The Express. — London, England, 1856-05-19 00:00:00

gee expreoo. labbiliembebTlsiig Itwabirwsi. mot be se Imo OM" 10. iouk by Two WWI ea a. day et pelikifilsw alfill WATNR AT LONDON BILIDOI. Um Du—kleraise, IL 4 Aftersaah IL Mo. Tameatow—Many, U. 10 ‘ attanoos. U. NIL LONDON, MONDAY, KAY 19. THE departure of the young Prince FuEDERICIt WILLIAM from Berlin, on a visit to Queen Vicroitts. and the Court of England, appears now to be cer tain; and, although the object for which that visit is at pn sent made - will probably be deferred the a year or eighteen months, it is needless longer to conceal that a marriage is projected between the Heir Presumptive to the Crown of Prussia and the Princess Royal of England. In such an Alliance, the first thing the great ma jority of the English people will desire is, that the young Princess msy find all that domestic happiness which has hitherto so pre-eminently distinguished the life of her Royal Motber,and that,not only foe her own sake, but for the people with which the marriage will connect her. The influence which the domestic virtues have in every sphere, necessarily enlarges and extends with the position of life they illustrate and adorn. In England the private example set by Queen Vicronta has dons much, not merely to purify the manners and elevate the tastes of society, but has promoted and excited sympathies between the higher and the lower classes, the value and importance of which to the Commonwealth can hardly be over- estimated ; and for much of the course punned by the Court, duriug the preempt reign, in what may be called its social career, the country is, it would be unjust to deny, indebted to the Prince Consort. Takeo, therefore, even from a purely domestic point of view, Royal Marriages, it their political import ance be diminished, may nevertheless, in their silent unobtrusive effects, be instruments of great publics good. But, can try one, who looks at unhappy Spain, at afflicted Greece, or at oppressed Naples, doubt that there are still European countries in which Royal Mnrrisges do influence the political condition of the states they concern ? Had Queen Lusatia.* married a prince of cultivated and expanded mind, of sense, of spirit, and vigour, how different miget have been her reign, how different the condition of Spain. Or had nut King Ora° found in his Consort a woman of arbitrary dispositions, of obstioate self will, and of vindictive Inclinations, Greece would probably by this time have embraced that career of moderation, temperance, and internal development, which were the objects of the Treaty of London, &eel might, by its strict neutrality and good government, have obtained a position in the Me diterranean which the philo-Russian tendencies of the Quer), the sighing alter impossibilities of those under her inflaeoce, and the national sad bad faith of the Government arm can saaosapliab. Again, had the wretched King of NAPLES bees blessed with a wife who could have felt for the misery of his people, assuredly the wisdom of &true hearted woman might have achieved what the threats and remonstrances of angry allies have failed to accomplish. When we look at the infilienos over the war which the family relations between the Coats of Berlin and St. Petersburg have eadoubtedly had, and rtollect with what fatal pertinacity the doomed Hones of BOURBON have held together, we shall Sod that, even in public affairs, the homely Scotch proverb that " blood is thicker than water" proves true. In such a marriage es that new in contem platioc, Prussia has, immediately, much toes to gain than England. Prussia is exactly in that state when the personal character of its Monarch sad Princes sway, in a great manner the tendencies and destinies or a cosotry. Tree it is that the policy of Prussia is no longer in the hands of its sovereigns and their advisers; it is dictated by a party whose superabundant monarchical predispositions is endangering Monarchy itself, by carrying Prissia back, if not into the days, certainly into the spirit and atmosphere of Feudalism. Bat the source of the power of this party is mainly to be found in that sickly and learned sentimentality prevalent in Prussian society, of which the reigning Sove reign is, perhaps, the chief exemplar. It is by means of this seatimentality, arid of its accempanying intel lectual, sensual, and aesthetics' dissipation, that domestic life so largely and so fatally predominates over public life and public duty in Prussia. To nee a oommoo, but in this butanes a most apt ex poser)°, the Court of Berlin wants an infusion of new blood, to invigorate it ; to drive out its netnby-pattsbyism; to dispel its vain tran scendental, nonsensical delusions; to make it more "of the earth, earthy." But where in Germany is such a want as this to be supplied ? At what small German Court shell the Prince of Pausau fad that stens sane in torpor* sow, that freshness, healthiness, robustness of mind and body, that clear head, truthful tongue, and honest resolute will, that simplicity and sincerity of purpose, without which it is hopelcis to see Prussia playing the part of a great monarchy? That such a prise can be discovered in the Court of Eogliind we do not undertake to say. But it is a great thing to appreciate the real want of a country. The next thing is to seek for the means of supplying that want where it is most likely to be found. And this appears to us exactly what the Prisms of Patinae is doing for We son. A domestic connexion between the two Courts mast, however, beu its political fruits also. There is no doubt • host of excellent ?tenons why Primal• is at present unpopular in England, but those reasons are chiefly of • temporary character. At all events, it would be • grave misfortune for England by any evanescent, however just, resentment to force Prussia into permanent relations with Austria and Russia. Even in our anger, it is wise end prudent to look a little ahead, and base oar policy rather on reason than on feeling—to say nothing of passion. At the be. ginning of the present century, Prrr was soenstoined to say that the safest and most efficient continental ally for England was Praises; sad so it would now be if the Court of Prussia were (to nee LAUD'S ex pression) "other than it is." la contributing, then, an excellent Princess to that Court we shall be doing our beet to plane it in a position in which it will' be both an efficient and a safe ally. SADLER'S WELLS ENGLISH OPERA.—Mr. Howard (Mawr begins hie lolg son iuocad wren et Hoglish operatic performances Pas erasing with Balfa's Borraire Girl. for which additional rear lass been written ►y the popular c intossr, who will maw his first appeasers in Eneland afar a long arena, and radar his ova trete. The oast, lacludiag Mr. and Mrs. Inas Beers, Yr. Dela- Testi, Mr. Weir, mad Mir P.ole, berry straps sad these wisest singer will be supported by an orchestra oarafally sainted from the liar Opera beads, eorprierag ear anise r Wrests*, Reassat, Marsala, Realleiel (a sew !taro a-player of celebrity from Paris), Tbulwall, Whin, Calliay H.r., sad by a arras also drawa treat the best reroee. We hope OW this spirited aadertakiai will be attended with owneso. r ' gpe Court. OSBORNE, MAY 17. Prince Albert went over to Gosport yesterday and ♦leited the forts now erecting. The Prises rateraed to Osborne about 2 o'clock. and dries oat with her Majesty in the stannoos. • . MAT IS. The Duchess of Keot arrived yesterday from Loudon on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess erased over from Southemptoa is the Fairy, attended by the Eton. btu; Seymour and Lord James Man.,. The Dodson' of Kent, &Waded by the Hoe. Mary Sey mour and Lord James Murray, left ►er reridence, Clarence Rouse, St. James's, es Saturday morals', fee Osborn, Isle of Wight. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after. noon at the Foreign-ofdoe,Downing-st rest. Present: Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Ba rt of Cla rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chasmllor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. The Council at two boors and a quarter. M. Mammas, the Turkish Ambassador, transacted bud misa at the Foreign-tibia oa Saturday. Viscount Palmerston left tow* attar the Cabinet Council au Saturday aftemom for Bracket Hail, Rents The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in London oa Satur day morning from his Bowood Pack, Wilts, for the purpose of attending the Cabinet Council held at the Foreiga office. Lora Stanley of Alderley anived in town on Saturday. CEREMONY OF LAYING THE FIRST STONE OF VICTORIA HOSPITAL BE THE QUEEN.- (THIS DAY.) The following is the programme of the ceremony observed on the occuioa of her Majesty the Queen's laying the lint rose of the Royal Victoria Hoephal, at Netley, this day : It Y 'spewed that the Queen will land at the jetty at eleven o'clock a.m. A guard of bosom. will be drawn up M receive her Majesty. Oa landing her Melody will be received by the Secretary of State for the War Deportment, the port admiral of Portsmouth, and the general commanding the emath-western district. The Royal Standard will be bolded on a fiarstaff, and military bands will play the National Anthem. Her Majesty will receive upon the jetty an addrese from the Mayor end Corp 'ration of Southampton, which will las presented to her 111. j sty by the Meyer, and banded by the Queen to the Secretary of State. The Queen will then be conducted to the plate prepared for her Majeety, preceded by the Ohne, military and naval, in atteadance upon the general and admiral, by the gegen' and admiral, the high sheriff and the l r.l lieu tenant of the county, the bishop of the dinette sad tae Secretary of State, end followed by the suite of her Majesty end his Royal Highness the Pricers. A gaud of tomer will be drawn up to receive her Majary on the sit. of the intended bufldiag, and the troops will be formed in lino on the north side of the stone, to mitoses the cerem , ny. When her Majesty arrives at tie place when the sties is to be laid, the commanding engineer will present to her Majesty the Vans of toe building 0 be erected, explaining shortly the intended arraogements. _ _ Her Majesty having gig:died her approval of the plats, will then place in the ovpper boz, pr .pued for the pur pose, the coins, medals, and cross, sod the vellum does• meet reomdieg the event. This last will be signed by her Majesty, his Royal Highs's. the Prices, and the Seentuy of state; aid the hoz beteg then clued, ber 11t•j?sty will plate it in the cavity of the atone. The eeremoey of laying the stone will then be pomaded with, the military bands playing ; tad the moment when the Qama strikes the stone, alter having ascertained that it is correctly Laid, a signal (leg will I,* hoisted, the ships in the river will salute, the troops will present anne, and the military bands will ;lay "Oirl save the Qamn." Her Majesty will ;he; direct the Seerstery of State to dollars that the Ent ideas of the Military litspital is laid, sad that her Msjesty has bees pleated to mewls is called the Royal Viet‘ria HospitaL _ _ TOG bishop of the diocese will tbita oder up prayers, sad proaosaise a bbsesiag, sad the 100th Pisan will be seep by the choir. The troops will then march past her Mejesty in quick time, and the Queen will return ti the jetty sod re embark. The 'roiled must he kept quite clear by the military, end no persona will be allowed to stand neer the Royal party but the lord lientatent ct tie county, the Secretary of State, the general eammanding the distriat, the port admiral, and the memben of the household in attendance ern her Majesty. The staff of the general and ad 'Aral, end all other autho rities not above aimed, will beat pleats reserved for them, when they will net interrupt the view et the ceremony. Cud are the prayers to be need on this *cassias : _ _ . , Prevost us, 0 I.lrd, is all our dotage, with Thy moat gracious favour, sad forther as with Toy toutlasal help; that is all our works Megan, ciatirtusd, and traded tu Thee, ws may glorify Thy holy name, mad dually, by Thy mercy, obtala everlasting life, through Je►us Christ oar Lord . Alliall. " 0 Lord oar Ood, who but taught es is Thy Holy Word, that strut Thou build the house, their labour is bat lest that build It, great Thy blearing, we beseech Thee, to this oar usdertskieg, aid prooper the work of our hoods epos as. Be Thus gracious, 0 Lord, unto auk es hereafter shall be the trustee of this house of healing : auks them sot afraid for the pestiltecs that walketh le duke's., nor for the sickliest that destroulth le the non-day; 11411 Tby easels charge over then to keep th , m in all their ways; hear thew when thry all sport Thee ; ye., be Thou with them in all their trouble, to the day of sickness', sad In the boar of death; deliver tb•m, sod show them Thy salva tion. Gnat, filially, that all they to whom Thou shalt see it to restore the blueing of health, essay pass the rest of their pees with thankful hurts aid a loyal spirit, and ever he devoutly given to serve Thee in good work., to the glory of Thy ease, through Jens Christ oar Lord. Amu. " The uses of Ood,wblch passeth all eaderstaaddig,keep your hearts aad Riads is the kaowledie mad love of God, sad of His Boa Jnae Christ our Lord : sod the blvesiag of God Almighty, the Father, the Sou, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you, had remain with you always. Amen." PORTSMOUTH, Man IS. The weather to-day does not sugar a See ate for to morrow's earremoay of laying Use hmadatioa stow by her Majesty of ea new Military Hospital at Ramble. AU day it has bras blowing a gale from the S.W., with octasloaal shaven of rata. Commaoication by boats with the float at' Spithiad is pat a stop to, the Alain, 91, barley sigeallsd this amino*n that she caild sot send the mud guard. blot ea shore till the wind moderato& The Arrogant, IS , 'mew Must*, Captain Lycer, left last night far Reath septet Water. Th. commander in-chief will go oat la the Fire Quist to.mono , r, and hoist his flag on board this camel fat Use day. Last eight the fallowing orders were lamed : H.M.S. Algiont, Spithead. °The following are the gumbo its that will form the snort for Wuhan* ea her lbjesty oo Moaday, the 19th net, oa the undo* of her promediag to Southampton Water t• lay the fouadaboa atone of the Military Hospital :—Port Divisioa—Starliag, Changer, Rudy, Gramhopper, Piaelmr, Heuer. Starboard Dtriaioa—Beaeou, Parent, Bluer, Perseter, Weems. Biter. " The followiag gunbuto ore is hold themsolvas la mi dtown to supply the place of either of the shore which may be dolayad or prevented by outdone from joisiag the egaad raa they will, there( rre, be ii attendance at a convenioat distance :—ltenbrosat, Waiting. " R. J. CODILIXOTOX, Captala V Ott Rod Division." " R.N.& Mahon, May 17. The guaboats aimed math* *quadrat for bee Mejssty's escort are to get up steam for slow spied to-morrow at halt past 1 p.m., and they aro the, to move out of hartoar as moat osavrraiont to avoid calieimes. They will thou nen lemons nom the Algion,aodoonvesiestly dear of Mu ships at Spitbood. I will rhea tate owansaad of them, and move those e• to as anchorage at lb. oatrasco of Boatbampton Water, whore they writ rounds at anchor darheg goods, might. "R. J. CODILIKOTOK, Captain of Red Divi►ion. "To the Mean commanding the Gunboats of H.ll Ewen." Tba gals bat viand ammo delay in oarrylag Mt above Candor, bat %boy will no doubt bo •ff•eted la tbo cause of tbo altarsoos el to-day. There are abrtady symptoms of tbo triad baying &early tab tattod Wolf. la aoneogasato ot the gale all tha ably. at Spitboad bays struck topgallant nosh sad yuds. Tim 22M 17.; - gisest of tho Liu it. to Woo lay le midi THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1856. train to-morrow ■oreleg for Holley, wbeaee they much to the some of the c rtmotly—live silts. The choir Pi Winchester Cathedral will be present to slag to day t t the laying the foundation state .f the new Military Hospital, near Motley Abbey, by her Majesty. Tho platonic which has beet erected close to the spot ie intoseperate coati aroma for the Lord-Lisitenent sad magistrates of the coma y of Rants, the Bishop of Win chester and clew, and other high authorities. The Mayor and corporation of fLuthamptdi embark on board the stesmor Medina, at the Bolsi Pier, in state, et 9 o'clock this moron g, t'e proceed to Node, to meet her Majesty. Their steamer wid escort the royal yacht, containing her Majesty, to Osborne slow the ceremony is over. Two thou sand soldiers and workmes will be espied on the spot where thr ceremony of laying the foundation stone takes place. Pilot. will le►ve float►aa pton to pilot the portios of the Hem that is to aunt! her Majesty. A grand display of firewueks will be exhibited on Southampton Water to night. • FRANCE. Thd Mondale of this morning announces that Baron de Brannow has presented to tho Emperor a letter from the Emperor of Ramis, which accredits him on an " ostraordinary mission " to his Imperial Majesty. ____ (now ova owx PARIS, SATURDAY EV2l'4lllO. A despatch from Berlin announces that the Ring has given the royal smut to the new communal law for the Rhenish Provinces. It had been hoped that this law, which completely changes the liberal com munal institutions of these provinces, would not have been promulgated. Great discontent prevails on the subject in Rhenish Prussia. That the Prussian government should have taken this unpopular steptit a time when France is supposed to be on the look out to take advantage of any excitement on the frontier is considered most extraordinary. The Debate contains an article on the Credit Mo bilise in which it describes, at great length, the put operations and Inters prospects of that institution. This article is understood to be, in point of fact, no. thing more than an advertisement, pail for at an unusually high rate. The Archduke Maximilian yesterday paid visits to Prince Jerome, Prince Napoleon, and the Prinoess Matbilde. The Prince afterwards went to the Aus trian embassy, where the members of embassy and a number of Austrians of distinction now in Paris were presented. In the evening a grand dinner was given in his honour at the Palace of St. Cloud, at which the Princes and Princesses of the Impe rial family, the Austrian ambassador, the ministers, the grand officers of the crown, and their ladies, were present. Dr. Gobat, protestant bishop of Jerusalem, has just arrived at Marseilles. M. Gobat was at Nablous only a few days before the late outbreak, and left it just in time to escape those scenes of disturbance. A telegraphic despatch announces the arrival of General Edgard Ney at St. Petersburg on the 14th. The Revue Coretemporaine publishes the following incident connected with a small volume recently pub lished by a Mdme. Blanchette, who fills the situation of book-keeper in a house of business, and who, as may be supposed, has not much time for literary pur suits. Her publication, however, lately caused her to receive the following letter from M. Mocquard, private secretary to the Emperor of the French : Madame,—Hav ing had occasion to read to the Emperor NON peerage, from your " Mete et Mathis," his Majesty remarked with Omura Its Aire and animated inspiration. fleets informed hie M.j.sty that In sot sequence of your position you wanted the time so necessary to pets. The Emperor, in order to facilitate your leisure non see magi your aitempts, hes charged me to send you the enclosed sum of I,OOOE 1 am happy, madame, to he the intermedial of the generous attention of which you have well merited to be the aided. The Bourse hes been very good. The Rents rose 15c., both for cash and account, closing firm at 75.40 and 75.60. Credit Mobilier rue 30. The Orleans Railway rose 201., and was in great demand, the treaty with the rand Central being considered ex ceedtngly advantageous for the Orleans shareholders. Grand Central fell 10! oe 12f., but subsequently recovered a little, a good many purchases being made with a view to obtain the new shares, and also shares io Sansone Railway. Lyons rose 12.50. Mediterra nean fell 7.60. The other lines were very firm. SPAIN. MADRID, ML: 16, 3 P.M. &patter* hear just arrived here. ST, PETERSBURG, MAT 14. General Edgar Ney, the bearer of the Emperor's answers to letters of notification of the accession to the throne of the Cur Alexander, and to a letter of congratulation on the birth of the Imperial Prinoe, arrived at St. Petersburg to-day. A despatch from St. Petersburg, which reached Vienna on the 1&b, announces that the Emperor Alexander will arrive at Warsaw on the 22nd. General Gortcbakoff is to reach that city ORO day before his Majesty. The Tried Zeilumg learns from Athens that the French commander nu communicated to the Greek government his intention to extend the rayon at occc• pation to Thebes, "tor the protection of the people against the robbers." PANAMA. An American sloop of war bad arrived off Panama, having been called to the coast by the report of the Ist° loss of life. It was not known what coarse the American government would pursue. The Panama Star has the following, written by an Englishman, on the late outrage : On the morning after the conflict the writer of this west down. Tiresome was awful. The streets approaching the station, 'moor the into hut,, wars strewed with crit ique trash. and beery coil, of ropes from the stores; the doors and tables of the ticket ofilcs were smeared with blood, or blackened sad torn up by closely diszberged mus kets, the ball leaving a track across the burden.) it buried itself, after having traversed the body of the unfortunate who lay dead on the filer. In the large room thrre lay twelve holey, each containleg • dead man. The ►tit wee jirt being nailed up as I entered, and be could not be distingsbhad from blood. Where the heeds of those poor fellow. rested %acre were the pillows with a pool of bo od end brains in the metre. The agonies simpeakable of dtath h.d paned, and now on a cart each one was taken to an a•knowe grave. Fathers, husbands, brothers, midway be tween the country they had left and the eouatry they sought, all foetid • bloody, untimely gran. Shun niog the doubtful Nicaragua transit, the most of them were, protrahly, erjoying the moonlight *tune of the Bay of Panama. wins their families, °reading in the protection of • governmi nt (which, at leer, had a little better name than th.t of Welker'.), when the row that terminate! their lives begin. It is, I believe, generally corcided the qu,rrel hese° on the put of some hasty and rude American, and the ier West sa•araam of • 8 nib dm, r:c in black. But the Pleaders were the saw from • bidden, pent-up sonic •, to welch the original quarrel merely meted as the raising of • floodgate. DEATH OF LORD ADOLPHUS Fl. We regret to hare to record the death of Rear- Admiral Lord Adolphus Fitsolannos, who aspired at hell put 10 o'clect oft Saturday night, at Newburgh Park, the seat if Re George Wombwell, is Yorkshire. The noble and gallant Lord since the paralytic attack by which he was struck on Thursday, the first Lis medical attendants held oat no hopes of his re covery, hG frame being much enfeebled by his need severe and restrained illness. General and Lady Mary Fox, end L r 1 Frederick Gordon Rally beams, were with their relative at h s dissolution,which took place without the least apparent pain, D:cture Babington and Simples, and Mr. Ash, the medical gentlemen in attendance, and Sir George Wombwell wale also present on the mournful oneaslon. Lord Adolphue Fitsclanace was third son of his lets Msjsaty William IV., by Mrs. Jordan. He wu bora 18th February, 1802. His lordship enteral the navy soon after he had competed his 16th year, as midshipman, on board the Spartan, 46, Captain W.F. Win, C.B. He was made a lieutenant, 231 April, 1811, and appointed to the Burnam, 42, that year. Oa being made commander, 17th May, 1823, in December that year he we/ appointed to the Brisk sloop, in the North Sea, but was removed to the Redwing in February following. The gallant officer was promoted to the rank of post captain 24th December, 1824, and in February, 1826, he wee appointed to command the Ariedne, 26, in the Mediterranean. In July, 1828, he was appointed to the Challenger, and conveyed the late Eul of Dalhousie. late Governoi -Gummi of Canada, from Quebec t England; and subsequently, in 1828, took that nobleman in the Pallas, 42, as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, and also the Lard Bishop of Celestes to Bengal, after which he brought home General Viscount COMlNfilalf• and his staff. After his father ascended the throne he was made captain of the Royal (hogs yacht. lie was also made Groom of the Robes to his late Msjeety, with the rank of Groom of the Bedchamber, and was shortly after advanced, with the other children of the King by Mrs. Jordan, to the rank of • marquis's younger soil. In January, 1833, he was made a Lord of the Bedchamber to tits King, and (car • time held the ofilose of deputy ranger of Busby-park and of Windsor Home pork. Lord Adolphus continued to hold the com mand of the Royal Yacht until be obtained his flag rank of roar-admiral, 17th September, 1853, when in December thee year ha was succeeded in the command of kit Majesty's Yacht by Captain the lion. Josh. Denman. In 1832 his lordship conveyed to the late Riot of Freesia a beautiful miniature frigate, a present from Williams IV., and was on that suasion crested • Keight of the Red Eagle of Prussia of the first elan. He was also a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Ooelpio Order, to which he was sominated 24th February, 1832. By the melaneboly event the families of the Borland Cous teau of Manatee, Lord Frederick and Lady Augusts Gordon Bellybutton, Lard end Lady De Lisle and Dad's', Viscount and Vieesantess Campden, the Earl and Countess of Erroll, Lady Frederick Pauline's, General and Lady Mary Fes, aka., are placed in moaning. PIIINCS FREDIIIIICK WILLIAM OP Prunela.—lt deflaitively arranged th►t Pence Feeder ek Wtlli.m , eldest sea of the Prince of Primal., will lend at D4VIII tc-sorrow afternoon, and will at onto leave, attended by a numerous suite, for Osborne, on a visit to bee Majesty and his Royal Highness Price. Albert.. His Royal Hi/linen during his sojourn in this country, which it is contemplated will not exceed the last week is June, will be t►e guest of the Queen. As oar readers are aware, the illustrious Priam is stated to be the suitor for the hand of the Princess Royal. The Rail of Clarendon, the Right Hoo. M. T. Beim. the Right lion. R. Vernon Smith, and the Ch.'. 'allot of the Racheqsar bare remained in town during Me MOBIL The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Labor 00000 came to town on Saturday from their country seat. The Earl Grenville, the Lord President of the Council, accompanied by the Comtism, arrived is town late last night, from visiting Sir limber' and Lady Raily Peel, at Dnytoa Manor, Staffordshire. The Duke of Hamilton hu arrived at Howohin's Hotel, Bt. leineee-street, from Pati•. The Duchess of Grafton will be " at home," on Thursday mat, at the rawly suasion la Claws-meet. The Countess of Winterton'e wire* &manta will take plaoJ on the 10th proximo, at her residence, 37, Post- The Earl and Countess of Portsmouth will return to Howehin's Hotel t:-morrow, from their mat in Hamp shire. Tits Earl Fitshardiege is still sufferiog from very bad health, at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. Lord and Lady Carbery and family bare arrived et their residence, 11, Lowaderetreet, for the seems. The Hon. Mr.. Hughes has issued oar& of invita tion toe ball for the 6th of lone. Lady Peel, accoaipacied by Mr. Frederick Peel, M.P., will retain to lowa to-day, from peering the holidays at Hampton Arden, the bon. gentleman% mat la Warwick shire. Sir John and Lady Yard* Bailer gave dinner par. ties en Friday and Saturday traaisp, at t►eir rasidecoo, Belgravr-squara. Th. Bail and Countess of Derby gave a grand dimity oci Saturday evening, at their mansion in St. Junes-square, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge and a diatingoiebid circle, Iscludiag the Earl sad Coastal* Delawarr and Lady Arabella Wett, the Earl and Cora eis of Wiltoa and Lady Cotberine Egertoo, the Earl of Carnarvon, Viscount cad Vimounteta Newport, VOC3IIIII Valletort, Vieounat Caatetbary, Lady Churchill, lir. Lum ley, Mr. Elliott, CJlontol the Hos. James M•cboaald waiting en the Doke of Cambridge), lira Steals', Lady Emma Stauley, and the 800. Frederick Smithy. the Countess ban so tunably otter the banquet. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff gas* a grand dinner, on Saturday last, at the resideom or tee Prussian Legation on Carlton-house terrace, to tb• Ansbaseadm of Planes and the Counties de Persigny, the Belgian Minister and Modem. do Weyer, the Austrian Minister and the Constr.!' critypony, the Marquis d'Aregllo, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Westmorland, Viscount Chelsea, M.P., Lord aid Lady W.. PJwiett, the Right Ron. Charles P. Villiers, and Mr Doyle. The Countess subsequently held a riacept`on, which was bril -1 liently attended. OD Saturday last Mr. Justice Willis was married at fit. Pater'a Choral, Rates-.gears. to the daughter of the late T. Jesaisp, E q., of Cora. General Chesney end Mr. W. P. Andrew had en interview with his Highness Lail Pastes, the Grand Vizier, et Claridge 's Hotel, on the 17th inst., regarding the Euphrates Valley route to India. LORD PALMERSTON'S IILALTII.—The Premier hoe osjoymi better Lealth. He arrived in London on Friday, from ittoedlends, Manta ; attended the Cabinet Dossed yesterday, at the Foreign-olloe ; ad *set to Drechet-hall, Herta, yesterday evening, from whams ha is eaptoted is Loads to-morrow Mlflllllr, to be present at the bidding for the loan In the monies, sod at the nisi* of the Howe of Cameos in the aftersoos.—Oheartrr. SATURDAY HALY-HOLIDATIL—Mr. Medd, of Leadenhall-strut sad Regent-strut, has made arrange. assets for allowing hie astiranta a half-holiday on alternate Saturday►—the servicirs etas Keil number Wag dispensed with es mot Saturday ahroag►ost tha year. THZ Burion..—ianigit (Mood y) ill* Chancellor a the authopes win mike Ids llasaaial atatiesasat. THE STATE OF PARMA. --- A correopoodent of the l imes writes from Parma en the Bth The state of siege ls ezensive:y rigorous gad annoying to the inhabitants. After tan at night Aus trian patron arrest every man they meet in the streets. tarn tbao 200 have bees thus wrested. Words cto rcareely describe with what indignity these pees ins, whe are only arrested op suspicion, are treated in the risons where they are shut up indiscriminately. 8 inetiLaes twenty days elopes before they ore examined, when nest of them against whom nothing can be proved are set at liberty. The prisons in which polltiol offenders are locked up are guarded by Austrian*, and is reply to the request of some of these War:mate inns ' east saws to be' allowed to purchase some better food, the Austrian wit, vented that “i risen fare was quite Rosa enough for than." The persona arrested belong shit fly to the working cletses. When one of them is arrested, the sb p in which be works is also ironisdietely shut up, and thus whole families are punished on a simple ground of sus *iota against an individual member, and, should any kind. hearted friend offer relief, he is immediately arrested and throws into prison for baying Awn sympathy for a sue weed panne. The arrest of fifty young men who have been sent off under an escort to Mantua has aroused public indignation to so estraordiwary pitch. The Austrian author'. ties themselves own that the only cause of their arrest was that they were knows to entertain political principle, not fah, eonforniable to noes entertabeed by the g sot nf Parma. The Austrain general said that they would not be brought to trial, but 'imply be locked up in the foams of Mantas until they lied emu evident proofs of a return to better sentiments Inwards their legitimate government. Some of theca unfortunate young men were arrested by mistake, and, on a representation to this effect being made, the Austrian metal rep led that he was cony for it, hot he could not release them, as it would be dangerous to admit that the authorities °mild commit an error." The AIaRICAN Mans.—The royal mail steam ship Africa, Captain stow, sailed hoes the Mersey, on I Saturday, about 10 a m., for New York, with the usual weekly malls for the North American, Coetisent i , sine ty three psemagers, and a far cup) of seertheadise. AMERICAN AND CANADIAN RAILWATIL—The close of this year said ha resserksble is the sonata of stases son railways is America sad Outdo. The completion of the Wm& Central from Cbiesso to s jaaction with the Mobile sad New Orleans railways will mimeo the valley of the Mbeistippt with the valley of the St. Lamasett, sad suable wavelets to resell New Orleans free' Liverpool is fifties days Ma Fatima. ITALY. - e - MOW OIIR OWN 001 NAPLES, MAT 12. His Majesty has been ordering the construction of roads near Ave Moo, the effect of which will be almost to isolate Beneventum. He has also ordered the construction of five new fortifications at Gaeta, and has given directions for fortifying the island of Sora. Add to this that the commanders of the for tified places en the coast Lave been summoned to Caserta. There has been, therefore, a great display of civil and military engineering, one consequence of which will be to add to the expenses of the budget. "It is with great diflitulty," said a merchant to ire, "that either I or any one can get any payment oat of the Treasury." I believe that the Minister of Finance retards them, so as to induce complaints, and thus get almost the only possible check to the' expenditure of the King upon his hobbies. His Majesty has not, however, up to the present moment, ordered an amet sty or any ameliorations in the government; sad iudeed, as he does not perceive the necessity for any changes, it is a little too much to expect that any will be made. No oue anticipates any; but supposing an amnesty were granted, it world only be accepted by those in prison as an act of most tardy justice, whilst most of the exiles would fear to place themselves in the power of one in whore word and honour they have no faith. The 30:11 is the royal name day. "Let us wait," say some, " and see what it will bring forth;" but all the ante cedents of his Majesty justify one in believing that nothing will be done but upon compulsion. The secret police are very active in trying to ascot- tain what are the opinions and !eelisgs of the people, with a view to check and punish ; and no regret would be felt, I think, at any disturbance which might have the effect of compromising the liberals, giving the semblance of necessity to any harsh measure,. Thus in Campo Basso it was spread abroad, by in sinuation of government, that a constitution would shortly be given and an amnesty granted. The re joicings of the unwary betrayed their sentiments to the police. The good news was contradicted on the following day, and a petition against the restoration of the constitution was carried about amongst the merchants for signature. In the communes of Grumo St. Antimo, and Cosandrino, in the neighbourh ood of the capital, several arrests have been made on the ground that the parties had said that in a shoe time the consti tution would be re-established by fbreign it finence. In fact, the greatest caution is observed in not per mitting any allusion either to an amnesty or any in novations. That such a course should be so obsti nately persevered in at the present moment strikes one with wonder, and appears to be little short of madness, but for the tact of the truth of which I am assured that, notwithstanding appearances, the counsel of Austria has been, up to the present mo ment, to resist all remonstrances, all tendency to change. Of course this must be the game of Austria: she only wants an excuse for continued interference and occupation, and that excuse will always exist as long as justice is unknown in Daly. Scarcely any fresh purchases of grain have been made for exportation. Wheat has risen to 2.15 per tomolo, or full 3s. per quarter, and the exchange on London has fallen to 533. Our weather has been wretchedly cold, rainy and stormy, and to this princi pally is to be attributed the rise in the price of grain. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Hwal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey this morning at 8 a.m. from Boston and Halifax, with 143 passuagers and above 190,67 W. in specie. The Arabia sailed from Bot. ton at noon oa the 7th instant, and from Halifax 9th instant. The Royal Mail steamship America arrived at Halifax on the 7th inst., having lett Liverpool on the 26th ult. The steamer Edinburgh arrived at New York from Glasgow on the 4th iustant. The Arabia passed a large screw steamer bound west on the 13th. The New York Herald announces, and the Daily Times contradicts the statement, that the Washing ton cabinet had resolved to recognise the Nicaraguan , government of Walker. The last-mentioned journal says : A very strong immure is brought to bear upon the Pre- ' sident, to induce him to tecogoiee Walker's government in I N imagism, ana to commit this cool try to its mainteeance and support. The near approach c f the Cincinnati colleen tine renders President Pierce peculiarly sensitive to all ap peals of this kind ; and the fear is earnestly expressed, so well-informed quarters, this be may plunge the notion into all the perplexities and p• rile of such a course, in the h pi of currying hie re-nomination by a orm. M . Davis and Cushing in the cabinet, sustained and stimulated by the fillibusters of the democratic party in the Southern Stater, will make every possible eff.rt to posh the Fresid Lt over this precipice. Thi y have di s:gos of their own to be ex compli.bed by it; and they are not men ro be stopoed in the pursuit of any selfish scheme by crnsideratiJcs of justice or the public good. The New York Times examines closely the various accounts of 'Walker's position, and finds on the Ist of April, he commanded at the most not more than 800 men, and so distributed as to enable him to bring only 500 to bear in the way of attack upon any given point. Five hundred of these were at Rivas, 120 at Granada, 60 at Leon, 30 at San Carlos, 50 at Castillo, and 40 at the mouth of the Serrapiqui. On the 3rd of April he was obliged to abandon Rivas through want of food, and to return to his old head-quarters at Gra nada, uniting his command of 500 with the 120 (probably reduced to 100) nada Lieut.-Colonel Piper, who had been left in charge of that town. It was at this place and thus conditioned that on 7th April he received news of the invasion of Nicaragua by the Costa Ricans, and the occupation of Rivas by 2.000 of their force. He de termined instantly to march against them, and it is reasonable to conclude that for an effort so desperate, he took with him every soldier who could be spared from the defence of the city. He, set out on the wont ing of the Bth, and the Nicamguensi reports his march to have been made with 500 men, which in cluded 100 native troops. He made his attack upon Rivas on the morning of the 11.11, maintained a struggle of 17 hours, and then retired, with a loos of 30 hided, and of wounded and missing some 60 or 70 more. Thus reduced he fell upon Granada, and there the latest advices leave him with probably less than 500 r ffective men under his command. Therefore, concludes the same paper, Ha position may be regarded as perilous in the extreme ' and if the unarmed 300 new recruits have reached him, his distress will be aggravated rather than rt- I lieved, for he mil no longer afford to share his food with any except those who bring arms to fight For want of food ha was obliged to abandon It yes; btain food now he is obliged rot only to elect 'creed loses from a ditafft mad city, bat to prevent the intmitaeti from taking their de- parsers, in order that he may share the small supplies .bleb their sympathising emsetry people lring in as loe'g as they remain. For a hug time his troops have been sub.at. log on half rations, and the relief he wants is Hire, mess I beef and :ether than supplies of met. it le an I erroneous notion that his troops can fled relief in the scion mewls liberality of nature. That is • resource for the Costa Means, but to Americans the 'wive fruits are deem. r even unto death, and lace alreed y filed the churchyard of , Granada with their victims. The fate i,f Walks end his , enterprise lie. bete ern the 20th of April end the 20. h of May. If he can maintain himself until the latter date, the ' chances will be in his favour. In the Senate on the sth inst. Mr. Clingman asked leave to submit a joint resolution authorising the Pre sident to employ any part of the laud or aural forces, and to call for and use any number of volunteers, to provide for the safety of passengers and property on thoroughfares or lines of travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as guaranteed by existing treaty stipulations. Considerable debate ensued, and the house finally adjourned without ' receiving it. Sheriff Jones of Kansas had been shot. He rode l . into Lawrence on the 23rd with a detachment of Dragoons to arrest citizens on a charge of not render- 1 , iog proper aid to his officers on a previous occasion. At night about 11 o'clock, while sitting in a tent with some soldier., he was shot by some one outside, who fired a pistol, the ball taking effect in the back, just below the shoulders. Jones fell back with a groan, was taken up, and carried to a room in the Free-State Hotel, where his wound was dressed by Dr. String fellow, of Atchison, editor of the Squatter Sovereign. A correspondent on the spot writes : " Jones is con sidered in a very critical position, his spine has be come paralysed, and the doctor has pot him under the influence of opiutir. It was very dark at the time the pistol was fi red, and no one saw the person who did it" TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. FIFTH DAY. The proceedings were resumed this morning at ten o'clock. The jury were escorted to the env in the corody of the officer. in whose charge they had been placed shortly before the court was f irmally opened. Lord Chief Justice Campbell and Mr. Justice Creseweil took their seats upon the bench pre ci,ely at ten o'clock, and immediately afterwards the prisoner was plated at the bar. Ile exhibited a more depressed appearance than wee oh rentable on Saturday, and paid the deepest attention to the evidence. The Attorney-General, Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Webby, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Haddiestone were an attend• once on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. Serjennt Shee, Mr. Grove, Q.C., Mr. Gray, and Mr. Kamenley, the counsel for the prisoner, were a'so in attendance. Th. following additional testimony wu adduced: . . _ Dr. Alfred S. Taylor was the first witness examined by the Attorney.Gleneral.—He said: I am • fellow of the College of Physicians, and have lectured upon medical jurisprudence at Ouy's Hospital, and I am the author of a treatise opus that 'eject. Among others, I have made the poison called sttychnine the staj ct of my attention. It is the produce c f cue •,mica. There is another poison called pruscia derived from roux vamica. Pruscia is from one sixth to one-twelfth weaker than steychnis. There is a good deal of impure stryct Ma sold, which contains a considerable (mantity of prunes, so that if you are nct aware of the purity a the article you may be mistaken in the strecgth. I h eve tried a variety of experiment. upon animal life with strychnis, but I have never witnessed its action on a hawse subject. I have tried its effect, upon animals tea or twelve times. Rabbits are the only animals I have tried it upon, and the tymptores upon the whole have been very uniform. I generally ad ministered from one half-grain to two grams. I have Toned a half-grain sufficient to &allw the lifer of a rabbit. I have administered it in a solid end also in a liquid state. Its operation is much quicker when administered in a fluid state. In that condition it takes effect in a very few minutes. When administered as a pill it takes ten or eleven minutes before it begins to takes ffect. In my opinion the poison is first absorbed ins the bl oil, then circulated through the body, and (specially acts upon the spinal cord. It is from this pert of the body that the servo pro ceed which affect voluntary motion. The circulation of the blot through the whole human ay stem takes place about oast in every four misuses. In an animal the c.r ciliation is quicker. The absorption, I think, would also take place quicker in an animal; but this would probably depend on the state of the stomach and whether there was much food in it, or whether the vision comes into imamate contact with the inner sure cc of the stomach. The poison most first be absorbed before it acts upcn the system. For five or six minutes after the poison is administered the animal does not appear to cuff, r, but moves about freely acd actively, and then suddenly fails on ite side, and there is a trembler g of the whole of the mus cles of the body—a sort of quiveriug motion arising from the poison producing violent and taut entity contraction,. There se then a sudden paroxysm or fit. The fore legs are stretched out and the hind legs are stretched out; the head is drawn back, and the tail, so as to give the form of a bow ; the jaws are spasmodically closed ; the eyes are prominent. Atter • short time there is a sight rceoi , coo of the symptoms, and the animal ep,wars to lie quiet; but the saghtest noise or touch predoces en r paroxy.m. 'There is sometimes a &cream, or sort of shriek, as if the animal suffered severe pain ; and the heart b &!J v.i:Oently after each fit; acd ef ow • 'emersion of these fits the animal dies quietly. It would sop wr trot. this that there is some remission of the pain just before death After death the appearance. differ ; 30 some vises the mural is rigid throughout, and the muscles so strongly contracted for a week afterwards, that it is psa,ibte to hold the animal horizontally by the hind legs without the body falling for ward. In one case the body scrit flu' cid immediately alter death, but became rigid in about dee minutes. I pure opened the bodies of several animals thou destroyed. I have never discovered any traces of injury to the stomach or inteetinee. In one or two cues I have found congestion of the vessels of the membranes of the spinal cord and brain—more than would be accoated for by the gravitation of the blood. In oth, ra I have act mend the spinal cord in any way affected. I ascribe the contrition to the succession of tits toe animal has bad before death. In • tn. jot oy of mast • noes I have failed to ciseovcr any abnormal coalition of the brain and @phial cord. All that I have observed about the heart in such caws is, that it has been congested and the right side (specially. I have not bad much experience of caw• of tetanus in the human suhjest. 1 saw one la t Thursday week in St. Thomas's Hospital. The patient recovered. I agree with the other medical gentlemen who have been examined, that the symptoms of Mr. Cook are sine IST to those in the ease e. f strychnine poisoning, and to [howl I observed in all the animals to whom I have administered that poison. As f 0 eke period from the administration of the strychnine to the c eath of the animal—one died in Mitt. oo minutes, and another in seventeen. The eymptoms come on more rapidly -hen the strychnine is administered in a fluid state. All my recent sap riments bare been confined to the administration of strychtine in a solid state. Death oteerted is *OVID minutes boat the meat of the symptomr, making thirteen minutes altogether, in one ease; us another, the whole period was seventeen minutes; in a third, in eighteen ininutte ; in the fourth, the symptoms appeared in nine minutes, and the death in twenty-two in the fifth the symptoms appeared in twelve minutes, and the death in twen•y-three. I should say it would require a longer time to act on the human subject if • taken as a p•II, because it,would require the structure of the pill to be broken up, in o.der .e brag the poison in contact with the mucous membrane of the stomach. I do not think it is possible is twee a cermet opinion whether it would take a Linger time to destroy life by strychnine in a human sulj-ct than in an animal ; because the system of ahsorption is very different in an animal t that to the human subject. There would also be a dif feretel between one human subject and another. A great deal would also depend nixie the strength of the • cow. I have tried eaperimerts to reproduc. the strychnige. ' The stomach is I laced in alcohol, with a mewl quantity of sulphuric acid, to dissolve the a ryclinine, and we thus get sulphate of strychnine. The Iquid is then Mimed, gently evaporated, and an alkali added, such u mahout* of potaw, and this precipitates the strychnine if it is t resent. There are other tests that are applied to the stry-enine, or the supposed stryetnine, wheo detected. fitrecheice has a • very tecu , isr tat t,—• sir 'nifty bitter mete. It is insoluble in water and soluble in acids and alcohol. Coloured testa are applied to the Cry robin* of the evaporation. A mixture of sulphuric acid, very strong, led bi.chromme of potass produce a blue colour, which changes to a violet, to a purple, and patting to a red. These colour ing tettiare, however,very Letluiouseacept where them:3Th ! nine is separated and in a crystallited state, when we have • recognised de , crystals by their form, and, above all, when these et mule produce sesame symptoms of death by being introduced into the skin of an animal 1 from a wound. re are other vegetable matters that would produce tne same colours assn., choice under the coliuriog tett , . A mixture of sugar end bile would produce the purple tint exact:y the same as strychnine, and in some cases it has b en supposed that there wee strychnine when in point of fact the colour was di riv.el from these substaccse. It also has a bitter taste, and smells, in that respect, also be iniveken for strychnia. Vegetable poisons are always I more difficult of detection than unmet sees. I have en deavoured to discover the existence of strychnia in the bodies of tl.a animals I have neetio;ed in four distinct cum, assisted by Dr. Kers, of Guy's 11, spituf I al plied the fencers that I brat descraivd, and also the e t!our tests. I discovered arpearancre if strychnia by the colour teas in one cue, and in another there was s t b h i e tte o r the t r ett ir e . , o b c ti a t .e. th t e her e:le:_% test t titt ee no w t h eLp , ly er . In strychnine. In the case where strychnine was discovered by the colour test the examination took place two days after I death. In me of the owe where a pais of strychnine bad heen administr red 'Ulf • grate only was found in the body. I mini. r that the poison undergoes a gr. at change in the blood wr.iie under the process -I abet rotion. In the instance of the halt grain being found in the stomas`, I am of opinion that Ibis was in 'scum of what was required to destroy lire, and fa the case where the mini mum dose ti destroy life was administered, the whote would be absorbed and have its abaci, and none would be discovered in the body. There ar, no processes for detecting the existence of this p Amin is the tissues of the body. Halt a grain i f stirs conies hes destroyed life. Sat pesicg the whole vet this to be shio-bed by the blood. and taking the quantity of 11 met at filibe., this world give the fiftieth pelt of a prein et a ponied of blot. A physi- I Man died from that foie. I believe that the substance un,ergoes ago some p rebel clung. in the blood, and th:s would ic cream the clifficu:ty of separating it from the tissues. The crystals produced in the use of strychniae ' are of a very peculiar form. Trete are other substances similar to them, s i that a chemist woe! I not rely entirely non their form, but they are peculiar. After the j post martins examination of the deceased, a portion of the untentanf the stomach wasdelived to mein a t town stone* by Mr. Boycott. It wu fastened down,covered with bladder, end nil and sealed. Toe icr routine& etoinath and notes:lees of John Parsons ent.k. I eapirimented upon the contents of the jar to discover if they coat cried soy pinion. IWe torght for various poirone—trorie elutes acid, robes, strychnine, mretie, oil cl them., anemic, mercury, and other =Metal poisons. We only found email traces of antimony. The circumstances under which the testa for the discovery of poison were made, were the moat unfavourable that could be possible. The stomach had b ten cut from end to end, all the contents were retie, and the fires mucous outface on which any poems if present would he tuned was lying in contact with the out ' side of the intestines, and all thrown together. [here tow al o feculent nutter on the surface of the mucous membrane. This wee owing to the fault or the misfortune of the per-