The Express. — London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

gibe eXPrefif‘• TO CORRERPONDIVIS. eleertiormesta Warted Int "The %miss sort be at the O. 10. by Tioo t hil e t fir Yr of pobtlettlos. HIGH WATIA AT LONDON 111111 Del. Ti.l Sli. Ds. Tooseamow—licralas„ Ua. 3a—...—Mscassa. 444.6 LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 14. ANOTHER rotten borough has ban repurchased by the Tories, and some well-messing Liberals go about wond:ring how it hes come to pass—as if there Won any mystery in the matter, or any new political significance in the fact. What has happened at Athlone is, indeed, thecounterpart of what occurred a few weeks ago at Sligo and New Roes; but it simply amounts to this—that the Derbyitee being pommeled with the notion that half-a-dozen votes more or less may be of eonnqutoce some fine erasing between this and Midsummer, they have given orders to buy freely whenever opportuoity serves; and as their brokers have always been men of experience, they have naturally fixed their unscrupulous attention cn the cheapest article that is to be had for tho money. Comities and large towns are seldom worth winniog in this way in the latter days of • Parliament; and even places in England having the avenge number of electors can not be rifled without an amount of illicit expenditure that would hardly be sanctioned by any Chancellor of the Carlton Exch. quer. Party purses are not io these days as big oa they once were; and with the danger hanging over their heads of the Minister being provoked into a dissolution, the managers of the finances of faction do not venture to stake too heavily on' any particular seat. Of the rotten boroughs in England a moiety are already held by the followers of Lord Denny, and the remainder are not to be filched out of the hands of their owners by any method or vat mom. Those on the other aide of the Channel present a more tempting aspect. There, unfor tunately, a state of things has been permitted most pestilently propitious to any sudden raid of the kind in question. 01 twenty-nine boroughs return ing one member each, more than twenty contain less than four hundred electors; and the majority of them do not pretend, even on paper, to three. In some of these the old proprietary influence has sur vived the changes of 1832; but in general they have been held, though not without difficulty, and Nes signally some awkward exposures, by politicians pro fessing, with various degrees of fervour and 0011•111 . • teney, attachment to Liberal opinions. Sines the death of O'Corrottt, the extinction of Young In- Lndism, sod the gradual decadence of religious agt. tatioo, the popular party in Ireland has been in • state of unprecedented apathy. No local organisation of any kind exists to keep alive active sympathy, or to baffle the selfish end scrdid projects continually being conceived against the repressotation. Most of the =WI boroughs, as we have said, have been left destitute by the Legislature of any electoral strength adequate to resist sudden attack from without ; and when the assault is led by one of load knowledge and connexion it is only mat wallow how it should ever fail. There still exists in every little town like New Ross, Sligo, sad Athlone, a scapist remnant of the old Orange party, who sestinas to preserve their habits of combination and their means of rapid and affective esseset. At their bead a member of one of the neighbouring !utilise would at any time be powerful, but it is only in periods of prevalent quiescence that he can ordinarily hope to sussed; and eves then the odd trick is only to be mode by resort to lassie. In this latter accomplishment the Tories have lately because considerable proticients. Under the lead of that conjurer Mr. Daunt they have ac gybed a certain fatality in the legerdemain a:pledgee and general principles. Ones on a times Tory country gentleman, whatever his faults sad &het& was above all things a man of his word; end though you might not like his narrow or obsolete sakes, you always felt that you knew when to have him. But much of this frankness and =un til-fact disposition has been winnowed away by the inveterate practice of persiflage and *qui. resaties. For want of anything bitter, the Coosarvatives, as a party, have ban hie to try what out be made of basting doubtful edam and playing a feeble part al the haelmga, All this, however, would not avail if the moresollilpsals of their *intestates to get Into Parliament Itiintleau i t. lag. With pliant opinioss and substantial *pantie need over night, they have succeeded a neissinabs themselves of three boroughs whose eggrople voters taken together have not bees found to maw slx hundred individuals. Of this dab germs asst to be exceedingly proud, and theeghtless Liberals look as though they were ball sassed. There is m little ground for the one feeling as for the other. The real marvel would be if, ender the circumstances, the result had bees other than it has ben. We have lened it said, with plausible Phew of rum, that if the Opposition were se sager just now to obtain votes in the Misuse. any bow and say where, the Ronan, petition would na g ha ve b een abandoned. But this like the rest is mere semblance, not reality. At the last geoe rat &Woo both erste for Rochester were WOO iu the newel way by the Tories. On the retirement of Kr. Fenix breweries a °oldest took plus, and the Whig proved semiarid. A petition spinet the Mani was presented se a matter of WHIM; bat looking to the Vetere es well u to the present the en dorsers of the late honourable member judged it ivies, not to penned therewith. Every au at all acquainted with elections keens that it is considered bad teed.. in those who rely on corrupt Musses to present* a petition on any plea that seems to involve inquiry into the general method of procedure in the borough. Mr. WIC.111•11 KAITI/I'S counsel met the case suggested by his opponents with the fairest (billings to persevere, and the boldest dogmas to the proof. But the Tory managers sagaciously destined entering into the controversy. They evidently felt it impossible to say what might tern up in the curs of the investigation detrimental to their simple-hearted views in that nineties whenever smother dissolution comes; they knew how costly an affair is a petition, and they made up their mind' that it would be cheaper to buy Blip sad Addeo* than to risk exposure at Rochester. Who will say that they made a bad bargain for their peeps's? Let the Liberal party throughout the kngdoes, however, look seriously at the deplorable fest that mats in Parliament are still at the disposal of some flia-soers householder. in obscure country *war, end that even for them there is not any prelestioa against udoe influence is the mode of vette& Can anything nuke each a system work WWI* or *ell? Barely it is time that the assetnene ansuelhe pervading every part of our repisesetetteeiestitadens wire calmly and effeeteally dealt with. The Warsaw journals seasonal the death edited& braise Polish pert, Csjetas K viaLaa, iswl 78. liftlim■ft Ine Court. Auticobaviogappeerod insane of Saturday's papas that no Drawing-room would be held on the day appointed for die celebrant)," of her Msjesty's hiedsday, we bs authority to state diet this sec mincemeat was made in: error. and that hoe Majesty will hod • Drawing-room on' - the 29th of May, in crl. Oration of that t vast. Her Moja', sad Primes Albert sad Prince Brant of Leleingen visited the Dubin of Kent ea Friday mains, at Clarence-home, St. J sneer. The QUIIIMI and the Prince Consort rode on bombs& on Saturday amnion, attended by the Hon. Eleanor 'Stanley, Lori Alfred Paget, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. Priem Albert 'resided on Ssturday at a meotian of the Royal Commission fee' the Eshihition of 1851. ilia Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace of Westminster at 11 o'clock, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. The commis eiosirs presto' were the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Ellin mere, Lord Stanley of Al Riley, L rd ()wantons, the Chan cellor of the En - uglier, the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin H JI, Bar., M P . the lisght Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., the Righ• Hon. W. B. °tediums, M.P., Sir Aleasader Spear man, But , Sir Charles Beery, Sir Williams Cishitt, Sir C. L. Eutlake, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Motehison, Sir Richard Weetniacett, Mr. Batley, Mr. Coulson, Q C., Mr. T. F. Oilmen, Mr. Daniel Sharpe (President of the Geological Societe), Captain Shepherd, Colonel Sykes (Ch.itmen of the But India Company), and Mr. Edgar Bowline (Sermetiry). The enestiog broke up at • quarter befnre 3 o'cl-ek. The Claus snd Prince Albert, accompuied by the Prince., Royal sod Priem Alfred, to • drive oe Satur day Otero° to in an apes lands* and bor. Lord A. Paget and Colonel F. H. Seymour attended on horseback. Prism Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four. Her Mejesty hod a diner party in the evea(og. The company included the Duchess of Kest, th e Priem* Rep), Prince Rums' of Leiniecien. the Dachas of Sutherland, the Arshbiehop of Armagh, the Dabs of Wellierod, Lady Faury Howard, Biroress de Smith, Earl Spencer, the Berl sod Countess of Hardwicke, L rd Adolphus Fitsclarenos, Lady de Tsbloy, Mr. and Lady Theresa Dishy, Mejor- General Sir Harry Jones, sod Sir Charles Lyell. The band of the Coldstream' Guards attended, sod played during dimmer. The Qinen's privets teed afterwards attended in Buck le/hem Palace, sod performed the following selectirn : Overture, "Dee Stet [user fkrg " lf arethaer. Pomade s. Musk "Paint Bathos. Y. etertlay ner Majesty and the Priors Consort, the Prism of Wale., Ohs Prinoess Royal, Primes Alind, the Prisms. Alice, Priam Ernest of Leioiegen, the ladies and gentlemen of the coast, and the &mantis household, attended dines envies in the timid of Bockitighani Palace. Tb. H n and Very Rey. the Dead of Windsor °Belated. The Duchess of Kent visited the Dootoso of Oloasestar ysetuday, at Olosoodor How. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after noon at the Foreign.offloe. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Lebow chere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right lion. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hoe. M. T. Ba s es and the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat four hoar*. A depots*, frets the Tema Conseil of Prates es the subject of the Pella. Bill bad an isterview with Sir George Grey. es Seterday, at the Home °Moe. The deputatiou conisted of the Mayor of Preston, Mr. Alders.* Monk, Mr. Aldermaa Canna!, the Town Cash, and Colossi Wa ne Patten, M P. Meratious of the Orford University Conatissioa wen held at No. 17, Gnat Gana street, Westminster, oa Koaday, Timidity, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, gad Saturdty last. Tile ataairioners present wets the Bari of Bine seem •he Earl of Esnowity, the Bishop of Ilipat, Jos tles Coleridge, the lion. Edward Twisiston, the Dens of Walls, and Sir Jobe Wither Aster,, end the linnteriss. Degyatehos from the Governor of the Copt et Good Hope were received on Saturday at the Colonial dank It appears to be generally believed M Lisbon that Q" Victoria will visit Portugal this yaw. His Royal Highness Prisoe Albeit will, it is wild, pty • short visit to Paris is to. MINS of the 11131 Mer. The °Spit of We Primo, Contort's visit will he tr represent her livjesty at the baptism of the imperial Latest sea of the Rawer sad Mares* of Freese. Visoosatem fallnarston had a " reception" on Sa turday evening, at the madras* of the Premier, es Gal. tea-hone* Terms. Them was a vary fall end feellessble atteedeseo. Previously to the isseptios the noble /Amount sad Viaolatess isteritised the folioed:4 distlagaished party at daises :—The Pangaea" Miaistra sad the Cosa tees Lenisdio, tie fierdlaiint illistster, the Earl end Cass aim of Shafteabery sad Lady V. 010411141 Viawe■t sad Viessaareer eydaey, Vissosat Pordwieb, Ltrd Ashley, lad; Willis. Rowell, the Bum sad Serener de Bathe rand sad Miss De R.thsshdd, the Fresh Chug' de dirties, Mr. Norma Macdonald. sad Mr. Moncktias Miles% M.P. Tb; Doke and Niches, of &wawa sad family, Irks us etevia; at Bowhill, the dual seat la Belkkhalifs. do lot .toad t, eon. to Mostigaa-boaee. Whitehall, until the middle of seat month. TY* Earl of Bakellly ALP., ►oe arrived at Weatague-koase for the wawa. The Duke and bacheas of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Notate Si. aspired to have Baby Castle to day kr tows lot the aotiam. The Earl of OrallyWo has reeevered frost the saws attic* of goat from whieh he has suffered dada( the last fortaight, sad w►ich ins incapacitated hie lowidify fins attoadlag to his 4144 sad parlimmatary duties. TM sobte earl was ambled Warden at the smithy of the Cabinet Moisten as Satarday, at the Foreigc-Allso, sad wiil imam, his plan Is the Heine of Mr is this nosing. We (Peel) nedsretand the Earl of Clarendan has dadalnvely gaol his thwarter, frost Paris fee Loadoa is Saturday neat, smosemaied by the Collillee of Clariadea. The Earl and Coasters el Lisburne hate arrived at No. 4, Ore:esaer•oasast, for tbs souse. it. Earl sal Coastal) of Wilton have. during the bra week. estertaleed a 'eked minds ad Igen= Lodge, Meths Menlo... The Doke sad Driblet of Ileasbester, the Lad sad Counts.. of Cheetorteld. sad Lady Buys eatabspe, have bees mess the paest.. Vie not Falmouth baa left the Clarendon, for Manivertn Calk, win Madames. Lord Adolphu Filuisnoos had a dinser party last eras*, at Ms maiieam in et. Jamas% Palau Amery the gm* wets hi Royal Mohair the Doke of Cambridge, Serom Rietame Pr afee Musa as ame-Weloaar, the Rad of Ramost, Loot Fossils Gordan 11814W:too, Mat ra Sir =dammed Lyme*, Sir George Wombwell, Colonel the Rm. Jams liaedoaald, Sir Delliogbas Graham, deo. Lady Brougham is returned to town from a visit to Lady Mon, at Cobham. Lady Awl Bader aad Lady Oarab Le Par Tres& km joined their family—the Earl sad Ceuta, cf Clam. hefty—et Howehit's Hotel, St. lameehetrem. Tits Marabioneas of Chandas gars birth to a eaallater at Lankly Park, as Fr:day tact. The Herald says Ten thossand rtes are to be seat as Canada hen time Crimea, nadir Sir Riabard arm" TURKISH GUARANTEED LOAN. DEPUTATION TO IL MUSUBUIL On Saturday morning, pursuant to appointment, a der/statism of the holders of Tarkbh gyarsateed beats waited epos tka Ottarasa minister, at his readier% Bryan stoar.equere, to saba , t to Id. Baerlleures storage a pro position for the mammies of the beads. The ispetatisa coadatid of Mr. Oliveira IL P.. Mr. ersufard, Y P., Hr. Rani, sad Mr. H. toottoLd, and wasseesived by hia Basel- Ism with mush courtesy. Mr. OLIVILIZA sztlaised 0104* of the daputalkse, mil stated the malt of his iaismagetlen of the Clunreeller .f the Easempter. who Mil maga MM the gaieties was sae is whirls the Lehi emesariel mold set fainters, bet which they meld assestit a amid may arremeaseat be mooned iota a r the pu.psss with the Parte .ad the Beak of Replied. H. bad aims applied m the Governor of ti. Bask, iron wheat be mai a seder, stating that the Bask was prepared se acwaider plea whisk the Ottemea asisistar might whisk to by gmansmeat tot efeetiaa the *tint I. slew. Mr Ohysise, whit state! that Mr. Bests, Ns., Mr. Meat, M.P., Mr. Lam M.P., Mr. Cull., mid Mr. usieni bed saper•rd their aimed of his smgretise, this reed • Maoism Mr. HatMftese, Maims& if the Mask Zushumga. tg atz= i t tromesead lag test etu. beta lden of ',Oilseeds Imo seglitutad isaadmella Meek, rlialt woad bare the allot of mike Ile sales in the simmt, mad of the ali wilds he meted a atriklag iratmer. The 1 member eaplaiard tally haw the regielselisa of the blade would .p rite in Owl? favour m a seserity. Mr. lama thma addressed the sieierr, esd eimmed that be me a bald,, of Ms beads is tho some •111,103 L, sad bought ass is lisp, sot so a rp 'skim 1 MN' ment!y_ths eigistaallsa meld be is lb sae 'sop ilbolsoldo. Mis Idoodlorep t _llltooprobiloolbi post lisOsort vie aselsed rdOsesiss be Ihosissorrols Wools. GM afar seored visions, whfiwon i sL. W Mr. Craaf sd s .ba../ dos tha prepalltiee Matted is eke adildesol sorority to the ... boirss v. sns busk, sod prombolltbsd he would Mks tm mdlato sups tow ommorissas el& is Porte, or urn es with the 010101111 a of ibe look of Ilagiand, cm the oatiset. The dspoostles. dor tbaskiag Imo Zsoiltosop, tbs s with drew, mist 1064 lila the malt lir *Mr lassrvisw. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, MS.: LITER INTELLIGENCE. THE OVERLAND MAIL. $T stsmmurr Alm sarrsrat ruzazArx.) )loony. The strameaustralia arrived at eight o'clock, ILIA, is 114 boon from Alexandria. APRIL 9. The India Mails leave Alexandria this day ;with dates from Calcutta, March 10, and from Bombiy, March 19. Oade is suite tranquil. Trade dull. Exchange at Calcutta, 2e. 2ed. Lord Dalhousie arrived at Baez on the 2nd, and left for Earope, by the Cando% on the 7th, at Ave P. THE ITALIAN QUESTION AT THE CONGRESS. The Droste, in the souse at a Mg article upon the Italian question, takes upon itself to affirm that the members of the Congress are almost agreed upon • series of propositions, which may be summed up in the following terms: Imps is sot indiffereat to the saisfsetmes of Italy. Is dims the liveliest interest I. the Italia question. Esrope alma Wants the perpetual mistimes in her owe boom of a hotbed of trouble, disorder, amebae', sad revolt. Such a hotbed mists, however, ia Italy. It is for the homer sad interest of Europe to break this up, and sash a result maul be ebtalaed tithes by bloody emotion, or by a system of spresselon though it might palliate the evil foe atlas, would ester ems it, and would inevitably provoke fresh troubles, which should at any east be prevented, M order that it may sot beams amearary to repress them. Italy is a great smutty, peopled by upwards of 26 =Ulises of inhabitaats, whose sow motives have caused profound agltatlea fa Nampo. UM per lily them are viols la the pretreat ermaisetion of Italy, the ✓emedy mast be sought for sad heasetly myeloid. It is ur gent that Europa Mould campy its el f with the Italian viatica. The peoples of Italy suffer. They are la a etas of repression which is irregular, sad mast ems to aa sad. Governments which should admit their iscapeeily te o vens their subject's would set a bad sample—a dangerous example, which would destroy the presage et the pro tective almost ea mask as that of the protected govern ment. Bat, es the cam head, Italy was mutilated each as she le at this day by the Cosines of Timms. The decisions of that Canaries have eat mend to pm' the public law of Swope. They have dud the boundaries of the Italian States, sad proesissed their iadepeaduce. No attack must be made apes the existeue of these Kates or epos the right. wh'sh they pum nese are ao grabble for proeseding to say re-dist:Maths whatever of Italia& territory. Suit re distrihatioes are only made, after keg sad bloody wan, by treatise which reeled and proclaim the new rights of the teaquerms sad the resignation of the vanquished. The late war he. wither lasted Meg mouth, aor base of sallioleat megaitade to lead to say such seeseeley. Finally, great reforms Is the Italia Stiles are indisputable, set only because the peoples dish e and expect Mesa, but eke beams they are gelled foe by the progress of human mum and by the taw relations established bet weft the gusealag classes end the premed, goveraemets being eaUed epee to provide for sow mats, whist are ton sesiagly maaifesting themeless., aad ask Wog abie to make the auseessy provision without the sialifeatee east: subjects. ad the subjects Whig addisted to Mem this slims« where goverameate do sot permit this Ile Shams. the ems of the seams proposed. The sompleimmet sub. 'siestas el the peptise is as finger to be essimed epos; the people maim I. Mew why they me gemmeaded sad why they elmy. true Ia aleasell Mir rat of Europe, sad especially so in Italy. The werissayf gar these reforms has loug bees reeoguieed. I. 111 1 hlsg beaus the SCOW= of Gregory XVI., the great mime of Imps insisted upon obtaining them. Their temessalle ' Ms et Be.. addressed to the Paean' Govelesset a smorsadam on the select, white has become seliabreed. la whist they pointed out what that Gewerusese oaghs do ia the seeieeet isidesse of mama, After giving an extract from this memorandum, and observing that since 1831 the cabinets of Pads and Landes have frequently urged upon the gout& meets of Italy the necessity of entering upon a coon' of reform, the Dilxsts proceeds to nay that the Coi gnes, although nearly agreed apse all the above points, was divided upon others of great importance. The sum sad &abates:4 of the article comes to this, that the Congress is agreed upon outdo general ab• street proposition; but not agreed upon anything to be done practically. When, sad in what manner. Estop is to interfere in Italy, and even whether the Congress is empstent to amidst the matter, are questions upon which, according to the Dibals, the plenipotentiaries are all at sea. The Prism says it is true that Count Came did lay before the Comoros, a memarsodues on the Italian question, but that the memorandum did not emanate from the Sardinian Goverment. It was merely an analysis of the views of certain eminent Italians which H. Cavour submitted to the Conran as a fait reminded= of the state of opinion in Italy. Oar Paris correspondent says :—" I take it to be quits oartain, amidst all the =sanity masigned by multifarious rumours, that this Conran will do nothing whatever for Italy." AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR. The Indipendasice Beige refers to ea Austrian air. calm, dated the 6th, which km, it it said, beta addresed by the Austrian government to its spats abroad. In this document a cause is given of the policy hollowed by Austria in Eastern waive. The Congress is then referred to, sad amongst other words the following ere seed : " Never hes been sees so mush Cents:madam ea one side, and se snub absegatioa ea the ether." Speaking of Turkey, the note expenses a ceefidesca that this state, which bet lately was near its rain, • will. thanks to its entry into the European family, now recover itself. The circular then enumerates the ad vantages neared by the Treaty of Paris, especially Is all that enema the free neigation of the De nobs; and terminates by Invoking the aid of all governments and of all well-meaning men to heal the wounds occasioned by the events of the last few yearn NOTIFICATION TO The Journal de St Petereboterg of the ath instant eontaiss the nodes to toeroltants, relative to the res. toroth)* at ooenstereial relations with certain countries of Europe. issued by the Russia' Minister of Finance, and of which we had hese informed by . telegraph. The tut of this document is es follows: "MOTION FROM THE MINISTRY 07 MANOR. • The treaty ',geed at Paris on the 30t1 of Mara re-establishes between Reads, ea ens side, sad Praises, Great Britain, Sardinia. and Turkey, on the ether, the relations et poses interrupted by the war. " • ' "Our oommerolal Mdatioue with the aforesaid powers who were at war with me, Wog, in mew. queue ef this 'rest, re-established upon the old footing, their •eend. of oommeroe will hesoeforth be sees seam freely admitted into our pate, just as vessels under the Remiss somohast deg will, ea formerly, be admitted into the ports of those powers. "The Ministry of Musa Reknit a duty to bring this fast to thu ksowledge of msrahastu" The sass number of tie down's' de &. Pete►ebwy Nagai= also the following: _ _ _ M His Majesty the Boise delgeed, es the &d, to methods Tres holey the tees exposed= hes the empire of all @psis et gents, seeettlidi to Se :e -pistles lider• established." TIM BALTIC. HAMBURG, SUNDAY. The English fleet, oospesd of the frigates Imps. rime, taryalne, Ppladee, Amphion, and the ow vettes Falcon, Harriet, Cuckoo, and Firefly, hate passed the Belt on their return to England. There is not now a single English vessel in the Baltic. SPAIN. MADRID, IlwrolDAY, APRIL 12. General Zabel& arrived at Valencia on the 11th• A deputation has offered to government the services of the Ayantiancento of Madrid. The municipality of Biscay, which had resigned, has voluntarily with drawn its resignation, and protests its obedience to the order of government and the decisions of the Corte& The news front the Frontiers of France is good. It announces that the Carliat chiefs in that country have been intern/a (ordered to stay in a fixed locality). EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS. SUNDAY EVENING. The Mcmiteur of this morning says : "Lest evening the Emperor gave a banquet to the members of the Courses in the Mall of Marshals at the Tuileries. "All the Members of the Congrees bad been in vited, together with the Foreign Ministers, the Cardi nals, the Ministers of the Emperor, the Marshals, the Presidents of the great bodies, the high Officers of the Crows, the Ambassador of France at London, the Governor of the Invalids., the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Hoeour, the Grand Referendary of the Senate, the Senators, Deputies, high Functiona ries of the State, and the chief Civil and Military Officers of the Emperor's household. The Emperor had on his right his Excellency Lord Clarendon, and on his left his Excellency Count Boot. Hie Imperial Highnem Prince Napoleon at facing the Emperor. He had on his right his Excellency Count Orloff, and on his left his Highness Ali Pack.. "Towards the end of the dinner his Imperial Majesty pronounced with a firm and emphatic voice the following words:—' I propose a tome to the union so happily roestablished between the sovereigns. May it be lasting ; and it will be se if it reposes always on right and justice, and on the true and legitimate interests of the peoples,: " These words were received with unanimous aim of ' Long live the Emperor!' After the banquet the Emperor paired Into the saloon before the Hall of the Throne, and the assembly remained until ten o'clock. Daring the banquet the band of the 'Guides' and the *bobs of the Conservatory per formed alternately some piton of instrumental and vocal mule It appears to be certain that the 9th of moue is the day fixed for the baptism of the Imperial Prince. The programme of the baptism of the' King of Rome is adopted for this ecoadoe. The ceremony will take place in Notre Dame. The Imperial Prince will be taken to Bt. Cloud on leaving the Cathedral. The Emperor and Empress will dine on the day of the christening at the Hotel de Ville, where, after a grand banquet, there will he aMs in the evening. Fêtes will be given successively at Versailles, St. Cloud, and other imperial residences. . Pewee Jerome left the Pallas Royal to-day for the first time since his serious illness. He paid a visit to the Emperor and Empress, and saw the Imperial Prince. On leaving the Tuileries his Imperial High ness took an airing in the Champs Blysees and the Bois de Boulogne. The mixed vessels La Bretagne, Ulm, Pleuras, and the steam frigate Darks have successively arrived at Algiers with General Regnault's division. These vessels left immediately for the Black Bea to take up troops under orders for France. The Pays, alluding to a report that Prince Na poleon would go to Bt. Petersburg on the axial.= of the approaching coronation of the Czar, says it would be contrary to all precedent that France should ba represented at this ceremony by a prince of the blood, and expresses a belief that the rumour is unfounded. The following article in the Stitele chews some of the immediate oonsessences of the woaderful metro politan improvement' in Paris, which do not occur to those who lodge at the palatial Hotel do L0u,,., and are lost in admiration of the long line of colon nades in the Rue Itivoli The allasasageaseses of 8 April (it is well knows that la Pure tide is the quarter-day when small householders the Osage their Weep go ow) have been the signal for • positive smigretioe. The intimate, the small clerks—ed that paptistitia whose salaries or waxes its very limited, have been compelled to expatriate themselves from Paris to thiseburb• Therms, Neuilly, Montmartre, Befignelles, Belleville, have ncelved them vie. tiles of the matiatal Om of rest. If this state of thtep conflate mach letvw, Paris will home" is *my seam of the term, the we•ropelis of the rich. He who may act pos. sew at least 12,000 (mot a year to speed will not be shit' to live within the walla, the heed of oats of the great ealsinet making establishments is ON Pathan fit. Antoine has Mu eons IVery sessible ohserea•ian to us oa this subject. If the sit'seas of Paris. be osys, guild geanally go to live outside the herd" the twaseqssases will be most fatal t, all that 'scanty whin thrives by the ossawfutere of *tildes of tuts sad hwy. The workmate who lodges la P.rie isnot stir a step frost his door ',Most anises; the richly famished shape la ',bleb are displayed the beet specimen of the Wags whisk he himself asks. It is the sight of these deaf drenieree whisk exalts* is ►la that ens. Mks, witheat whisk there ere so geed workasa say nen thou there ars great artists. Beddow, after worlds( bons, the Parts anion has as oppootaaity of sandbag two or trine tints a week those gratuitous intern whin have bees /wended expressly to develop his intelligence. sad reader Isla men ewers Is his Madrona. It is owing to these nun whisk do sot mist elsewhere, that the Petioles hasdicrefulaut bee hitherto hoos—more especially . _ artiolies of lasary—without a rival. Alibis tM list two it three years, slue the erase* he beets drives beyond tho benign by the high rate of holm real—thee, ativeatagos have beets to a real ezteat loot. °stelae the barriers the wo•kossa has as epeeists. to leek at to stimulate hiss, so lectures to improve his West, sad so int/satin but the wise shop. The eassequeasse of this state of thlass are already perespdhls geed wakens ore befouls, soiree. Thy - Pay; esystbat King Otho is ex - paned to make a visit to Waters Europe this spring. It takes the opportunity of singing an ode to peso Arras that war is for ever at an end, mad nodes , takes to say that the government of Greece has altogether repented of its evil coulees. The Mersey arrived yesterday at Marseilles with &deka from Constantinople of the 3rd, and how the Crimea of the Ist last. She ie in qoareatine, with 26 palmier, sad roar sick. M. de Manekeeese, the sexed el the late M. de Hisekeldy is the fatal dash has ressesed his faastleas at tha Iliaistry of the lateeles. M. de Realm, it is stated, is preparing a statement is Jastilsatioa ef his waded. - Oa. of t h e Espreas - Rogeoteo ladles of honour wu takes the other agraiag, by a mistake is the put of bar grusharsa, to sa soweragly eaelasive Legitimist ball la the restroweg et. Gerseste, lasted of to the ball shwa by ale Pruldeet of the Osage of late. Assiged within the ramparts of Troy, the 1•d1 did au at Ina dispute beg error, but set /mike Its Weeds by when the Wallah* bed Um seat, beaus at lea tedeseked. bakedietely ebtahatag ea latradwake to the lady of the braise, eke ea• sued kneel( with peat teat sad mail' good leek, awl thaw left to, the bell whim ale was @erred. PORTUGAL. (7xol 001 001 owit ooa LISBON, APRIL 8. The Deputies still hold in consideration the pro posed adjournment of the discussion on the report of the Finance Committee, and if matters continue in their present state their opposition will probably delay the passing of the financial measures until the Greek Kalends. No doubt they are advised in this, and wish to gain time, and trust to the chapter of accidents. A proposition has been made that a com mittee of five deputies be elected to report upon the actual state of the works of the Central Peninsular Railway, and their value; also, as to the cost of the works to be completed, and of the material to be employed to the conclusion of the line at Santarem. The debates in the Chamber of Peers have chiefly had relation to the propesed alterations of the lei do vineulo, which answers in some measure to oar law of entail, but as yet it were premature to animadvert upon the question. The Madrid steamer, now in the river, met on her voyage from Cadiz, on the 6th inst., at 11 a.m., the barque Canada, which sailed hence for Madras about a month ago. Her bearings were 32 miles S.W. of Cape Espiobel, and her meats were gone close to the deck. Captain Bradshaw, of the Madrid, offered to tow the barque into Lisbon, and to leave the payment for the service rendered to be settled by the tribunal, u usual. This however, the captain of the Canada refused, and dec lined P assistance unless a sum were specified, which the Peninsular Company's regula tions would not allow Captain Bradshaw to agree to. The consequent* was, the Madrid came on without her. The Portuguese steamer Dom Luis afterwards sailed in quest of the Canada, bat has returned this afternoon, having failed in finding her. The Madrid alto brings intelligence of the total loss on the 2nd inst. of the barque Heroine, of Shields, on the Porpoise Rocks, under the lighthouse, at Cadiz. The crew were all mated. The Lisbon exchanges for this psoket are quoted u follows : London, 30 days, 64k; 90 dove, 54 a ; Ham berg, 491 ; Amsterdam, 43k; Geom. 517 ; Pans, 620, at three months' date. On London bills were scarce and in demand, and money remained over at the quoted rate. On Hamburg some transactions were effected at the quoted rate, With money over. On Paris was also done as quoted with paper over. The other ex changes are nominal. The stock 'market is dull. The following are the quotations: Three per Cent. Coupons, 411 to 421; Bank of Portugal shares from 2 to 21 per cent. du. Bank of Oporto charts from 16 to 17 per cent. prem. WEST INDIES. The want of rain is seriously felt at all the West India Islands. Cholera is declining at Porto Rico. About half-past three o'clock in the morning of the 25th ult. a Are was discovered to hive broken out on board the American steamer Osprey, belonging to the New Grenada Canal and Steam Navigation Com pany, then lying off the wharf of Messrs. Finks and Co., Kingstown, Jamaica. The Osprey had arrived late en the previous Saturday evening, from Cartha gena and Santa Martha, on her route to New York, and had been engaged in taking in cargo, with which she was to have taken her departure. Several psa sengers had taken passage in her; some were actually on board, and the luggage of others had been received. As soon as it was seen that the fire could not to got under and the destruction of the vessel was impel table, she was moved out towards the Palisades, where she continued to burn with the most intense fury, until she fina lly _ disappeared under the waters about mid-day. We perceive with plessure that several of our countrymen were enabled to render servios to the American captain. The consul of the United States and Captain Thornton, of the Osprey, pablish a card conveying their thanks to, and ex pressing the high sense they entertained of the gene rous and gallant conduct of Captain Reeks, of the Royal Mail Company's Steamer Derwent, of Captain Ellerby, of the Royal Mail Company's steamer Prince, and of Captain Fraud, of the English schooner Spirit, on the occasion. They also particularly thanked Mr. Topper, chief officer of the Prince, wbo was in the first boat alongside; Mr. Spence, and the boatswain of the Royal Mail Company's yard, .who was in the second boot aloes side; Mr. Paul, second officer of the Prince ; Mr. Baker, second officer, Mr. Tipper, second engi neer, and Messrs. Young and Bird, of the Derwent. The fire was mused by the ignition of some whiskey drawn off furtively by a fireman of the ship from a cask which was lashed under the companion staircase leading from the forward saloon to the deck. This man, and it is believed one or more concerned with him, took down the lamp which was hung in the saloon, and placed it on the floor to light them whilst engaged in the broaching of the whiskey cask; a small portion of the spirit fell on the floor, and was ignited; and in attempting to put out the flame, the quart pot into which the whiskey was running fell upon the floor, and the flames spread immediately throughout the saloon. From this small beginning the ship and cargo, worth probably some 30,0004. or 40,0001., were speedily involved in ruin. THE UNITED STATES. On Thursday, Much 2, in the United States District Court at New York, Mr. McKeon, the United States District Attorney, addressed the court as follows : About a year luck, and toms time subsequently, o ,m -plaints wen made against persons for enlistog troops to this district for the service of the British governmeat, sad, it being an (Nem of gnat solicitude to preserve the neutral ity of the United (hates with nations with which wears at peace, these complaints were sent before the grandly', indictments were found, and us of the parties wee tried sad 'deviated, sad is now suffering the censequesee of hie Grime by imprisonment. After that conviction I addressed a litter to the Attamsey Gezira of t►e Uaited Steels, to which I received the following reply : _ " Attamey-Ointeral's-Alce, Oct. 20, 1866. " hat, the honour to ackeowledg• the »caption of your two - commanitotteas of the 16th and 17th instant, in which you Wee. me of the conviition of Joseph Wagner, aimed of tb• eau, of being engaged unlawfully in »- mut -Wne Moot • within ihe United States for the service of Gnat Britain, and requating iestrustiors u to other in. dietawate of t h e same clue still ',meting in your district. Tbsee proseentiou were instituted primarily fir the pu pilage arresting the tosatinued pertetratioa of acts drir,ga treym the sovereignty and pablie bumf, and oontraty to the neutral policy, of the United Susie*. The punishment of wine in thew, u ia all other ewes of intrinaerneot of 11101810 providwas, of whatever nature, was en object ello, but in thus particular emus • secondary one ; dee the individual ssisdesaseaor of the parties impli- Wed, whelk. r they be citmeas or foreigners, and whether prewar or racial persona, is bet • minor incident of the Itsidnuldindlinity and wreog »dieted on this government ,4 do helleasetritromeet in whom behalf end for whore boindlifillirpneenms to violate »shwa of the United States. hA ibmirea.fot tad what bee thee tar been dome by you, elitjteNefawer solenerta gently, Indio» to vindicia. public peals whin year diarist, you will mike such dirp ethos Sh A prahiiiteretiwa seems boot of the remaiolog complaista y pose= who do not hold an official relation to ri stm riebliewroomeat As to guilty perroos of the latter deecrpt eon, whether yet nadir prorecutio• or not, their refalual seta stead on a affluent ground, and additional in- Unotietten gaoling thiw wi ll be forwarded to you is due eine. Sash person are not only indictable, M common with all others who violate the law of the laud, but they ere also 'kitten of the lateraati?oal kw, sad subject to spatial eastadoratieo by dm Maud States, unless diosirowod wed paaistiod by tag, own goyeromeot.--I haw the baeear to be_your obedient meant, " C. Cyconto. Hoe. Jelin McKee,. United &stem District Attorsey, New York." Mr. Mel Lean said, after reading the letter. I bus delayed mad Dow to net ion these segge.tioes; but it is ao longer a question between the resentment and the Individuals who wets indived, but hoe beams a matter between the 'Gymnasia& of the United States and that of Cheat Britain, and upon which I trust Vie verdict of the civilised world will ►e to homer of this noioa. I cow alb permission of the coon to enter a *one prompt upon the iedictmect, which I stall baud to the clerk, and is ahteh I do met fueled. say palm holding as attend relative to the British govenneeat - - The court gave the permission asked for. The steamship Illinois ball arrived from Aspin wall, with the setni.mouthly Californian mails, and shoat one million and a qsartev in treasure. The Indians were eontinsing their depredations in the northern section of the state. On Rogue river about 300 of them had made an attack upon the settlers sad some United States soldiers, who defended them. selves as best they could ; but after fighting nearly whole day they were overpowered, and an indiscri minate slaughter of men, women, and children took place. Rumours of a new filibustering expedition, to be directed against the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, were afloat in San Francisco. liuriug the fortnight an active business has been done in staple articles, but money continues tight, which caused some consi derable running about among the merchants on steamer day. The news from Nicaragua is of a highly interest ing character. Costa Rica had declared war. General Walker, io reply, had issued a proclamation stating that the democratic party of Nicaragua had invited him to espouse their cause, and that he had endea voured to carry out the principles of the revolution of 1864; that the legitimist party had resisted all efforts at conciliation, and there was no resource but war. General Walker, with 600 men, had crossed the lake to Virgin Bay. The government of Costa Rica had issued an address calling on the people of Central America to destroy the North American in. eiders. The New ork Daily Times considers Walker's position to be one of much peril, from which, however, he will probably recover himself. THE BALTIC. (rum ova OWN KIEL, helm 9. The Sampson, Captain Hand, left this bay early in the morning for Sheerness, and she may, perhaps, reach her destination before you receive this. As she is a fut vessel, with great steam power, there would be no doubt of this, it it were not that hew contract boilers, recently put on board, prove to be faulty, so that she cannot use all her power. The unsound portion of the boiler was filled op with red lead . ; and the discovery was fortunately made in time to prevent any accident, although the steamer has since in con sequence been less efficient than she should have been, and if the war had continued, it would have been necessary to have sent her home for repairs before she had done any service. With costly dock yard establishments there is no excuse for such oversights. FINLAND. A correspondence in the Pays elates that the Czar lately declared publicly to the president of the Senate of Relsinglore that it was his intention shortly to convoke the General Assembly of Finland. In the treaty signed at Frederiksham in 1809, by which Finland was definitively annexed to Russia, it was declared that this province should continue to enjoy its old conatitution,and that a general usembly should be held, as of right, every five years, for the purpose of considering such questions of general in• taut as it might be tor the benefit of the country to bring under the notice of the Emperor. Notwith standing the positive stipulations of this convention, the national assembly has never been convoked but once, and that wee so long ago as 1811. The Fin nish provinces have been in many respects.better treated than other parts of the Russian empire, but the Czars have hitherto steadily refused to convoke the national assembly. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. This morning were tensed accounts of "The In. tome and Bapenditami of the British Museum, fir the financial year ended Marsh 31, 1866 ; of the estimated 'barges and expenses for the year ending March 81, 1867; of the sum neteisary to discharge the same; and of the number of per:ote admitted to visit the Minerals from Citristmaa, 1849, to Consignee, 1865 ; together with a state. meat of the progress made in the arrangement of the eel. lectiono, and an account of objects added to them in the par 1865." _ . The entire receipts for the year 1855-56, amounted to 77,1801. 6s. Id., and the it:gendarme t, 640011. Os. 7d., leaving a balance in hand of 15,1761. 51. 61. The stun re. gaited to defray the salaries and eaponaes of the Mumma for the year ending on the 31st March, 1857, is (Militated at 60,0001. Less persons visited the general collections betimes Christmas, 16.51, sad Christmas, 1855, than on any year gam 1861, and a less number visited the reading-room than CC any year since 1830. Nearly 50,000 Fersons assembled yesterday in Ben. alastost-gardens end the park arjacent, to bear the band of the Boys! Horse Gauls Bin. The music was rot well chosen, and bat indifferently pert, re .c I. The concert ter minated with the French and English national airs pre cisely at six o'clock. V . I. relrrshments in the p tellies won is great rigout, and tbourh rather dear, left no l eams for complaint in respect tt qatlity. Not the km* remarkable inelent of the day's proceedings was the ready obedience paid by the muses to the invitation loon the Board of Works, which was jotted oo all the large tree', to retrain from smoking near the rauaic platform et the refreshment-room. The prelates and clergy of the province of Canter bury will meet to-morrow for the despatch of balms', red it is asFected that the proeeedings will be of more import Amos than on any former cceasion sine. the discussions ili Coavwation hwy. been revived. The Times urgre the noble lord the member for the City of London to acoept a peerage. '. That assembly is which Lord Chathara and Fir limbed Walpole sought repose at the end of their stormy political career might surely perform therein* goad OffiCS fry Lord Rita Rune% and in bin persona tit a ever memorable in the political history of England might be revived." - - A Rowan journal beariog an official character, the Cieslto Calk)Act', enlarging upon the friendly dispositios which the Emperor klezander 11. manifests in favour of the Roman Catholics of his empire, cmconnces that M. do Kieftleff, Remises mluieter at Rome, will be charged to negotiate a new concordat upon more liberal bates tam' that which was granted some few years ■go. EXTENSIVE STRIKE OF COLLIERS.—On Thursday a great among of the a lien incited in what is termedt no Glasgow district, was held at Gnen Colliery. There wane beteree 4.000 end 6,000 corn present. Mr. James Bite was called tei the chair. It a; pars that the meeting ate held in consequence of an intimation from the maven that the wages of the men would be ',dame from do. to 4s per day. Mr. Thomas Cowan m• wed that the men remain out on strike until the Is. pi r day proposed to be taken from them should be restored, which motion was unanimously agreed to—the men declaring their determination nct to cabmit the reduction. At the earns mettirg, Mr. data Mure wen appointed a delepa*e to proceed to London to give evidence in favour of Mr. Ms cktessott's bill for the settlement of mat ters in diepute by arbitratim. Meetings smiler to tbie above hate been held at Ballie•ton sod Coepelball during the w.ek, at which resolutions to resist the reduction went agreed to. In all, there are 14,000 men, we are informed, ow strike en Lanark sad Rentrewshirer. A f. w pits are still copes, in which the masters pay the old wages of 6s. par day —Gamow Daily Mali. flilt LATE Mas. KELLY.—A Dublin paper, nave rating Irani ius facts in the history of Ibis got, runes womasso already mentioned by as, adds the following : —" Mr.. Kelly Gowen oat to enjoy en wealth; she resided in Marion.. square. One day a poor woman with two little diddle* by the hand pulled the bel, and humbly asked the pow , deed end gold-land footman , obia d. rili ili is awan m a i yd s . t o re fl a tsy s t w a .m.n no aths te ss t. there we. no answer. often turned wearily s i t he d d c e e i ll e: daughter of the late Edmund Kelly, who was reagteg • eer reel. f her father's a. ebb. Wont a Moiety wee beret She had been brought up with the fondest parental ears,- she hod been plated at a first-rate hurdler school in Clifton, in Enalana, where to less has 3001. a year ass paid for her. When her lath, r married 1, e undly she wan mooted to en inferior ached at Bath, and kit &Hommel:ow gradually reduced. After many tree and vicissitudes, chiefly ceased by false iufermation is to her fath.t's death, she was at length abandoned, with two children, by a pro afgete villain, who bad married her under the pretence of being her father's agent. Sae tost , ised to eke out a liveli hood far herself and ehildran as • g, , until she again startled a Mr. Mouton. She had beard of her father's death, and of his estraordinary will, and of Miss Thewles's action, and she ease arms as to trtialle, to seed Mrs. Kelly would not help her in some way. Mrs. Kelly had a emit-. dentlal solicitor, named Birch; she celled him her nephew others mid he was a nearer relative still. This Mr. George Birch Sold the applicant that his aunt would do nothing for her, bat that he would do sousethioa ; he made vile pro to het—and worse. lien ho bend, Mr. Mottle. brought en action fir its.aule, and obtained damages 2004 end Sd. eats, spinet Ku Birch." FREEDOM OF INVERNS&S TO GENERAL PATRICK GRANT, C.B.—The new Commander is Chief of the Ma dna army, General Patrick Grant, being at oat to leers this imantry to enter upon hie important tru.t, the mass s e o an f d hi te sh il t c t i as tu t :i imi l of a lLe h rn w sm cte re r eo . b le y e . d to u ni rr a i :k g t a beit roa ' him the freed em of the town. The (lea , rat has resided in that district for alms six months ; he is a native of Btrath alley, and was amain:4d by marriage with the family of the ..e b itte ll f l o i S a m a he t d r eer ili t y p T ti se 3Ne h i r a im ; laand all l th ese l e b d y le h , e a r n ta l t ‘ h i e ei r t el o l a , a rt a i e e werejutt well fitted to call forth this public aeltonsrldlomeat. Teo ceremony took place on Tbaraday.—Bdinbarrgh Courant.