The Express. — London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

§EOOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. GRAMM BEALL and WOOD law a lame amortment sseand-band Pianofortes, by tin mg eallsonerl makers, as wow Tolland prow—SM. ltesenbaniet. PIKET BAROMETER. —NEGRETTI and A MIMS'S trustworthy sad reiforro Instrosesra, the ass of • .sled—Partteulsrs by post. I, Ilattoo-gartleo . 69, Corshill 125, Regestatreet , sad Crystal Palo" llydszasna. gfte erprtfso. 70 . CIIDZLIIIPONDIENTIL. adverthemente Intended li;Cpeeee —. " London taming Paper, moat be at Oa onion, 10, ktouwwfwasroot, by Two 0 aock on lb. do; of publicatioa. HAYMARKET. THIS Emma), SHE STOOPS TO CoNQUER. Messrs. Howe, Gordon. Chippendale, and &Hirst° .e Mesdames Angel and WiIkIaa—BUCKSTONE AT HOY/. And BORROWING A HUSBAND. Messrs. Howe and Compton : Miss Marla HarrM. PRINCWIBI. THOZYrnuo, AURORA FLiiiD. Zara Herby end &Iron Miss A. Sedirwiek sad MW Henderson. • KILLING TIMK. Mr. eerie Yining and Mir Amy Sedgwiek —And BILAUTIYUL BALD= Muses Oliver, Howard, Hudspeth, and Murray. Lyszpi. Tfa Inanag. ♦ MlDati ATTACK. Mossare. &on sad Wlddicomb Mis. Haus& sad WA Ue.—Asd Till DITILMB MOTTO. Mama lealter. Blom Branham and aaymoad : Mims C. Loden% IL Tam. sad MawlirtAy. Thu Hymns*, TEI WIDOW AND ORTFI ANS.-FAITH, HOPI. AND eHAAITY. with Prete:mew BPECTIAL ILLI7BION.—JWNIZ DiANA Mr. and H,.. 8. Lane. —And Tali CHU= OT GOLD. Mr. di and Mir JIDDA MIDI WATIZ AT WIDOW BAIDGL TO DAT -.Moralos, Id lA. no. 104WW10W—Maisiao. So.....Aftirosio. TA. no. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17. Arran two years' well-won repose Mr. GLAD mows resumes his march as a financial conqueror and liberator. Yesterday there was an eager and anxious crowd of representatives of all sorts of vexed commodities and injured interests, victims of anomalies, members of deputations, minor Income Tax payers in general, waiting in Palace-yard for what revelations the evening was to bring. For some time mat the public mind bad re solved that the Income Tax was to be reduced to 7d., and that the " war duties " on tea and sugar should be taken off. No disclosure of official nerds was needed to anticipate measures of relief which had already been publicly assented to in prin ciple by the CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUIE 7 and only adjourned to a more convenient oppor tunity. So, too, that genteel impostor, Chicory, has been expecting to be pounced upon as soon as it met that searching eye which nothing escapes, from a carrier's cart jogging at the rate of four miles an hour to the " dropped" spirit license of the pub lican who abounds in beer. There were en thusiasts in the Strangers' Gallery, no doubt, who had bet on the " double event "—the reduc• Lion of the income Tax and of the Tea and Sugar Duties, though of late it has been difficult to in dulge any cheerful expectations in the face of troubles at home and abroad. Last year, as Mr. GLADSTONE reminded the House in the opening of his statement, so gloomy was the prospect in Lan cashire that his Budget was of the most guarded and reserved character, founded on the principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating cordials and stimulants. It was nothing more than a good old humdrum honest endeavour to make two ends meet. The financiers of the Opposition jeered this unaccustomed sobriety as the confession of a tippler preaching temperance, and reproached Mr. GT....zeros' as if he were a Prodigal feeding on husks. And now, though the pressure on the resources of the country has be come more and more severe, the richest county in England shrunk to pauperism, the great stream of industry dried up at its source, this incorrigible Prodigal reappears rich and confident, and to-day all Income-tax-paying and tea-drinking England will be killing the fatted calf in honour of his Budget. That a Financial Statement by Mr. Gianerrosx is the finest Parliamentary performance to be witnessed in any Legislature in Europe, if not unequalled in Parliamentary history, is a fact of universal acceptation. List even ing, in a speech of precisely three hours by the clock, without a break, he was exhaustive, ela borate, and minute as a German archaeologist, full of figures as an accountant, and yet as discursive, as elevated, as large in utterance and in thought as the born orator who is conscious of speaking, and the statesman who is proud of mak ing, national history. No doubt there is something of the elephantine power that rends an oak or picks up a pin in this marvellous versatility. No dou'bt the choice and copious diction is sometimes luxuriant to excess, and even redundant in its force and fulness. In some of its details it may seem almost fantastically laborious and mi croscopic, but in its enunciation of great principles of policy, in its study of the causes and conditions of national prosperity, in its sympathy with all wants, and claims, and sufferings, and in its ardent aspirations towards a better future for the multitude of his fellow-countrymen, Mr. GLADIETONHE oratory is not only a rare intellectual effort; it is a good work of an honest man. As food for thought, and as a minis of instruction, a financial statement of this kind pareases a permanent value. Mr. GLIDSTONE desires the country to regard his present Budget as the fulfilment of a solemn undertaking to reduce the burdens of the country, and relax the " tension" of the national finances. Since the beginning of the Russian war, our expen diture bas increased at a rate of more than eighteen per cent. The Caswermoa of the Excazat•ra bene • volently attributes much of this "optional" expen diture—dependent on public feeling at home, on the policy of foreign states, on the prevailing appetite for expenditure, which grows by expendi ture, and which seizes the public, the departments, and responsible Ministers themselves—to the trans formations or reconstructions required by the advance of science in the naval and rn litary ser vices. It is not perhaps Mr. GLAMITONI'II bUlinellll to inquire too closely into this convenient fiction of the War Department. But it is notorious that a Government over the water, not remarkable for military parsimony, has managed its transforms tions and reconstructions far more efficiently and at half the oast. Have not jobs and blunders, and follies, called "fixed forts," swallowed millions of English money, without replacing a wooden fleet, or procuring a serviceable gun I Thanks, however, to our financial and commercial policy, even the accumulated dis tresses of Lancashire and Ireland have not been sufficient to create a deficit in the Treasury. Laid year there was but the shadow of a surplus; this year the revenue shows an increase of 805,0001, and the estimated revenue of the open ing financial year shows a surplus of 3,741,0001. So that in most adverse and trying times the TROUSERS.—SpociaI attention is called to the NEW sPRINO 0001)8, and ho do who do not ndnd paying a fair price fort g No'. pair of trousers depend on matenel and patter that cannot he emelled, at 11A MILTON end KIMPTONSI, TAILORIS, tos Strand ,oppeelte Exeter Hallt EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILKS. Alfred Webb Wks RZWOVID FROM IIONDSTRAIT to 73, BROORSTRZIT, Haboverequare, b 1860. The IN. Trousers torb3nated by birn) is a We New Patterns, 013TTNIC THAN &VIM" THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, CHANcELLog of th e ExcHEQI:EK is enabled to coma' down to the House and propose not only to strike twopence in the pound off the Income-tax, but actually to administer relief to that large class of respectable sufferers who are condemned to pay Income Tax, not out of their abundance, but out of their starvation. Mr. GLuerrose is the first Minister who has had the courage to alleviate the pressure of the Inoome-tax where it is most severely felt, if not to redress the inequalities of its incidence on fixed and precarious incomes. By fixing 1001. as the limit of liability to the Tax, removing the distinction of 1501. incomes, and allowing every taxable income between 1001. and 2001. to make a deduction of 601., he hu conferred a substantial boon on thousands of deserving victims, whose in comes, as he confesses, are tested with terrible accuracy. of Europe and America it is advisable to strike upwards of 3,250,000/. out of the revenues of the kioxdom. To there questioas, however, the Chastenor of the Exchequer will doubtless be able to offer satisfactory replies. (From the Mornisy Herald.) A Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposes large rentis sloes of taxation is sure to conciliate popular feeling, even if be fails to satisfy the more intelligent judgment of the House of Commons. The estimates upon which Mr. Glad stone based those reductions of unpopular imposts, with the announcement of which the public is this morning gra tified, may—indeed, must—appear to all competent judges meet hazardously sanguine ; but the oountry generally will repudiate the cold.blooded criticism which would object to the diminution of the income tar: or the to duty from the fear of a deficit, and will pot itself unanimously on the side of • minister who, for the almost first time in his long financial career, has offered • relief to the mass of tax- Foyers, instead of applying the surplus at his disposal to the repeal of duties which nobody felt. In its main fea tures the budget introduced last night will undoubtedly pain into • law with general approbation. The absurd and vexations propositions for raising a few thousand pounds. which, following what seems to be the law of his being, Mr. Gladstone grafted upon them, will experience, no doubt, the fate which similar puerilities have sustained in former yams. Their rejection will not affect the general suc,:ess of the scheme. THE BUDGET RESOLUTIONS. The following are the resolutions which the Chanoellor of the &chequer will move in committee of ways and means on Thursday next : 3. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Ma jesty, in hen of the duties of customs now charged on tea, the following duties of customs shall, on and after the 25th day of April, 1863, until the Ist day of August, 1Y64, be charged thereon on importation into Great Britain and Ireland, viz,—Tea, the lb., Is. RuoAz. 4. That, towards airing the supply granted to her Majesty, the duties and drawbacks of customs now charged and allowed on the articles undermentioned shall continue to be levied, charged, and allowed, on and after the Ist day of July, 1863, until the Ist d►y of August, 1864, on im portation into Greet Britain and Ireland, or on exportation thereof to foreign parts, or on removal thereof to the Isle of Man for consumption therein, or on deposit thereof in any approved warehouse, upon such terms and subject to such regulations as the Commissioners of Customs may direct, for delivery therefrom a. ships' store* only, or for the purpose of sweetening British spirits is bond, viz. Boger, as denominated in the tariff ; mamma ; almoods, paste al ; cherries, dried ; comfits, dry ; onefectionery ; ginger, preserved ; marmalade ; plums, preserved in sugar; saccades, including all (mita and vegetables preserved in sugar, not otherwise enumerated. Noma TAX. is. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Majesty, there shall be charged, collected, and paid for one year, oommeociog on the 6th day of April, 1863, for and in respect of all property, profit*, and gabs unabated or described as chargeable in the act paned in the 16th and 17th pare of her Majesty's reign, chapter 34, for grunting to her Majesty duties on polite arising from property, professions, trades, and offices, the following rates and duties (that le to Nay) :—For every 20e. of the annual value or amount of all such property, profits, and gains (except those chargeable under schedule (B) of the said act), the rate or duty of 7d. And for and in respect of the omen tin of lands, tenements, bereditamente, and heritages chargeable under schedule (B) of the said act, for every 110 a. of the manual Taor thereof, in Bastard, the rate or &V al 30., end in Soothed and belied respectively, the rate or duty of fied., subject to the provisions combined ia the 28th section of the said act for the exemption of per sons whose whole iamb from every mares *ball be bin than 1001. a year. ittamay PA 6. That, in lien of the duty now pq►ble for and in respect of passengers conveyed for hire upon or aloe( any railway, then shall be charged and paid in Great Britain a duty of excin at and after the rate of 3/. 10a. for 1001. noon all sums reoeived or charged for the fare or conveyance of all such peseempri. 7. That section 9 of the set passed is the 7th and Bth years of her Majesty's reign, chapter 85, which eased that no tax shall be levied upon the rood* of any railway company from the conveyance of pmeesgers at fares not exceeding ld. for each mile by any snob obsep train so in the said act is mentioeed, shall be retailed. CLUB Lica:Paw & That, towards raising the supply puled to her Malady, there shall be charged and paid for *very license to be taken out, yearly, by tie secretary, steward, or ma nager of any club or amosialAen, to ultimates him to sell or supply by retail to the msmben of inch club or association, beer, wins, spirits, sad all ether liquors, for the nal/ing whereof as excise Lome ie required by law to be takes out, th end also tobsoco, the duty of 171. le., sad 5 per mat. aws. Posucia's Bm !acmes. 9. That, towards mixing Ike supplijrated to her lre ieforty, the shall be °barged and f or end upon lorry more license to be taken out y any perms who shall be duly authorised by justices of t he peace to keep • ammo* inn. alehouse, or victualling.houes, and who shall sell beer, cyder, or perry by retail, to be drank or consumed in bin, her, or them house or premier, and who shall not take out • linear to retail spirits, the duty of 31. 3... and 5 per cent thereon, in lieu of the dry now payable on snob limo, to retell beer. llm DILALNI'S ADDITIONAL LIMNING 10. That, towards raising the sup ply granted to her Ida =inwheire any prom shall be d licensed to sell strong eoataining Dot lees than four-and-a-half gal lons, or is not lees than two dosen reputed quart bottles at one ties, there shall be charged and paid for every addi tional each. license which may be taken out to authorise seek parson to sell beer in any lee quantity and in any other manner than as aforesaid, but not to be drunk or con- I seemed on the premises where sold, the duty el 11. la., and 5 pre slat thereon. STAG/ OA/MlAol3.—Exclam LICINSIS AND DMZ.. 11. That there shall be charged sad paid in Gnat Britain for aid I. respect of every original license to be taboo oat yearly to keep, use, or employ a stage carriage which shall be es rusted and licensed to carry not more than eight presesers at ass time, the duty of 11. lls. lid. Awl for and lareepeet of every supplementary llama fee the mane liwhile shall lie taken out tit any WO allowed by esiag the pe ri od for which such °Memel was granted, the duty of Id. And for sad in respect el every sells which say such siege cerriage as sforcesid shall be licensed to travel, the duty of gd. The said duties to be I. lira of the duties now payable by law in respect at such stage carriages mid licenses respectively. SucAL—Rtensx Dorn. 12. That, towards— raising the supply ted to her Majesty, the duties of excise on sugar made in the (Jailed Kingdom, specified in schedule (B) of the act passed is the 20th and 214 years of bar Majesty's reign, chapter 61, shall be continued and be levied and charged until the let day of hairnet, 1864. 011•11 TABLE Liam= (LELAND). 13. That. towards raising the simply granted to her Majesty, so much of any set or ads of pert seem as exempts from legacy duty any given for the edece.tice or rosantemance of poor children is Ireland, or to be in support of any public charitable inatitutioe in or for any porticos merely charitable, shell be repealed. E'en/QUI:I BORDB. 14. That. towards making good the supply vented to her Maloney. the Commiasiomas of her Majesty's Treasury be auteased to rale any sum of mosey, Dot exceeding one million Marl*, by en Irene of Exchequer Bonds. lb. That the priecipal of all Exchequer Bonds +bleb may he so Woad shall be paid off at par. at any period net ex man, six yews from the date of such bonds. 16. That the interest of such Exchequer Bonds shell be payable half-yearly, sad shall be charged upon and issued oat of the ceenalidstad fund of the United Magda" at [ the growing produce thereof. OPINIONS ON THE BUDGET. (From the ?ism.) When we have said that in all its principal fea tures the Chancellor of the Exchequer's financial statement h•s been fully anticipated, we have pronounced its highest praina What is best to be done is dictated by circum stance* forced upon the observation of all, and the moderate degree of humility and commis seam required for aoqui wing in the general verdict is the quality we are to hops for m a Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Gladstone was I able to •anoasee last night • respectable surplus, and a still I more coneidsrable reduction of our war expenditure. It followed, as ► matter of mane, that be also anounced • eorresposdiag reduction of our war taxes— lid. In the pound from the income tax, and Id. a pound in the tea duty. (From the Morning Poet.) There an be little doubt that Mr. Gleastowee budget will meet with & favourable reception. As Yr. Gladitose well observed, hie budget makes so pretemioas to origi nality. The points of dispute to which it may possibly give rise will depend rather upon the dirigibility of re mitting timai to so large an amorist time upon the means by which they are remitted. The quagtiou will probably be &eked, whether in truth the government one rely upon is surplus cd 500,000&, and whether in the present ossiiblen (From be Morning Adrertioer) So fa►ourable a budget could not fail to be received with frequent and hearty plaudits by the house. And no leas heartily will it be hailed in all part and by all classes throughout the country. It will be the moat popular budget which has been submitted to the House of Commons for man► years past, and it will contribute ►ery considerably to increase Mr. Gladstone'■ popularity with all classes, great as that popularity previously wee. People will hereafter become in a measure reconciled to the biome tax ; at least they will, one and all, admit that though still far from pleasant, it is now an evil which is tolerable. Cite Court. WINDSOR CASTLF, APRIL 16. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mantis Stopford. The Duke of Newcas tle arrived at the Cecile and bad an audience of her Majesty. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, arrived in town yesterday. Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain Westerweller, arrived in the afternoon at Buckingham Palace from Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnessee were present last evening in the House of Commas during the &aerial statement. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colooial-olhos from the Governor of Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the governors of the West DAM Wands, British Colombia, Can;da, end to the Lord High of the lonian Island/ THE WIDDING PERMITS OF THE PRINCE AND Putrefies or Watan.—Yesterday the numbers visiting the South Kensington Museum to inspect the wedding presents were 5,930, and it being a strdeut's day the receipts from sixpenny fees amounted to 145/. 13s. About seven hundred per sons per hour inspected the presents, whilst the process of reaching them occupied at least an hour and a half. It is expected that the exhibition will continue open for some weeks. The Marchioness Townsheud has issued cards for a dancing party this evening at her residence, in Ark-hue. Lady Egerton of Tation bas issued esrds for hall oo Friday, the het of May. Lady Harry Vane has issued cards for dancing parties es Monday, the 27th inst., and on Monday, the 4th of May. Lady Hamilton Seymour gave her first assembly bat evening, ►t bee residence in Oresvenorcreseent, which was numerously attended. Lord and Lady Readleeham have arrived at the Clareedos Hotel from Park. Sir Charles Grey bee arrived at the Clarendon Had from Tunteidge Welk Sir Augustus Clifford is still confined to his room from the effects of his late accident, but Is progressing favourably. Colossi Clifford will superintesd the admin.. mica of strangers below the bar of the Hours of Leeds until Sir Augustus's 'wormy. _ _ Yeeterlay afternoon Professor Amsted commenced a came of lectures at the Royal Institution " Oa the Be Winne of Geology with the Allied Sciences." A large deputation of the inhabitants of Lud gate-hill and its vicinity has waited on the Chid Commis sioner of Peblie Works, to ascertain if tins is any peed belay of the government preventing the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway from making the proposed bridge over Ludgate-hill. The feeling of the residents was not dim covered until after the passing of the bill, which now gives the company power to take their own coarse, and to dia regard any opposition. The Post believes that Prince Christian will be 'alit' fied that if the ex-King Otto be asked to abdicate. If be comply, that will remove the difficulty ; and, if be refuse, the Danish royal family will adopt the advice of this government arid regard the Greek throne en in every mass legally vacant, and open tol • new occupant. A Berlin letter says :—" The Queeu has COD` tinaed her voyage through Weimar sad Karlsruhe to Cobloots, where her Majesty intends to remain for some time. It is DO secret how comfortlese the Quoin mat feel herself in the Camarillo air of her OWII court, so abe and the Crown Prise* are the sole deft/ciders of a liberal policy amid the entourage of the King. Shortly before the close of the last month she returned from Coblentz, and she now quits her court again with the recommencement of the warmer seism. The influence upon the King that the Queen s►ould eojoy is in the possession of the Queen Dow ager. Wbo represents the absolute system of Frederick Wil liam IV." MM. Persigny and Billault have been examined at Paris by the commission sent from Loudon in the affair of the Renting Cliratick. They positively deny all com plicity or espemeak with that paper. As the time fur travelling approaches, English mse, it is remarked, should be wanted spirt the mosey changing crimps, misnamed hankers, at the German spu, the true plan being to obtain letters of credit from respect able London establishmeets. Homburg being the worst place where foreigners are cheated in this way, it Arnold be known that there is a joint-stock beak there, whose corres pondents is Ludon are the Urdu Back, Heywood and Co., Hoare and Co., sad Brown, Shipley and Co., through whose @peg traveller' may mfely make all »plait" pro vision. " The marriage of a priest," says the Gazette de Prance, " has just taken plum at Naples. It is the ex- Jesuit Perm, one of the most prominent members al the Italian Enseecipatiou Society, that has given to the world sock a scandal." Tea Palace or Wami.—The poor fellow Woods, who received such severe iojuries by the inosutious handling of the caueou of which he had charge on the day of the Prince's wedding, has left the iofirmsry in a better state than could at one time have been anticipated. His tight arm was amputated just below the elbow by Dr. Harper, the eight of one eye is lost, sod he can at Kenna see only little with the other. Mr. Oacern, the chairman of the oslebratioe committee, laid poor Woods' ass* before the Prince of Wales. and a few days ego be remised the following gratify* communication from lisatemat- General Knollys 'Sandringham, April 9, 1883.—fiir,-1 regret that there should have been soy delay in seksow ledging the receipt of your commuaication with reference to the poor man Woods' accident at Holies* on the night (day) of the Prince of Wake, marriage. AA you have referred to my letter to the Lord Mayor, written by his royalhighness'. direction, I may be permitt ed to explain that, although hie royal higiumes sympathy would doubl y.s ex c ee d to all (of whatever class or locality) who suffered on the masks of the rejoiciags ea his • the relief alluded to in my letter only relieved to metropolis, which seemed to his royal Weenies a s pecial ease, seder the circunistmices calling for his royal high. aw e s contribution, and not applicable to other part' of the country. The DO, of Wales is, however, never in sensible to real distress or misfortune, when properly attested, and on your representation of Woods' case, has desired me to forward you a cheque for 101., which I amid feel obliged by your acknowledging the receipt of, and have the homier to be sir, your most obedient servant, W. KNOU.Tlll.—Richard Capers, Esq., liolbeech."—Mr. Phillips, whose tight thumb had to be amputated through injury received at the muse time, has also progressed most favourably. —Seireford Mercury. Notwithstanding the war in the United States, the Gloom= Missionary Committee them have bees enabled to pey op all their mersirearies this year, and have stelae°, ie head. This has not occurred kw years past. The com mittee have generally here every yes, tram 2,500 to 4,000 dollars in debt. APRIL 17, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (gglom% rumauxe.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Ann. 4, EVENING. (Per Bobeakisa.) General Grant has placed a battery of 84 - pounders beyond the levee in a position to reach Vicksburg easily, and is about to open the bom bardment. Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, 2,600 strong, are re ported to be at Culpepper, Virginia. Governor Todd, of Ohio, has been arrested by order of the grand jury of Fairfield, county Ohio, on a charge of kidnapping Dr. Olds, who was arbi trarily arrested and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette. The governor was admitted to bail -- . The draft is expected to be enforced at the end of April. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORE, APRIL 4, EVINIXO. Money easy. Gold 55 per cent. premium. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 168 to 170. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 113; ; Illi nois, 90 ; Erie, 774. THE POLISH QUESTION. PARIS, Ann 17. The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes an article signed by its editor, M. Paulin Limayrac, expLsin ing that the steps taken by the three powers at St. Petersburg were in conformity with diplomatic traditions. The Constitutionnet adds that the despatches have been drawn up in the same spirit, aim at the same object, and are based upon the same ideas, the intention of which is to prevent the repetition of political convulsions, liable to endanger the peace of Europe. The English note refers, in addition, to the treaties of 1815. The despatches will be communicated to day or to-morrow. The writer concludes :—" Eu rope has done her duty. Let us hope that Russia will not fail to accomplish hers. In that case those nations whose sympathy has been so ar dently displayed in the noble cause of Poland, will applaud the powerful Sovereign who will have accomplished a liberal task by fulfilling the desires of conservative Europe." THE GREEK CROWN. OOPENRAGEN. APRIL 16 (Evitanro.) The Padrelandet of to-day states that the dim cultiea which have hitherto opposed the acceptation of the Greek crown by Prince William were removed in the last sitting of the Privy Council. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Biwa 15. (Per Naverre.)__ Exchange, 68s. to 68s. 61. Ounces, 419. Wet salted ox bides, 38, firmer. Dry American, 33 to to 36 ; quiet. Wool tending downward. Tallow, 13} ; firmer. Lumber, 35. Flour unchanged. Refined sugar, 17 to 17k. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom OUR OWN COI PARIS. THURSDAY EVISIIIIO, The Constitutionnel, whose silence on the sub ject of the St. Petersburg amnesty had been so much observed, has at length spoken, but what it says amount, to nothing ; or, at least, serves but to indicate the dissatisfaction of the French govern ment at the small success which has attended its efforts, and its hesitation as to the course to be ultimately pursued. It admits that the amnesty remedies nothing, and does not change the situa tion, but it yet accepts it as evidence of the en lightened sentiments of the Czar. The Patric there upon inquires bow it can be that " an act which remedies nothing, and changes nothing in the situa tion, can be a testimony of enlightened sentiments 7" I don't see how that question is to be answered. As to the " hopes of a solution," which the Cotutitu tionnel sees in the amnesty, they are only hopes of the same kind which the Russian government has held out for the last fifty years. The France says that M. Busson's report on the budget will be presented to-morrow, that the debate will probably begin on Wednesday, April 22, and that the session will close on Saturday, May 9. The general elections may be expected to take place either on Sunday, May 31, or that day week, June 7. It is quite possible that the France may be going a little too fast in these anticipations. There are rumours that the debate on the budget will be tuausually warm, as the " five" wiU be re inforced by all those former "government candi dates" who have received notice that they will no longer be supported by power. At the Bourse there is very little business doing. There is no recovery from the fall occasioned by the recent uneasiness in regard to Russia ; on the contrary, Rente has fallen sc. more, and Mobilier, 20fr. The government has just selected twenty young girls between the ages of 15 and 22, from the Foundling Hospital, to be sent out to New Cale donia, in order to be married to colonists, most of whom are old soldiers, now become farmers or artisans. These brides expectant, who, of course, leave France with their own consent, are chosen from among the most robust and intelligent of the young women in the establishment. Each of them is supplied with a useful trousseau, to which the Empress has added a tartan shawL It has been reported, it seems, that M. Rattami had gone to Ireland to study the " question" of pauperism. He may possibly be going, but has not at any rate left Paris yet. Yesterday he gave a fête at his residence in the Rue dee Vignes. A few days ago a dinner was given him at the Trois Frerin, and on Sunday he was present with his bride at the Longchamp races. Madame Rat• (who as Madame de Solme was already known as an authoress) has just published at Dentu's a new work called " Mademoiselle Million." It is rumoured that M. de Villemessant, of the Figaro, and M. Sarcey, the theatrical critic of the Opinion Nationale, have gone to Belgium to fight a dueL A bill is now before the Canadian parliament to do away with public executions. AMERICA NOT THE "NEW Womm."—Professor Artesia begins, in the last Atlantic, anew series of scientific articles alder the title " Anglin the Old World," in which be maintains that the American continrat hats been falsely denominated the New World. "Hen was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, here was the first shore that wan meshed by the ocean that enveloped all the world be sides ; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, Amain' already stretched an unbroken line of lead from Nova Scotia to the Far Hot." LaaoE ARRIVAL OF EMIGRANTS IN BIRMINGHAM. —Mies Burdett Coat* who takes a lively interest in the emcees of the emigration movement. has lately sent out at her own ores several hundred emigrants to the Australian colonies. Lest night, at nine o'clock, about one hundred emigrants, with their wives and children. arrived at the New-street Railway-station, em route for Liverpool, where they will embark for Australia this day (Friday), Birmingham by an early trait. ' no party of em ta was accommodated with lodgings la We town last n ht, Chief -cur sae...indent OloescAs giving the party the essistaam of Detective-sergeant Clarke I. procure them respectable lodgings. Miss Burdett Costae defrays the costs of the outfit of the emigrants to Australia. —BinniagrAdsui Gazette. 1863. EXPENSES OP rats DOCKYARDS. This morning was issued the usual annual account of the expenses incurred upon the building and re pairing of ships in her ajeety's dockyards, and by cataract, in t►e financial year 1861.2. This account is prefaced by report from the Accountant-General of the Navy, setting forth the mode in which he has carried out the inetruc.- Cons of the Admiralty relative to the preparatioe of the dockyard accounts. He gates th►t in this account (the first which has come under his charge) every item is based upon vouchers for materials drawn from store, and for labour applied, signed for by the respective shipwright and factory officers in charge of each particular work. The accountant•general while showing the great advantages of this account allows that it is susceptible of greet improvement, He hopes shortly to be able to submit also an account showing the cost of manufacturing and repairing articles of store in the mayoral workshops and factories of the dockyards, and another account showing the value of the stock in hand in each dockyard on the Slat *arch last. THE FEDERAL 00VERNHENr AND THE SHIPPING TRADE. DEPUTATION TO EARL RUSSELL. A deputation of shippers and merchants inte rested in the Mexican trade, together with the owner, ship broker, and underwriter interested in the steamships Peter heft' and Sea Queen, waited yesterday on Earl RusselL They were introduce; by Mr. CaawroMD, member foe Loa. don, who first called attention to the position of the captain, OffialTS, sod supercargoes of the Peterhoff, now in New York. Those persons were stated to be detained on board, and sot allowed to communicate with either the agents of the onsets end merchants or with the British canal. Allusion was made to the interference of the American cruisers with our Mexican trade, sod it was mentioned that • brisk and cootinoous trade is carried on be tween the United Mates end Mexico, and that ships are daily advertised to mil from New York to Matamonui ; so that the effect of tolerating the proceedings of the cruises would be to suable the Americans to establish a monopoly. The next circuities's", pointed out was that the Fadesl government appear to assume the right to dictate whet trade shall or shall not bo carried on by British subjects ; and on this head the statement was then made that a policy of insurance was attempted to be effected in Lloyd's room yesterday, accompanied by the following certificate from Mr. Adams, the United States' minister in London, addressed to Admiral Dupont, commando* the Federal fleet : " Legation of the United States, London, April 9, 1863. " Amid the multitude of fraudu len t and dishonest enter pies from this kingdom to furnish supplies to the rebels in the United States, through the pretence of a destination to some port in Mexico, it gives me pleasure to distinguish one which has a different and a creditable purpose. Messrs. Howell end Zirman have furnished me with evidence, which is perfectly eatisfactory to me, that they are really boned to Matamoros with a cargo intended for the Mex icans. I therefore very cheerfully give them this 'ere fiesta at their request. It is not the disposition of the go vernment of the United States to interfere in any way with an honest neutral trade, and it is deeply to he regretted that the frauds which have been so extensively practised is this country have contributed so much to throw it trader sus picion. " QUALM FRANCIS ADAM.. Admiral Dupont, he." After • strong expression of opinion with regard to this letter, Mr. Crawford continued by stating that the imme diate object the deputation had in view was to elicit from her Majesty's government some assurance at protection for the Sea Queen, now detained by the owners at Falmouth awaiting a decision. He explained that this vomel has re ceived oe board her Majesty's mails, the owner being bound by the Mercantile Marine Act to carry them, under a penalty. M. G. P. Hannrsc suggested that the government send a mail agent in the ship, who would represent as official parasites that she was bound to the port for which she was cleared. As the only pretence given for seizure WY • suspicion that she would run the blockade, it wee considered that this might be a satisfactory solution of the difficulty, and the owners and the merchants would be con tent to send the vessel on such conditions, bearing all the aspens consequent on the arrangement. Hie LO.OB/fir said he would consider the propriety of beteg on this suggestion, and expressed his surprise at Mr. Crawford's information respectiog the detention of the per sons on board the Peterhoff, they not being criminals or subject to criminal law. Mr. WAKI, on behalf of the brokers, offered for his lordship's inspection the manifest of the vessel, and declared the readiness of the merchants to guarantee that there wan no contraband of war on board. THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND THE BISHOP OP NATAL The following letter has been addressed by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln to the clergy of his dices.. : " Deanery, Liooolo, April 13, 1863. "Reverend sod Dear Brethren, —I have abstained hitherto, even when addressed on the subject, from any public ex pression of opinion on the recent works of the Bishop of I was unwilling, on the one hand, to abandon the hope, that a candid investigator of truth, on closer examination of the grounds of what appeared tome, for the moot part, very hasty and ill-considered conclusions, might be led to retract publications which have filled his friends with sorrow, and the church of which he I a minister, with alarm. And os the other, I had some right to ert that a bishop of our church, to the doctrine arid disc iplin e of which he is bound by the most solemn obligations, • unhappily compelled by the exigencies of his investigations to entertain convictions inconsistent with his profession at ordination, and ooefee sedly at variant,' with some of the odioes which he is to use himself and to edam on others, would hesten to free himself from responsibilities which, one would think, can no looger either be discharged conscientiously or evaded honourably. "Bishop Colenso has taken neither course. He considers it his duty to God and the natioord church, while retaining the episcopal commission which he has received, and the bishopric which was founded only ten yen since for very different purposes. to persevere in his endeavour to disprove the historical truth of some of those books of the canonical Scriptures, all of which he once declared that he believed unfeignedly, and the uofeigued belief in which be has still to require from each one whom he ordains. Ido not suppose that there is in this diocese a single clergyman who sympathises with Bishop Ookuso, or with his views ; but I feel it doe to you and to myself alike, to mark as well my sorrowful disapprobation of such conduct on the part of a brother bishop, as my entire disapproval of opinions maintained by him in his 'Commentary oo the Epistle to the Romans,' and its hie two parts of • The Pen tateuch sod the Book of Joshua critically examined,' by directing you hereby not to allow him to mss the word and eacniments in any of your churches.—Believe me to re main your faithful handmaid brother, " J. Lnicout." Tag DIVISION ON THE BUNIALS 1861 Sir Morton Peto's bill was thrown out by a vote of 236 to 156 ; this year the present bill, which was the offspring of the Hoar of Commons' committee, met with only 96 sup porters. In the " noes" of Wednesday are to be found the names of several of the accustomed supporters of " libera tion" measures in parliament. It is understood that the bill was of too moderate a character for a large section of this party, and hence the small number of its supporters, and the apparent anomaly of ecclesiastical radicals and tones uniting to defend it. The conservatives " whipped" hard to defeat the measure ; the liberal party used no efforts to procure the attendance of members. Tan AMALGAMATION OF CITY AND METROPOLI TAN POLICL—The opposition to the proposed measure of Sir George Grey for amalgamating the Metropolitan sod City police is by no means confined to the City, but is extending throughout the metropolis. At the meeting of the representative vestry of St. Marylebous, held yesterday at the court Louse, Mr. Churchwarden Matthews in the chair, resolutions were presented fr.m so association of ratepayers, stating that they had heard with feelings of apprehension the intention to amalgamate the City of London police force, now under the control of the ratepayers, with the metropolitan police. That they regarded such • measure as repugnant to the spirit of bad institutions, and dangerous to public liberty. They, therefore, called upon their representatives to nee their efforts to prevent this absorbtion of a responsible institution into the hands of the government ; and further to consider the expediency of placing the whole of the civil defence of the metropolis under the control of a board elected by the ratepayers.— At • full meeting of the vestry of St. James ., West minster, held yesterday at the Vestry hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Box, churchwarden, in the chair, after the usual routine business had been transacted, Mr. Medwin proposed the following resolutios :—" That th is vestry , in new Of its. former decision that it was most desirable to obtain for the parish of St. JAW/40 . 11 and the City of Westminster the benefit of municipal imaitutious, and especially the metro' and regulation of its polies cannot bat regret the attempt now being made in the House of C,omniona, and by the Home Secretary, to deprive the City of London of their privilege, and that such steps be taken to prevent this result, by petitions and otherwise, es may seem expedient." Mr. Watkins seconded the motion. Several other members of the vestry having spoken io favour of the meolatiou, it was put from the chair and unanimously adopted. A committee was then appointed to prepare a petition against the pro- posed amalgamation, and the borou g h members were also requested to vote spinet any bill having that object in view. -- • THZ CLOSINO OF PUSLIC-HOURES ON SUNDAYS. —Last evening a numeroualyattended meeting of working men, in favour of Mr. Someds bill for closing pablic•hoosea on Sundays, was held at Taylor's Repositor► Newington; Mr. Bormoad le the chair. The Chairman mid they anion°t preseet so Sebbaterians, but they looked upon t►e question in a axial light ; sad the promoters of the meanie( believed that in advocating the movement they were beet promoting the happiness of thousand'. Numerous addresses were de livered, and resolutions in favour of the bill adopted. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco. Brian Lad egad Justice Elia and Justices Willa", 13yiss, and Heating.) stIMUT V. THE NORTH LAIIIIIII RAILWAY 0011PARY.-114144. TART QUEWIJON AB TO EICUILFOI yftaUlt. Mr. Temple, Q.C., said that the plaintiff, • coconordid traveller, seed to recover damages for the detention of hie ca:tont • sod at the trial before Yr. Bane Mania, et k i , sa the veining was for the *ducat foe 40s. The present motion was for a nil, for a new trial upon the ;rowed of mudirection, tied the circumstances were these : — Theßortit Esstern Railway Company were in the habit every reason of permitting persons resident at various watering.plues to go from one wateciug.plaos to others, and return the rune day, travelling with eleunion tickets issued at • cheap rate. Such pamenr.ri, however, travell e d by the ordinary trains. There were ticksta of this kind issued between Scarborough and Whitby, end there was an intimation that persons travelling with such tickets must take no luggage. At the latter aid of October the plaintiff west to the station at Scerliceregh, delivered his portmanteau to the porter, who pet it into the luggage van, end afterwsids the plaintiff took an elem. don ticket for Whitby. On the way to that place the pee. seogers changed trains at Killingtoo, and at that place th e plaintiff asked the guard to take his portma n t eau to York, end leave it at the station till called for. The guard refused to do so, sad the portmanteau went oa to Whitby, where the plaintiff took no ootioe of it, but pro ceeded in the omnibus to the hotel, and sent she boots for it. The company refused, however, to deliver it moles it was paid for ; ape the ground that it belonged to • pert who had travelled with an excursion ticket. The plaintiff afterwards went back with his ticket to Melton, sod thence to York; and there was no doubt that he had not wished to go to Whitby at all, but to York. At the trial the plaintiff ad. aided that he had seen one of the hills in reference to excursion ticket. ; and upon such bills there was • notice that no luggage would be allowed. Os the part of the plaintiff it was contended that the company had no power to make such a stipulation with respect to logo's*, inasmuch as their act provided that every cages travelling upon the railway might take with hien i•~ary lugpgs not exceeding 150 lbs. weight for first-class passengers, and 100 lbs. for other passenger; without extra charge. The judge was of opinina that the act did prevent the company from making the bsrpre as to no luggage beteg allowed, and the Question now was whether he we. right in so bolding ; as if so , it mint possibly prevent the company from running excunioa trains until they could obtain further powers. The Lord Chief Justice said it was a very important point ; sod although the wards were against the company, there were many considerations bearing upon the matter. Mr. Temple said there was soother point. The port. manteau contained a number of simples, and it we, there. fore submitted that its oonteuts were not " ordinary lespge The Lord Chief Justioe thought, after some discussion, that there were hardly sufficient materials to mine this latter point, but upon the first coos there would be a rule. Ride granted. Bittiop et Nisi Prins in Middlesex.—(Before Mr. Jastice Williams and a Common Jury.) TIOOT T. COBIAIY. —A LOAN TO AN ANTIBT, ;4cover two pictures— one of "Jerry, the Fire-dog," and the other called " The Opera Cloak." lir. Wstkin Williams appeared for the plaintiff, and Ar. D. D. Keane for the defendant. . . . It warn Matedthat the plaintiff wee an artist, living in Newman-street, and the pictures in question were painted by him, and were exhibited in the gallery at theCanterbery hall. In July lest year he applied to the defendant to ad vance him 51., and the defendant comented to lied him the mosey . for a month upon having the pictures as security. It wee agreed that the interest Mould be It., and the defendant deducted the sovereign at fist, and has* the plaintiff 41. The plaintiff gave the defendant • prommsory note for 51. p..yabk in a mouth, and he also gem an order upon the proprietors of the Canterbury.ksll not to deliver the pictures to anybody bet the defendant. The loan was mot repaid at the end of the month, and it wee &imaged that time should be given upon the plaintiff paying Uttered at the rate of 10s. a mouth. Oa the 17th the defendant wrote to the plaintiff, saying that September amount of his claim was paid be mbould part with the pictures, and proceed for the batmen. At this time, however the plaintiff was at Newmarket painting, and he did not get the letter until his return in November. Soon afterwards he new nee of hie pictures in the shop of the defendant's son ia the Westminster-road, and there was a hill announcing that it wee to be miffed for. The plain tiff protested against this, and souse time afterwards he tendered the amount of the defeedent's claim, 71. ; but the defendant said that one of the pictures had been raffled for 31., and the oiler mold for N. sa. Thom wee oonfbcting evidence as to whether the chi fondant wee to have power of sale upon default ; end the defendant's mussel also contended an • point of law that even upon the plaintiff's evidence there would be an Im plied power of sale. Another point in dispel,* wee the value of the pictures ; the plaintiff's opinion being that the " Fire-dog " was worth 501., and the " flpsees Cloak "104 ; whilst for the defendant the evidence wee that the two were ant worth bl. . The jury essersed the damages et 201., tut his lordship, as • matter of law, ruled that the action would Dot lie ; aad he therefore directed • verdict for the defendant, but gave the plaintiff leave to move to eater the verdict for himself for 2W. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Bafo+ tea Jody Ordinary.) mann y. DOOLIMIL The Queen's Adv - ocate, - 111r. derTaBOT Bees, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Dowdeswell, and Mr. C. Turner, for the pasintdf ; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Ur. Cleashy, Q.C., Dr. tigrish, Mr. B. E. Tumor, and Mr. Inderwick for the defendant. In this ewe there has already been • 'pedal jury trial of portentous length, resulting in a verdict which dreaded that the plaintiff, Francine° Cried., was the natural eon of a rich nwochaat of Begin!: dement, at Faro, in the province d Algarve, nethekiogdom of Portugal, by Barbara Julia Orates, the daughter of abarber in that town. The suit now nano again before the court for the discussion of several legal points ; amongst others whether Henry Crispin, the plain. tin father, was by the law of Portugal of wale or plebsisa rank ; and whether a person of the latter deseriptiore. with • natural son, could dispose by will of more than a third of hie property ? The estate in dispute is said to be worth about 300,000 i. Bir R. Phillimore contended that Hoary Crispin was sots noble, and that therefore bin natural eon had a right to succeed as if he were legitimate. Before 1716 no Portu guese trader ever did or could acquire nobility ; but by a series of statutes which were commenced by Jose L, and which motioned till 1777, nobility was conferred upon the rosenben of certain privileged companies, and deo upon grown trattos or wholesale merchaote. The learned counsel denied that Henry Crispin was • grow) tratto, because he sold goods over the counter. Evidenue was then given in support of the plaistiff's allegations. and The ans wee proceeding when we went to press. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Wore Mr. OODIMMIDOMOT GOIllbOTD.) IN BS LIWIS—AN ACCOMMODATING IVUTT. The brink ... 4pr, described as a foreign and general mer. chant, of Old Broedetreet, applied on a forgoer day for his release from custody, and was required to find two nineties in foOf. each. . . . . . Mr. Solomon, on behalf of the detaining creditor, now wished to examine the proposed sureties. A person named Myers, who described himself as a boot manufacturer, of Dukeatrest,Aldgate, stated he had become bail at the recision of the bankrupt. He was in the habit of becoming bail. (Laughter.) Had been bail, perhaps, twenty times in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. Wu sot paid for his services, only expenses, cab hire, and so on. The Commissioner—And pray what may you usually receive on such occasion' My.n—Oh, about 7s. ed. a day. (Laughter.) He bad been objected to as ban before, but never rejected. He was worth more than 1091. in stock in trade and furniture. The other surety was examined, and being found satin. factory, his Honour accepted the two, and discharged the bankrupt. (Before Mr. Commissioner Feat.) IN as 1105130 AND MINT. The bankrupts were auctioneers, of Upper St. 'farther. lase. This was this sitting for examination end discharce. The account. show joint debts and liabilities of 3,9461., a irk russets stated at over 8001. But Priest's separate balance. *beet shows a much larger amount of liability ; his debts amoticj to 12,3331., in respect of which security is bald for 8,6 631 . The secured creditors are principally insurance companies, who hold property in Long-acre and elsewhere. dergood opposed for the assignees, sod for Mr. Tbomp• son. a creditor ; Mr. B. Griffiths appeared for the bankrupt Priest. _ An adjournment was °winced for cash and deficiency as canna The bankrupt was a farmer, of Writtle, &sex. This was the sitting for examination and discharge ; debt. shoat 5001. The only peculiarity in the cw was, that though the bankrupt lived in the close neighbourhood of Daemon, his wits had proceeded spinet him in the Divorce Court, and bad obinund a decree for alimony of 401. a year. In anticipation of Wm, he bad settled property of 1,5001. upon his children'. Yr. R. Griffiths, on behalf of Mr. Aldridge, the mown solicitor, required ►n adjournment with • view to investi gate the trust deed executed by the bankrupt in favour of has children. Mr. Sawed, for the bankrupt, opposed the application. His Honour peasnai the examination, and adjourned the order of discharge. Two men were examined before the Sheffield magistrates yesterday, en • dune of forging Federal " greenbacks." One of the miss was an engraver and the others hthogr.pbic printer ; but it appears that an Amen an, who is now or was in Ireland, was the prim. mover in the plot. About 3,000 10-dollar notes bad been engraved from • plate found in the possession of the prisoners, The Dotes were despatchal to America, and circulated Mere. The prisoners were remanded. ACCIE ORO Two Paley, Palace, in` 301 of her Thou Coklatr the ool< The pi a.m. ill the a doers tc end the When pond 134114 SODOIS 1 root al first do I did to krri clerk of labours would which I The I commit A CU Samoa for fel* entrustA Wm. himself both.rot imManu Isliogta They did sot in his Mr. I the pris impriso tica. LAT] TE' Libel Maid f, NEW: Lady Wi&g, I Junin e by 01 Derv. METE Alert*, coal*, Atamal Doable fir 6 Fakoo, Nab him. 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