Altogether it was a manifestation of national sentiment, which it is difficult to ad mire sufficiently, and impossible to praise enough. It was a spontaneous outpouring of French hospi tality and goodwill, which Englishmen may well treasure, as a great fact, tending to show the real sympathy which exists between the two peoples. Let us repeat that it was Republican France did this. Why England did not at once return the compliment, by urging London to invite P asked, and none answered; but wldht the notion was yet under discussion, the efegliralllealle to disturb Europe and sweep the way for coavertig the Republic into an Empire. Thisjournal wan ammo the eery first to denounce the author of that State coup, and there was at once throughout the country a cry of indignation against the act which had pissed France in the power • of the army whiled by Lours NAPOLEON. In this country of free opinion some thought the coup d'eltat an admirable thing, but however they might differ from the views we loudly expressed upon the subject, none could fail to mark the distinction constantly drawn between the indig nation felt towards the author of the tragedy of December 2nd, and the nation which suffered by the doings of that blood-stained day. We quarrelled with the self-made Despot, not with the people he coerced. We lamented the constitutional Government that was overthrown, but demonised only its destroyer. It might suit the cowards whos feared, or the parasites who profited by the new order of things, to confuse as much as possible the real state of the case. But no ingenuities of the in terested can change the facts, or blot out the printed words now on record—words that attacked not France or Frenchmen, but the man who took forcible posses sion of the one and the other. Following quickly on the coup d'e , tat, came the troublesome but common sense suggestion that the man who had betrayed one nation was a dangerous neighbour, and one to be held in suspicion, and to be on our gu ard against ac cordingly. The steps that followed need not again be told. Defences were looked to;'some ships were called to our shores, and men soon again felt the calm which attends the; fulfilment of what is thought a duty. Forewarned is forearmed; and Lows NAPO LEON'S civility to England and respect for English men will be none the less for the knowledge that they are prepared for any contingency. Yet the measures of precaution popularly demanded as proper for the occasion were declared by certain very esti mable people to be not only improper but quite un necessary and—very alarming. They overlooked the distinction existing in the case, and pointed to in the journals. They persisted in regarding France and Louis NAPOLEON as one and the same, and de clared that English sympathy with Frenchmen, and English objections to the author of the coup d'&at, were highly dangerous. Against the increased esti mates for ordnance and navy, however, not a single Member of Parliament recorded a vote ! and the aaly fruit of the agitation seems to be the very placid document, so very extensively and respectably signed, which was on Monday presented to the Emperor. his this document some will doubtless object. Its text is harmless enough, if we except the passages in which a belle( is expressed that the people of France suspect the people of England of feelings of an unfriendly character, an. 3 the paragraph in which the press misunderstood or misrepresented. The feeling of the people of England towards the people of France has for years past bee n most cordial. Their interests are identical. No En glishman can wish to cut the throat of a Gallic neighbour ; and the feeling of Frenchmen towards Las were well illustrated by the national invitation to Paris, which we began by referring to. The City address is, therefore, quite right when it says : We believe ao such (ill) feelings exist on the part of the Seg all people towards the people of Francs- We believe the welfare of both nations to be chant? interwove* , so well a mutually advantageous and enten.lioll,toomettial iateg' sous, as in • common participatio.'t a all Illal loran' meats of art and science. Rejoicing in the ram** that nearly forty year! have passed since the Jail salaafka al hostilities between Franca and England, we regard ma son viction that European wars should be rersmahond only to be deplored, for tit.• sacrifice of life and tremor* with which they were attended—the hindrances they inte."Posso to all useful enterprise and social advancement—the .‘Oll l 7 sad unchristian feeling+ which they evoked in their pi osVa's— and the heavy financial burdens which they left hind them at their ease—considerations which supply the moat powerful motives to every individual in the European c qOt munity, to avoid, and to oppose, by every means in hit power, whatever may tend to cause the recurrence of such evils. But if this expression of good will was to be sent across the Channel from the people of England to the people of France, should not the thousands and mil lions of the British nation have been invited to sign it? And should it not then rather have been pre sented to the people of Franco through the Mayor of Paris, who invited the dignitaries of the City of London to the festivities of 1831, than to the Ex Pisitoe who pat those people in duress? The opening of the Declaration does not state that it was to be presented to the Emperor of FRANCE. It has nothing in its substance that indicates any intended deputa tion to Paris. hid all those who signed the docu ment know that Mr. Powi.e.a was to go with a select party to the Tuilei see. to lay this list of English peace ful commercial adherents at the foot of the French throne? Louts tfoLEON was, of course, polite. and the report states that the deputation " were de lighted with their reception"—cot the less so. doubt less, for the civil invitation to dine with the EMPEROR and EMPRESS. BONAPARTE, of course, said he desired peace; but, then, after his broken oath to the amstitution of the Republic, his word must ever be taken only for what it may be worth—even if it be not read by con traries. As a piece of civility, there can be no great harm, if no great good, in the whole affair. If it tends to convince a single unbeliever in our wishes for peace it will be a good thing done; but many will, perhaps, be inclined still to think that a national invitation to a chosen party of the French people—such as they sent to us—would have been a more satisfactory proposition than this requital of Republican hospitality by something very like adula tion of the EMPEROR. But, " All's well that ends well," says one of BIIAKSPERE . B titles; and, tried by this test, no one will complain of the concluding paragraph of the City Document which has called forth these observations. Most heartily do we coin cide with our fellow-citizens when they say, " We conclude this declaration, by proclaiming our earnest desire for the long continuance of cordiality and good will between Frenchmen and Englishmen —our determination to do all in our power to uphold the same—and our fervent hope, that the inhabitants of both nations may, in future, only vie with each other in cultivating the arts of peace, and in extending the sources of social improvement, for their common benefit." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAT ETENT:co The Moniteur contains s decree maintaining the Count Argout, senator and governor of the Bank, in his functions as president of the commission of sur veillance of the Csisses d'Amortissemcnt. In an article on the present position of affairs in the East, the ministerial Austrian Correspondence contends that the Russian claims are no way tend ing to violate the independence of Turkey, nor at all likely to disturb the peace of the world. The Moniteur of this morning publishes every one of the 4,000 names appended to the Peace Declara tion, which are thus secure of a page in history. All France will speedily know who are the Englishmen that have stood prominently forward as the advocates of friendly relations between the two countries. The Moniteur is placarded, by the care of the prefects and their subordinates, in every considerable village in France, and children will study English nomencla ture in its columns of to-day. Fortunately, and much to the credit of the compositors of the 3foniteur, the spelling of the English names is singularly correct. A telegraphic despatch, dated Marseilles, 28th, states that the Egyptus has anchored at La Cistat, but she does not bring any accounts from Constanti- nople more recent than those received via Vienna. On the 24th tho English squadron was still at Malta. Another telegraphic despatch from Marseilles announces the departure of the steam corvette the Caton, having on board M. do Lacour, French ambassador at Constantinople, and his suite. The corvette sailed on the morning of the 27th. After landing M. de Latour, the Caton will proceed to join the Levant squadron. A vague impression prevailed at the Bourse to day that foreign intelligence of an unfavourable cha iracter had been received, but I have not been able to trace it to any authentic source. It has been remarked that the Moniteur has not published any of the telegraphic despatches from Constantinople. The Conitau:ionnel, and other go- vernment journals habitually suppress any part of a despatch which they do not happen to like. For instance, they omitted from the despatches of Saturday last the fact that Prince Menchikoff had sent despatches to the Russian consul at Jerusalem relative to the Holy Places, and they said nothing of the continued military movements in Odessa, or of the concentra tion on the frontier of the three corps dormer under General Luders, the commander-in-chief of the army of occupation in the Moldo-Walac.hian provinces. It is worthy of notice that the despatches sent to the Russian consul at Jerusalem immediately after an in terview between Menchikoff and Rifaat Pacha were addressed to the consul " general," a desitination lied for the first time in describing that functionary. It is confidently said that the purport of these de- I spatches was to order the consul to put the affairs of the Holy Places "provisionally "upon the footing on which they were prior to the mission of M. de La valette. _ It is positively stated that Prince Kourskin was the bearer of an autograph letter from the Emperor of Russia to Napoleon 111., which he delivered into his own hands at a private audience. A decree, signed by M. Fould, in the name of the Emperor, is published to-day regulating the imperial liveries, which are green and red, with gold embroi dery. Another decree, by the prefect of police, pro- hibits all private individuals from using the imperial liveries. I understand the occasion for issuing these decrees was that the Emperor observed at Long champs sevetal carriages, and among others that of Mdlle.ltackel, with footmen behind whose dresses were undistinguishable from those of his own servants. Lieutenant-General Count Gustave de Loewen hielm, envoy extraordinary of the King of Sweden, and M. Kisseleff, envoy extraordinary of the Em peror of Russia, had audiences of the Emperor yes terday, to present the reply of their sovereigns to the letters announcing the imperial marriage. It is reported from Rome that the Pope has an in timate councillor, recently received into his confi dence, who strongly urges him, against the wishes of the large majority of the College of Cardinals, to ac cede to Louis Napoleon's desire, and come to Paris to crown him. This new confidential adviser is the Capuchin Monk Recanati, who was made a cardinal the other day. Little more than six moths ago Father Recanati was introduced mysteriously into the Quirinal Palace by the Pope himself, who ordered an apartment to be prepared for the reception of a " poor Capuchin." Cardinal Antonelli sagacious from the fiat of the presence of a riv al, humbly inquired of his holiness the reason for this unusual in trodution of a new inmate into the Papal residence. The Pope simply replied that Father Recanati was a holy person, whose spiritual counsel he desired to have. The wily minister, fain to appear contented with this answer, took an opportunity subsequently of letting his master see that he was not deceived by it. On the occasion of settling with the Pope the list of cardinals to be created at the last consistory but one, the Pope told .him he would have no diffi culty in filling up . the blanks, as all Rome knew that so and so, repeating the names, were to receive the red hat. "You have omitted one," said the cardinal. "% he ?" said the Pope, affecting surprise. " Father Recanati." Oh! the poor man, he never thought of such a thing." "Rome,however,talks of him as being on the point of promotion," the cardinal persisted. "Oh, well," said the Pope," if Rome points to him for this dignity, he must be worthy of it,and we will name him at the next consistory." He was named accord ingly, and people are now inquiring at the Vatican when Cardinal Antonelli will be overthrown and the " poor Capuchin" installed as minister in his place. The Court of Rome recently altered a paper, sent for signature from Paris, in a manner which has given great offence. In the patents of the new Bishops of Coutaoce and Grenoble, the Emperor was described as " Napoleon 111., Imperatorem Francerum." The cardinals change d this sentence to "Napoleon, Imperatorem Gallorum." A scheme for naturalising bull fights, a la mode d'Espagne, in Paris, which the lovers of new sensa tions confidently expected to see realised this year, has received a death-blow from an unexpected quar ter. Torreadore, picadors, and bulls were all engaged by the director of the Hippodrome, who had calculated on the patronage of the Empress fo. - an entertainment which she frequently witnessed delight at Madrid. Out of deference to northern prejudices, it was announced in the programme that only be,ils were to be killed, and that precautions would be ...Am to secure the torresdors from danger. It mighterhape, have been difficult strictly to adhere to thia condition, for I have myself seen a man in the cireuk when irritating a muffled bull, not intended to be slaughtered, knocked down, trampled upon, a, - ;(1 carried off the field senseless. But all speculation on the subject is at an end, for, at the moment when the _license was on the point of being granted, the Empres,: e q UeSted that the affair should not be suffered to proce.vd, as she would be sorry to be the occasion of introu'u:ing Spanish cus toms into France. The Medial are shortly expected bore from Mar seilles, and I believe a deputation from the Bible THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1853. Society of London will come to Paris to receive them on their arrival, and to offer their assistance and en couragement in the name of British , protestantism. They have been visited at Marseilles by the British consul and almost all the English residents in that city. Their hotel is constantly crowded with sympa thet►c or curious visitors. Aa important amendment has been proposed in the Corps I,egislatif to the bill relative to the bank de retruite ear la riellesse. The bill, as framed by govern ment, allowed interest on deposits at the rate of 4i per cent. The amendment proposes to reduce the interest to 4 per cent from July 1, 1833, with a sti pulation that no further reduction can be made till July 1, 18.58. Another amendment proposes to limit the amount of the deposit receivable from any one person to 2,000 fr. instead of 3,000 tr. On Thursday last Sir William Boyd had audience of the Emperor at the Tuileries. Sir William pre sented to his Majesty the first, second, and third volumes of his " History of Literature," and tendered the homage of the dedication, which was graciously accepted. His Imperial Mnjesty presented to Sir William Boyd a magnificent gold snuff-box, richly set with diamonds, ass testimony of his esteem. All descriptions of Rentes have experienced a se rious fall to-day, and the Bourse generally has been of a dull and declining character. The Three per Cents., for cash, which maintained their position yes terday while the same description of securities for the account feU 15c., have gone down 40c. to-day, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have added 15c. to the fall of sc. which took place the previous day. For the account the Three per Cents. have given way to the extent of 40c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 10c. Bank Stock, which has been steadily declining for some days past, has again gone down, the fall being no less than 50f. At the close of business the following were the quotations :—For cash : Three per Cents., 79f. 50c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 50c. For the account : Three per Cents., 79f. 40e. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 50c. Bank Stock, 2,590. Latest quotations received to-day by telegraph : Frankfort : Austrian Loan, Five per Cent., 97 ; ditto, Four-and-a-Half per Cent., 77Z; ditto, Three per Cent., 52} ; Bank, 1,544; Spanish Three per Cents., 431; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 991. Vienna: New Loan, 94; ; Loan, 1851, 107 ; Lombardo-Venetian ' 1001; Bank, 1,420. Berlin : Loan, Five per Cent., 101 Z; Obl. Three-and-a-Half per Cent, 921; Bank, 1081; Russian Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 1041. THE LONDON DEPUTATION AND THE FRENCH EMPEROR. PARIS, MONDAY ArmßNooN. The Emperor received this morning the deputation of London merchants charged to express the desire of their fellow-citizens for continued friendship with France. The reception took place at the Tuileries, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and two of his colleagues. Sir James Duke intro- duced the members of the deputation, Messrs. Mas terman, Glyn, Barclay, S. Gurney. Dent, W. Glad stone, Fowles, and Sir Edward N. 13uxton, Bart. Sir James, previous to presenting the numerously signed document with which he was charged, ad dressed the Emperor in the following terms : " Sire—We have the honour and the gratification to ap pear before your Majesty, for the purpose of presenting to your Majesty, and to the French nation, a declaration from the cciamercial community of the metropolis of the British Empire, embodying the sentiments of amity and respect by which they are animated towards their brethren of Frazee. " The which have called forth this decla- ration being fully stated in the declaration its , ..4f, bearing the sign of upwards of 4,000 of the merchants, bankers, and trader' of London, we have only to add the expression of our conviction that this document conveys at the same time a faithful representation of the feelings of the people of England at 'arse. " In conclusion, Sire, we beg to express to your Imperial Majesty our fervent hope that, under your reign, France and England may be slew united in a friendly and mu tually beneficial intercourse, and that from the friendship of these two great nations, results may ensue favourable to the pesos of the world, and the happiness of mankind." Sir James then read the following address: " We, the nedersigned merchants, banker,, traders, and others, of London, feel ourselves called upon at this time publicly to express the concern with which we learn, through various channels of information, that an impression exists In the minds of the people of France that feelings of an unfriendly character are entertained towards them by the people of England. " We think it right emphatically to declare that we believe no each feelings exist on the part of the English peopli e towards the people of France. We believe the welfare o both nations to be closely interwoven, as well in • mu tually advantageous and commercial intercourse as in a common participation in all the improvements of art sad soignee! • joni ng in the reflection that nearly forty years have paned since the final cessation of hostilities between France and England, we record our conviction that European wan should be remembered only to be deplored, for the sacrifice of life and treasure with which they were attended —the hindrances they interposed to all useful enterprise and social advancement—the angry and unchristian feel ings wbich they provoked in their progress—and the heavy financial burdens which they left behind them at their close—considerations which supply the most powerful motives to every individeal in the European community, to avoid, and to oppose, by every means in his power, whatever may tend to cause the rec of such evils. .. We desire to remark, that if in that expression of opinion on public questions which the press of this country is accustomed to exercise, it is found occasionally to sixth with apparent harshness xf the goverment'• or the institutions of other states, the same is not to be understood in a spirit of national hostility, or as desiring to give offence. We feel that with the internal policy or mode of govern ment which the French nation may thick good to adept for itself, it is not for British subjects to interfere, further than heartily to desire that it may result in peace and happiness to all interested therein. We conclude this declaration, by proclaiming our earnest desire for the long continuance el cordiality end goodwill between Frenchmen and Englishmen—our determination to do all is our power to uphold the same--and our fervent hope, that the inhabitants of both nations stay, in future. only vie with each other in cultivating the arts of peace, and in extending the sources of social improvement, for their common benefit." His Majesty thus replied in the English language: " Gentlernen,—l am extremely touched by this manifes tation. It confirms me in the confidence with which the good sense of the English nation has always inspired me, 'During the long stay I made in England, I admired the liberty she enj2ys—thanks to the perfection of her institu tines. Nevertheless, at one period last year, I feared that public *Onion was misled with regard to the true state of France, and her sentiments towards Great Britain. But the good faith of a great people cannot be long deceived, and the step which you now take is a striking proof of this. " Ever since I have held power, my efforts have constantly tended to develop the prosperity of France. I know her interests. They are not different from those of all other civilised nations. Like you, I desire pesos ; and to make it sure, I wish, like you, to draw clew the bonds which unite our two countries." Sir James Duke then presented the members of the deputation individually to the Emperor, and his Ma jesty conversed with each of them in the most friendly way. The declaration and signature* fill a sheet of parchment 92 feet in length. Amongst the signa tures are those of Mr. klasterman, M.P., director of the East India Company; Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P,; Mr. Challis, M.P., Lord Mayor; Alderman Thompson, M.P., chairman of the St. Catherine's Docks; Mr. Hankey, jun., governor of the Bank of England; Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid, Bart.; Mr. Samuel Gurney, Mr. W. Gladstone, Mr. R. C. L. Bevan, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Joshua Bates, Mr. C. Baring Young, Sir R. P. Glyn, Bart., Mr. G. Carr Glyn, M.P., Sir E. Buxton, Bart., Mr. G. Moffatt, ALP, Mr. Samuel Oregano, M.P., chairman of the China and East India Association, Mr. T. W. Weguelin, governor of the Russia Company, Mr. Cattley, chairman of the London Dock Com pany, Mr. J. D. Powles, Mr. Travers, Mr. Cave, chairman of the West India Association, Mr. Robert Hawthorn, chairman of the East and West India Dock Company, Mr. J. P. Kennard, Mr. A. Han bury, Mr. It. Pally, Mr. T. A. Hankey, Mr. J. La bouchere, Mr. J. Capel, Mr. R. Cunliffe, Mr. J.' Boner, Mr. C. Duff Gordon, Mr. J. G. Fry, Mr. P. Rolt, M.P., Mr. Salmons, Mr. P. F. Robertson, M.P., Sir J. Easthope, Bart. ; Mr. Smith Travers, Alderman Moon, Mr. C. F. Huth, Alderman Hunter, Sir J. Hall, Kat. ; Mr. Arch. Hastie, M.P.; Messrs. Longman, Brown, and Co.; Mr. I. Montefiore, Mr. Sadleir, M.P. ; Mr. R. Keating, M.P. ; Mr. Kinnaird, M.P. ; Alderman W. Cubitt, M.P.; Mr. J. Braith waite, Mr. Brocklehurt, M.P., etc. The deputation then retired. Its members speak highly of the courtesy and good-will with which they have been received is Paris. To-morrow they are to dine with the Emperor in the private apartments of the Empress at the Tuileries. Letters from Bayonne, of the 23rd, announce the safe arrival of the Coantess de Montijo thus far on her journey. She had been waited on by the civil and military authorities of the town, and had been serenaded by the band of the 35th Itegt. The Queen of Spain has given orders that throughout the whole line of road from Irun to Madrid the moths! of the I French Empress should be escorted by a ',lard of I . honour. A shocking tragedy has occurred at Lyons. On Friday last M. Emile de Vauxonne, president of the Council-general, president of the Municipal Commis sion of Lyons, and a judge of the Imperial Court there, went to the shop of M. Gobert, a gunmaker, in the Rue St. Dominique, with a brace of pistols, which he desired to have repaired. While explaining the defects in the pistols he tried the lock springs several times, holding the hammer with his thumb, and letting it down gently upon the nipple. Presently the hammer slipped from his hold, the pistol went off, and M. Gobert, who was close to the muzzle, fell, exclaiming, "I am a dead man." He, however, rose almost immediately, and managed to walk into an adjoining room, where his cries for help . alarmed his wife, who immediately uttered ' piercing screams. The unfortunate M. de Vauxonne completely lost his presence of mind, seized the other pistol, which was also loaded, and shot himself dead on the spot. This event has caused an immense sensation in Lyons, where the deceased was a man of great influence, and extensively known. His precipitate self-inflicted expiation of an involuntary offence is the more affecting, since it appears that M. Gobert has merely received a flesh wound in the breast, and is in no danger. A return has just been published, showing the money value. according . to an approximative esti mate of the whole materiel of the war department on 31st December, 1631. The following us a reca pitulation : Franca. Central Administration Military Justice Provisions 13,600,356 Firing and lighting Hoapitah Clothing Camp materials Military bedding Military equipages 3,425,817 General " lternoute " Cavalry equipments Forage General war depot 2,949,370 New Map of France Artillery Engineers 17,246,675 Military schools 1,793,387 Invalids 1,826,619 Government of Algeria 238,558 Indigenous Service in Algeria 29,565 Maritime Service in Algeria Provincial Administration in Algeria Financial Service in Algeria Colonisation Service in Algeria Civil Works in Algeria Powder and Saltpetre General Total 460,427,661 On the 31st December, 1830, the general total was 448,857,481 f. Thus the increase during the year 1861 was 11,570,180 f. Marshal St. Arnaud is reported to be so far con valescent as to be able to examine the map of Kaby lia. The fact of his choosing such a subject for vacation study, is a pregnant confirmation of the opinion I expressed when the Marshal left Paris that he would not return as Minister-at-War. Ho is fully expected in Africa to head a grand expedition against the Kabyles, for which the movement of General Ileibillon upon Batna, which I lately noticed, is understood to be merely a preparatory step. It is said that some Arab chiefs were lately pre sented to Prince Napoleon, as the future head of the government of Algeria. There is a very general im pression that a decree, appointing him to that post, will appear in the Moniteur within a few days. On the other hand, some people say the Prince will make a tour in Africa, to make himself acquainted with the country, and cultivate popularity with its inhabitants, betore he is intrusted with its govern ment. The inauguration of the Emperor's tomb, in the Invalides, was fixed for May 3, the anniversary of his death, but as that day this year will be Ascension Day, it has been decided that the ceremony shall take place on the 4th. Tho Emperor and the im perial family will, of course, attend, and deputations from every corps of the army and navy will come to ' Paris on the occasion. - - SWITZERLAND. ATTEMPTED COUP-DE-MAIN AT LUGANO. BRUSSELS, SUNDAY EVENING. You have already been briefly informed by tele graphic despatch that there had been a revolutionary movement in Lugano, the capital of Ticino, and that another one was expected to be made in Locarno, a town about six Swiss leagues distant from the former. The intelligence to that effect was brought to this city in a telegraphic despatch from Cologne and in one direct from Berne—despatches based on two sent by Colonel Bourgeois from Ticino to the federal authorities of Switzerland. I may add that the valley of the Cella is the portion of the canton of Ticino where clerical influence is the most predominant, and where a blind attachment to the Papal religion renders the inhabitants easy victims to Austrian in trigues. Several of the expelled Ticinese belonged to that valley, and it was precisely those men who, during their forced journey from Lombardy to Switzerland after the order to expel from the former all the natives of Ticino had been issued, were urged by the Austrian police to overthrow the liberal government of the canton, a government which, on account of its warm attachment to liberty, and its success in exposing and defeating the schemes of the clerical partisans of Austria, is specially ob noxious to the Vienna cabinet. Influenced by the interested misrepresentations of their clergy, and, as stated in the report of Colonel Bourgeois, well sup plied with money and with weapons of attack, some hundreds of the inhabitants of the above valley aftretly made their way to Lugano, and, all at once, assembled on the principal piazza of the little capital, just as the fanatic followers of Garrard assembled a year or two ago, and with like intents, on the chief square of Fribourg. Fortu nately in the one case as in the other, the civic guards ran to arms, prevented the insurrec tion and arrested fifteen of the leaders. Colonel Bourgeois also reported that a like movement was apprehended at Locarno, and he took immediate steps to prevent it. This turn of affairs will envenom the Austro-Swiss question, and at the same time will, probably, arouse the federal authorities in Berne to more energetic measures than they have hitherto taken for the defence of the country. The Federal Council published on the 26th its reply to the Austrian note of the 15th instant. The text of this document, which sustains the accuracy of our previous summary, will be found at large on another page. A letter from Berne of the 26th states that the Canton of Ticino is tranquil, but that as a measure of precaution the troops at Lugano have been rein forced. The governments of Zurich and the Vaud have declined to comply with the invitation of the Council of State of Geneva to convoke the Federal Diet. They say they have confidence in the Federal Coun cil for the termination of all existing differences. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 23rd publish a report of the sitting of the Senate on the 22nd, on the mo tion proposed by the majority of the comoittee on the affair of General Narvaez. The principal s yeaker was the Minister of War. He declared that Ge.neral Narvaez, when in power, had done the very thing of which he now complained; and that the terms of the royal decree respecting him were also justified by those which he had used when minister in de priving Captain-General the Marquis de Rodil of his places, grade, and decorations. 'Cho minister com plained of the publication of the remonstrance ad dressed by General Narvaez to the Queen. He said he would not accuse him of having personally caused it, but thought he was bound to protest against it,in order to free himself from all suspicion. M. Ito de Olano replied, and made a warm enloginm on Nar vaez, though, he said, he had when in power carried the principle of authority to excess. In the sitting on the 23rd the debate was resumed by the Minister of Marine, and was continued by M. Pena Aguayo, who maintained the right of the general to return to the Senate. The Minister of the Interior proceeded to reply, and was spetking when the post left. GERMANY. The Oest Correspondens, a semi-official organ of the Vienna cabinet, published on the 24th an article on Lord John Russell's House of Commons speech relative to the sequestrations imposed by Austria upon the property of Lombard emigrants. Lord John Russell, upon the occasion referred to, stated that instructions had been sent from the Foreign office to Lord Westmoreland, in order that he might support the claims of the cabinet of Turin, as far as regards those of the Lombardian emigrants who are ' naturalised in Piedmont. The Correspondenz re minds its readers that in 1850 the Austrian minister in London was instructed to lay some just complaints on the part of the Papal government (which had no I representative in England) before the British cabinet, when Lord Palmerston refused to listen to Count Colloredo, because ho Was not the accredited agent of the Papal court. Au exactly similar case also oc curred in the following year in respect to Tuscany, to which the House of Austria has hereditary rights. The semi-official organ finds it strange that a go vernment which confines the right of diplomatic in• tervention within such narrow and arbitrary bounds should now meddle in the reclamation of Sardinia, notwithstanding that the latter has its own minister in Vienna, and the Royal Family of England has neither hereditary rights nor reversionary claims on the Sardinian territories. The Currespontlenz adds that the reply of the Vienna cabinet to England will express these sentiments. A German correspondent writes to claim Mrs. Hitzfeld, the lady from America, whose condemna tion in Baden for political offences we yesterday chronicled, as his compatriot. " Many German women," he observes, " have had to expiate their republican zeal by imprisonment and exile. In all the popular movements of Southern Germany, more especially in the insurrections which have taken place in the mountains of the Black Forest, and on the Rhine, women have displayed the most ardent enthusiasm for the republican cause. In 1849 Madame Matilda Hatzfeld took a most active part in the revo lution. With arms in her hands, and in the foremost ranks of the democratic army of Baden and the Pfalz, she fought against the soldiers of the King of Prus sia, and her courageous conduct is chronicled with a tribute of praise in the records of that war. In 1848- 49 there was a regular organisation of women's societies (Franenvereine) in Baden. These unions served the revolution by all the means in the power of the weaker sex—they attended to the prim:mere, made garments for the soldiers of the people, sup plied them with lint, cared for the wounded, and made cartridges. Many women, like Mrs. Hatzfeld, threw themselves courageously into the armed strife, and by their example inflamed the courage of the men. Of this honour, which they won so dearly, my matrywomen should not be deprived." TIIE CAPE OF GOOD lIOPE. We add the following to our telegraphic summary of yesterday : The accompanying extracts from the South African Colonial Adcertiser contain all the news of import anoe from the 24th of January to the 23rd of February: Since the return of the Governor from Basutuland, all has been quiet in that quarter, his Excellency having wisely closed accounts with blushed], without leaving any claim or balance as a germ of future litigation—bad debts written off, and doubtful ones abandoned. Ile has pur sued the same course with l reili, settled everything with clearness and precision, and with every prospect of equ►l In British Caifraria, his Excellency is making prepara tions for holding the Amatolas as a sattlement, stationing forts, or military poste, in strong positions, and surrounding them to within the distance of one mile on all sides, with resident settlers, to whom, on account of services ren dered during the war, he offers small patches of ground capable of cultivation. on condition of residfnce end readiness to act with the military for the general defence. This im plies the expulsion of the native inhabitants, and the ex clusion of the Kaffirs from that district, and involves the necessity of maintaining a considerable force among these mountains in a state of watchfulness. . . It appears also that Sandilli has at last abandoned his hopeless contest with British power, and retired from Kaffraria, which was all that was peremptorily required by the governor. lie has announced this fact by a message, and signified his submission. He is now beyond the Km, together with all the principal chiefs of his tribe—Macomo, Ants, and Tots, so that u far as present appearances go the Kaffir war is closed. . . Such is the substance of the latest intelligence from King William'a Town, down to the 13th of February. The following official notices contain all that is certainly known of these affairs:— GOVERNMENT NOTICE. King William's Town, Feb. 12, 1853. Whereas his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and High Commissioner of British Katfraria is desirous—now that the rebellious Gaika tribe has been expelled from the Amatolas and other lands formerly occupied by them, but now forfeited to the crown—that certain townships and villages in the close vicinity of sufficient military posts and garrisons, to provide for their security, should be estab lished without delay. And whereas numerous applications for land have been made by deserving persons who have fought nobly in the ranks of colonial levies and other corps, during the rebel lion, now happily suppressed, his Excellency the Comman der-in-Chief and High Commissioner is pleased to order as follows : 1. That, commencing with the Keiskamma Hoek—where there is • permanent barrack and fort, and where there is abundance of good land and water, as well as of open land for pasture, with capability of irrigation, there shall be traced and defiged a certain surrounding space of not more than one mile radius, in the first instance, but to be enlarged hereafter if found expedient, within which apace building and garden lots or erven shall be laid out. These building lots will not exceed a quarter of an acre each, as the first object is to form as compact a town as pos sible ; but allotment gardens will be laid out, as far as prac ticable, having a frontage to the river and outside of the space reserved for the town ; and these will contain a space of one acre, or half an acre, each, as may be desired, which will be let for one or three years on lease, on easy terms, to holders of erven in the town, who desire to cultivate them. In like manner larger spaces for cultivation will also be let to persons who may wish to cultivate on a more extensive scale ; but in every ease gardeners will be required to en close their gardens with a sufficient fence : the wood and stone in the close neighbourhood will furnish abundant materials. . . . . 2. That all persons desiring to become possessed of ouch seven may send in their applications in writing, backed by the certificate of the officers under whom they have served, if military, or by a magistrate, if not military, addressed to the resident magistrate at King's William Town. 3. That a board shall be forthwith formed, consisting of the resident magistrate, an officer of Royal Engineers, and one other member whom the Chief Commissioner may think fit to appoint, to consider the said applications, and make the allotment accordingly. 4. These grants shall, in the first instance, be provisional, and be held on the same tenure as those granted at King William's Town, but to be convertible into freehold or as- MiIIIII quit tent, u hereinafter provided, on the final settle ment of the district. And should the crown see fit to abandon the project of the proposed settlement in the Ama tolu, the holders of such grants shall receive an equivalent in land elsewhere, or compensation in money, at the option of the government, for the value of all dwellings erected on their allotment', also for their field or garden crops. 6. The said seven, so granted, shall not be alienable until they shall have been two years in occupation. Each erf so granted must be occupied. and some sort of dwelling built in such position as shall be directed, and inhabited bonee-fede within six months after the notification of the grant to the appliunt ; otherwise that grant will be can celled, and the erf transferred to another. And an erf once occupied and a dwelling constructed, should it be alma dosed and left unoccupied for six months, it will in like manner be forfeited ; but it will be lawful to let or lend is, so that bona-fide occupation be ensured. 6. The owners of crust will have free commonage for pasture within such limits of the Forest of the Amatolu as the officer commanding the post may consider safe ; and certain kraals, either common or private, will be constructed at such places as may be selected by an appointed officer of Royal Engineers, and all cattle must be duly brought in to kraal at the appointed hour. 7. The free use of all firewood, and all such timber as may be required for building or for constructing fences, will be granted ; but no timber will be cut down and carried away for purpose. of trade out of the said forest, without license granted by the Chief Commissioner, on such terms as may be hereafter appointed. 8. Every male inhabitant above the age of 16 will be re quired to provide himself with a gun, and be prepared to assist in defence of his own property and that of the com munity, in case of need. 9. The crown retain right of resumption of and allotment fOT public purposes, compensating the owner or occupier. 0. No higher rate of quitrent than ss. per annum for eac h erf shall be atfis-d on a town allotment, granted within the first limits now appointed. 11. viola and agricultural implements and garden seeds w ill be ~.-eiven gratis to each holder of a building lot en occupation. 12. Rations will be given to the occupiers of erven in this new townsh ip, for themselves, and wives, and children, for the first six m.mths, from the date of their occupation. By command of .his excellency the Governor and High Commissioner. W. F. Lthutu, Sec. to 11. M. high Commissioner. PEACE. The following proclamation has just come to hand. The terms are just and reasonable. But the sth article should hare more clearly expressed what is no doubt its real mean ing and intent, namely, that Kreili should be bvuu:l to we his best endeavours to recover and restore stolen property traced rote his country, and to seize the offenders and de liver them up to the colonial authorities, fur trial in the country where the offence w.O committed. This is all that one independent state can require of another. As the words stand,li is bound to do what Me. be imp u s.ibl e: and to try a man on the Bashee an offence co mmitte d in King William's Town, or Graham's Town, which could never be intended. The Governor hu made one great step in advance—he has abandoned equivalents. I lents for stolen property which could nut be found, and where guilt could not be proved either against the chief or any of his people, were every way impolitic, exciting dia. content, and leading to resistance and war. PILOCL.IMITION By his Excellency Lieut.-General the Hon. Gen. Cath cart, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, and of the pendencies thereof, Ordinary and Vice-Admiral of the same, and her Majesty's High Commissioner for the settling and adjustment of the affairs of the territories in Southern Africa, adjacent and contiguous to the Pastern and North. Eastern Frontier of the said Colony, and Governor at British Kaffraria. Whereas the independent Chief Kreili has recently ma. nifested a desire for peace and reconciliation with her Ma- I jesty's government, and to be again considei ed her 31.ijesty's faithful friend : And whereas, since the invasion of the territory c f th e said chief, in the month of August last, no acts of tvegility have been committed by his people, and no participation in the Gaika rebellion, subsequent to that period, is charge able to them : ' ' ' • • . And whereas, in taken of admission, a fourth instalment of cattle has been voluntarily sent by the chief towards the final settlement of the small remaining portion of the fine imposed upon kim : And whereas the said chief has else declared himself se verely punished, prayed for the remission of the remainder of the fine, and humbly sued for peace : Now, therefore, I do hereby, on her Majesty's behalf, and by virtue of the powers vested in me, proclaim, declare, and make known that all remaining fines of cattle imp ose d by my predecessors on the said Chief Kreili are hereby can. celled, and that peace and amity are hereby teemed be. tween her Majesty and the said Chief Kreili, on the follow ing conditions only:- 1. That the said Chief Kreili shall continue in all things true and faithful to his engagements. 2. That he shall recognise the line of the lnilwe and the Kei as the boundary between her Majesty's territories and his own. 3. That he shall restrain and punish all attempts on tho part of his people to disturb the peace of her Majesty's sub jects, either in the lands allotted to the Tomb lokies, or the other tribes within her Majesty's territories, being on the west side of the Indwe and Kei rivers. 4. That in the event of missionaries or traders being again permitted to reside in the country of the said Chief Kreili with his consent, they must conform to such agree ment u they may make for themselves with the said Chief. The Governor, on behalf of the British government, veil, have nothing to do with ally such agreements, but will hold the said Chief responsible for the security of the lives and property of those British subjects whom ke may allow to live within his territory. 5. That in case of cattle, horses, or other property being stolen from the colony and traced into his country, the said chief shall be bound to recover and restore the stolen pro- perty, and to punish the thieves. G. That the said chief aliall,ts hen demanded of him, cause to be seised and delivered up to the nearest British autho rity, for trial according to law, all persons who shall have committed, or who shall be reasonably suspected of having committed any murder, robbery, or other offence, within the limits of her Majesty's dominions, and who shall be found in the territory of the said chief. God save the Queen! Given under my hand and seal, at litito William's Town, this 14th day of February, 1853. GEORGE. CATHCART, Governor and High Commissioner. By command of his Excellency the Governor and High \V. F. Ltinixe, Secretary to H. E., the Governor and 11. M. High Commissioner. MESSAGE OE hICEILI. Fort Murray, Feb. 10, 18.53. Cmhala, Kreili's chief counsellor, arrived hero this clay, with the following message from the chief Kreili Kreili asks for peace. He begs that Maclean will speak for him. He wishes Maclean to know that he has hers very severely punished. The bocrs and troops entered his country eight times, and each commando took a great many cattle. Kreili wishes for peace, and he now sends 90 head of cattle, and hope' that the government will consider it sufficient, as the troops have taken so many thousands from him. Kreili says he never commenced a war with the govern ment. The Gaikas have always got him into trouble, nod he has been punished for their sins. I have been also desired by lireili to ask Fyno to return to Butterworth, also the missionary and the traders, and he will protect them. He never told them to leave his country; on the contrary, when they went away he was exerting himself to recover the property taken from the traders. I am here to hear the Governor's " word." I am Kreili's mouth, and will &newer for him. 1:14H ALA his mark. (Signed) JOHN Mael.e.tx, Chief Commissioner. Witness (Signed) G. SHEP.T4NE, Interpreter. Fort Murray, Feb. 11, 1553. Sir,—l have the honour to report for the information of his Excellency the High Commissioner, that " Vila," a counsellor of the Chief Kreili, arrived here this morning, with a bundle of assezai, sent by the Chief Kreili to his Excellency, as a token of his submission to her Majesty's governmeut.—l have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) JOHN MACLEAN, Chief Commissioner. MESSAGE FROM SANDILLI. Mali and Mani, special messengers, appear before Col. Maclean, Chief Commissioner, and state as follows: Sandilli, Macomo, Ants, and Tola, together with their counsellors, crossed the Kei three days ago. We left them in Kreili & country, at the junction of the T'Somo with the Kei. Stock, X.ozo, and Ohl are now on their way to cross the Kei. When we left, Sandilli was about sending to acquaint Kreili that he had crossed the Kei. Sandilli ordered us to come direct to Pato, and to ask him to acquaint Maclean that be had crossed the Kai; that he had no more strength to fight with the English; that he is beaten and driven from his country; and that he has obeyed the Governor's " word " by crossing the Kei, and he now asks the Governor where he may desire him to rest in peace. Sandilli desired us to return quickly with a " word" from Maclean. MALI, Y. his mark. MAN I,tt hie mark. Within the colony, near the border, some depredations were committed in the early pert of the mouth, but they appear to have been the last struggles of a party now nearly extinguished. The Governor thus announces the further reduction of the levies or local forces, raised for the service of the interior: " Ist and 2nd Whittlesea levy, with its officers ; the Shiloh Fiago levy and its officers; the junior captain and junior subaltern of the lot European corps; the command pay and allowances to Captain Stevenson, as commanding the Man taunt district; the garrison sergeant-major at Whittleses, and the Albany Rangers will be discontinued at the end of the present mouth. The country about Fort Beaufort is quiet. Some more Hottentot rebels had arrived from Whittleses, prisoners for trial. From the state of markets, and the returns of exports, the colony appears, on the whole, to be in a prosperous state. During the last year nearly six millions pounds of wool were shipped from Port Elizabeth alone. If peace can be preserved on the frontier, and the colonists united indis solubly by the common enjoyment of representative govern ment, " all the clouds that lowered upon our house" will speedily disperse. In political matters the Cape, like the mother country, scarcely knows who is in the saddle, or which mastcr to obey. Downing-street having become a mere caravansary, where wayfaring men tarry only for a night, Government 'louse sympathises with its nomadic character, and holds itself in readiness to blow hot or cold, as the case may be, on the arrival of every mail. Whigs, torics, conservatives, radicals, reformers, and moderates, or the unintelligibles, who— Let "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage,— with mixtures of all these in varying proportions, perplex John Bull, till, like Puff in the play, "he 'll be hanged if he knows kis own composition," and corresponding antics bewilder hie shadows at the Cape. Six years have passed since the local government or constitution was pronounced effete, rotten, dead, by governors, judges, and all sorts of great men. The third year is waning since a "glorious constitution" was graciously granted by her Majesty, and here we are with no constitution at all that anybody knows of; and all that is heard is an occasional exclamation from the cloudy tabernacle of Downing-street, "Do be easy, good people, the luminary is not extinct. It is only 111 eclipse, which cannot be shortened by rattling old drums, pets, kettles, and fryingpans. Lord Grey has it in his hand Sir John Pakington has it in his pocket. Lord Panmure, Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Newcastle, or somebody else, will soon be looking after it. Patience, you know, is a cardinal virtue." To which the colonists reply, "We hold another doctrine. In our circumstances political patience is a deadly sin—a selling of our birthright—a breach of trust against our children—treason against nature. And seeing you can not when you would, and would not when you could, fulfil your promises and put your designs into form and action, we will show you how it may be dune by doing something like it." This is the presentintention of the colonists. They pro- pose to select certain persons in each district, as much as possible in the manner and form set forth in the " Slitter' Articles" or " Draft Ordinances" of the missing constitu tion, with instructions to assemble together and consult on the whole question in all its principles, wear, dad bearings. This work has been for some time in progress, and would have been completed by this time but for the frequent rumours that the constitution war coming, was at hand, was perhaps in the Colo nial-office. But he must be weak indeed who can be 'ant longer deceived by such impostures, or inrudent indeed who pretends to be so. Several of the principal districts have now selected their men, and it is expected that Caps Town, which. for good reasons, has given the first Pm to the country constituencies, will next week, or as soon as possible, join in this most commen,lable and ne”ssarY movement. The fol:oiring reply from the gept,omen selected in the district of Swellendam, to their constitn!nts , will show to readers at a distance in what spit it the business is likely to be conducted: