The Express. — London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

.• THE EXPRESS, • -- • -- --- EC OND-HAND PIANOFORTE S. office for an indefinite length of time. Hitherto §siooclung& wax sad WOOD lave a Isar aw O WWwW these drawbacks have been hardly felt. While nd-baad rtsbotortea, by wog wWwwwa waken. bb —.Sly rafted pricen—SlD. Ragembalrest. I there has been no scarcity of labourers, there has also been little competition for an office widish in- volved bard work and no profit. The extempo rised organization has answered well enough to the temporary need. But will it be so, now that the most difficult questions of work and wages, of em i gra tion and change of employment, are gra dually developing themselves out of the one origi nal necessity of finding food and clothing for the starving multitudes I Can the peace of any one of our large towns—perhaps of the whole country —be trusted to the discretion of such committees as we have described, which, however well-mean ing, act under the restraint of no direct reaponsi. bility? Or to look at the matter from the other side, is it fair to expose those who have already worn the harness for more than a year, to the labour and unpopularity which must attend the just a.lminis tration of relief to those in the very midst of whom they live, and with whom they continue to be connected by the closest ties 'I England has reason to be proud of the lavish expenditure of money and effort which the cotton famine has called forth ; but there is an epoch in the history of every such calamity, when it becomes apparent that the irregular exertions of voluntary benevolence need to be replaced by uniformity of organization and the exact distribution of respon sibility. Before Christmas that epoch will have arrived in the case of the Lancashire distress. In the meantime the great diversity of opinions as to the most effectual form of relief, the pecu liarities of Lancashire life, so bard for strangers to enter into, and the fact that the funds in the hands of the committees are sufficient for the needs of months to come—are all so many reasons in favour of Mr. Pcrrrza's proposed commission of inquiry. The collection of evidence, the compari son of opinions, may be expected, especially if the scene of operations be transferred to Lanca shire itself, to lead thoughtful men who spend their whole time and effort upon this single duty, to a far more practical measure than we could expect from a cabinet or the head of a depart ment, perhaps imperfectly informed, and certainly distracted by other labours. The great diversity of opinions which will probably find expression in the House of Commons to-night will sufficiently justify the appointment of a tribunal, whose chief work will be to collect, to sift, and to combine the suggestions of those who are fully acquainted with the evil, and have some practical knowledgeof such remedies as have been already tried. The Session is not yet so far advanced but that a vigorous commission may report in ample time for careful and dispernionate legislation. WoOCKET BAROMETER.—NEGRETTI and BRAII trustworthy and reliable Instnnnont, Use die of a watch.—Part csiars bbd], Balt= 69, Cornh111: 121, Itegest-atomst and Paace, THE EXHIBITION OP ALUMINIUM AND ALUMINIUM BRONZE. 2000 SPECIMENS, illustrating the Appli cation 'Ornamental sal Useful) of these fate- Metals, are NOW ON VIEW at I IrAIAN BROTHERS NEWSOMB, REGINTZTEENT. AW N. E VERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. 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Ha To-Roasow—Maralag. 911. ..Aft wards. 10A &a LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 27. MOST people who have given any attention to the matter will be willing to admit that the condi tion of Lancashire, which is to be brought before the House of Commons to-night, has now be come • fit subject for Parliamentary inquiry, if not for legislative action. Whether Mr. BUSIIILD REMAND is the fit person to lead the deliberations of the House of Commons is quite another question. He possesses the quali fication of ancient prejudices against manufac tures, which upon any lips but his own would be toe -virulent for expression, and he has paid a brief visit to the North in order that he may speak with the authority of an eye-vitamin. If there has been a general though tacit concur rence of public opinion, that Government owed something more to the suspended industry of a l great province than • Rate-in-Aid Act hurriedly ponied in the last weeks of an expiring Session, public opinion—looking to the balances in hand— .. _ _ THERE has rarely been a time when our finan cial prospects have been easier than they are now. Events seem to conspire to add to the abundance of money in the market. That the supply is in excess of the demand is obvious to every one. A scarcity of mercantile bills has been experienced, owing partly to an &anal deficiency in the amount in existence, consequent upon the dulness of trade, and partly to the circumstance that a portion of the existing bills are held back from discount through the belief that still lower rates will soon prevail. The unquiet state of foreign politics, and a vague idea that fresh troubles are brewing either in the West or on the Continent, have likewise, no doubt, some influence just DOW in repressing enterprise. There seems, therefore, little prospect that the amount of bills and other mercantile securities will increase so far as to overtake the supply of floating money, and to place the advantage once more on the aide of the lender. On the contrary it is now the borrower who dictates the terms. The effect is seen in the downward movement in the rates of money which has been going on for some weeks past, and which the Bank of England seemed dis posed a few days ago to attempt—though vainly— to arrest. The Bank have within the last week acquiesced in the necessity of following the de clining market, and have put their rate down to 3} per cent., with little prospect, judging from present indications, of attract ing any speedy increase of business at the re duction. The terms in the general market con tinue to range below theirs ; and, should the Bank, in a little time, descend to 3 per cent., a similar feature would, doubtless, still be pre sented. has also been content that Government should choose its own method and time of action. The terms in which Mr. FMAND'S motion is made are vague. It is affirmed to be "the dutyof the Govern " meat to take into consideration, without delay, " what measures may be neceriary to relieve the " distress which prevails in the cotton manufao. " taring districts ; so that the people may " no longer continue unemployed,"The first clause seems to imply that, in the opinion of the mover, the Government are already guilty of some dere liction of duty ; the second, if it have any mean ing at all, means that the Home-office or the Poor law Board is to take upon itself the task of finding work and wages for the unemployed operatives. Under these circumstances we may congratulate ourselves that • member who is thoroughly con versant with the whole subject, has given notice of an amendment on Mr. Fu•asau's motion, asking for a Royal Commission of Inquiry. There will be the less danger that • discussion, which in volves the actual subsistence of • million of our hard-working countrymen, as well as the interests of a trade which contributes more than any other to the national wealth, should be degraded into an opportunity for the display of class animosities, which both justice and pity now enjoin upon men to forget. Public opinion evidently points to the proba bility of a still lower value of money being ere long established, and is doubtless guided to this conclusion by the continued favourable appear ance of the exchanges and by the steady influx of gold. The stock of bullion in the Bank of Eng land has not run up quite so rapidly as some per sons had expected, considering the magnitude of the amounts of newly imported gold known to have been purchased by that establishment from day to day, but this merely proves that the heavy government and dividend payments mado at the end of March and during the present month have caused a large amount of coin to be diffused through the country. This coin will flow back to the Bank later in the quarter, increasing its store, quite apart from foreign imports. The aspect of financial affairs in America renders it probable that large remittances of gold will continue to be made to this country ; the Australian produce comes for ward steadily, and some considerable amount is now becoming due ; and the long frozen up stock of Mexican silver is beginning to thaw. The accumulation of silver in that country must be something enormous, and very large amounts will probably be sent over if the roads are made safe Among those who are practically engaged in grappling with social difficulties in Lancashire, the opinion is rapidly gaining ground that Government interference in some shape or other will soon be a necessity. If we could be sure that the worst of the calamity would be passed before winter, things might safely be left as they are. The organization of the Relief Committees never was so complete as it now is • the balances at their disposal are suffi ciently large. But there is no guarantee that the mischief, in alternately increasing and lessening proportions, may not last for years; while it is evi dently inexpedient that a system of relief confess edly devised to meet a temporary exigency, should be applied to a chronic evil. Whatever shape the national proffer of help to the distressed districts may at last sairume—a grant from the Consolidated Fund, loans to oorporationa and similar bodies for public works—increased facili- ties of borrowing to Boards of Guardisos—the by the French. For all practical purposes this silvers u useful to our money market as an equivalent value in gold would be ; for, if silver be wanted for India and China, a supply from Mexico prevents the necessity of our send ing gold to the Continent to buy it ; while if a pause in the Eastern demand for silver occurs, the Mexican treasure is sold by us to the Continent, of course prepay ti mately strengthening the exchanges. Without attaching too much importance at the moment to the contributions of our two newest gold-pro ducing colonies—New Zealand and British Columbia, where, nevertheless, many thousands of hands are now engaged in adding to the world's stock of the metal—the indications of a continued influx of specie and bullion are too plain to pre clude any other than a hopeful view of our mone tary prospects. Apart, however, from the condition of the foreign exchanges and of the bullion current, the money market is being favourably influenced by the satisfactory state of the finances of both the British and the Indian Governments. It is no small relief to the taxpayer when the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is enabled to make an absolute reduction of taxation to the extent of more than three millions and a quarter. The money market is likewise relieved, since there is in a proportionate degree a relaxation of that process of alternate contraction and expansion which is always going on as the Government balance rises or falls, the rise being gradual, and spread over many weeks, while the fall takes place suddenly, at main point of the difficulty will be missed if pecu niary aid be not accompanied by new methods of administration and an increased distinctness of responsibility. In so saying we are far from wishing to cast any reproach upon the existing local committees of relief. We believe that, u a whole, they have performed their work with rare self-devotion, with great kindness, and with ade quate good judgment. We are so far from thinking that they are now deteriorating in quality, or that the management of them is falling into compare tively idle but unskilful hands, as to be persuaded that they never were more efficient than at the present moment. Impulsive philanthropista have long ago abandoned • work which is cumbered with daily perplexities and bears fruit of much personal unpopularity, to those who feel their own Stamm for the task, and bring a conscientious 'new to its performance. But it mint be remembered that in the majority of cane, relief boards, if not formally, were practically self elected ; that their constitution represents, not their townsmen's deliberate choice, but the eager ness of their own goodwill ; and that what little control over them may be said to exist is vested in the two great oommittees of distribution, which act independently of each other, and, at the best, with an imperfect local knowledge. if the policy of • board of guardians is displeasing to the rate payers, every parish has its remedy on the next day of election ; while a relief board is really responsible only to itself, and holds its abated periods. To correct the otherwise perni cious effects of these movements is the express object of many of the arrangements now in force at the Bank of England, and no doubt they are largely successful, but it stands to reason that as the total financial transactions of Government are brought within a more moderate compass, the remedy will be more complete. Int Court. WINDSOR CASTLE % Aran. 25. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Py res Louis of 8e..., and Prisms Helena, drove out this morning, attended by Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, Equerry in W►iting. To-day in the anniversary of the birthday of the Princess Louis at Hesse. Mr. Theodor Jensien has bad the honour of sittings for portraits of the Prince and Princes, of Wahl. SUNDAY. The Princess Lonie of Hesse attended at theprivst• chapel this morning, when the eerwiceappointed for thechurching of women was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor. _ The Queen and Prime Louis of Reese were also present The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Louis of Hesse, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Prince Alexander and Prince Henry of House, the Wire and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the domestic household attended divine ser vice in the private chapel this morning. The Hon.'and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor preached the sermon. Their Grand Ducal Highnesses eel Prince Alexander and Prince Henry of Hone, attended by Baron de Rebmann, arrived at the Cantle last evening. The Prince of Wales, Prime Alfred, and Prince Louis of Henke met the Princes of Hesse at the Windsor station. Prince Arthur attended by Major Elphinstone arrived at the Cattle. The Duchene of Welliogtoo, the Right HOD. Sir Charles Wood, and the B.ev. Mr. Bender also arrived at the Castle. The Queen will hold a Privy Council tomorrow (Tuesday] at Windsor Castle. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir ',Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right lion. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were mut on Saturday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Cateds, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the looks lehusds. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. Lieutenant-General Grey bee received the com mands of the Queen to acknowledge the receipt of the report of the coron.ittee appointed to give her Majesty their assiatancs in the conndenttion of questions relative to the National Memorial to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty hu directed that her best thanks may be Tethered to the commit' ter the valuable services which . . they have renders • and angadvice ear 41 they have sub mitted toPorrildsjestv. The Queen very fully participake in the regret expreseed 'by the committee that it has been found neeemary to abut. doe, for the preseet, the idea of the centre] ball, which, combined with a personal memorial, would have appeared to mite the tribute of national gratitude with the objects in which the great and good Prince took the strongest inte rest, and would also have for ever associated with the memo rial the reoullections of the Exhibition of 1851. This regret is, however, modified by the expectation that when ever the oommisimers of 1861 may be in a position to appropriate the vacant space north of the conservatory in the Royal Horticultural Gardens to the purposes for which the estate was purchased a hall may still form part of the banding, to be erected there. The personal memorial to the Prince was always the first object, and the Queen never contemplated the combination of the central hall until that was adequately provided for. Under (these circumstances the Queen is happy to see that the committee have recommended for selection toe design of Mr. Scott, to which her Majesty had already given the preference among the many beautiful deriets submitted for ha jodpuot. Windsor Castle, April 22, 1863. Sir Charles The ladies of Coventry are about to present to her Royal Highness the Princess d Wales a hoodoos» watch of Coventry manufacture; The Countess Cowper has issued cards for even ing parties on Wednesday next, and on the 6th of May, at her house in Bt. Jainee's.equare. The Right Ron. B. Dianeli and Mrs. Disraeli satertaised at dinner ea Saturday evening at their miaow" Grosvenor-gate, the Marchioness of Ely, the Marquis and Marehionem of Normaoby, the Saxon Minister, the Earl of Bt. Germans, the Countess of Malmeebary, the Earl Cow per, Lord and Lady Joba Manus's, Vimoont and Viscountess ktoystoo, Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrisoo, Mr. Lygoo, and Sir Anthony and Lady De Rothschild. Mr. Chichester Forteecne, M.P., having quite recovered from his moot attack of mamba, will resume his official duties at the Colonial-efface to-day, the hon. gen- Memel and the Counter Waldegrave heviog returned from Irsiand; • Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received the Marquis and Marchioness of Chinricarde„ the Earl of Dunmore, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbary end Lady Victoria Ashley, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Countess Cowper and Ladies Florenoe and Ada. Cowper, Viscount Chelsea, Lard &delay, Lord Hubert De Burgh Canning, the Right Hos. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. F. Oliphant, ka., at dinner on Saturday evening, at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. Later in the evening Lady Palmerston had an assembly, which was both fashionably sad numerously attended. At the evening meeting of the members of the Royal Institution on Friday, when the Duke of Northum berland was in the chair, a lecture was delivered by Mr. A. B. Herschel "Oa luminous meteen."_ _ . - - - - Mr. Edward J. Cooper, of ?derby') Castle, misty Sligo, did os Friday at the age of sixty-four. He bad represented the county of Sligo for many yeen in par liament, and won resptet by the manner in which he dig &stied all the duties incident to his position as a large landed proprietor. He devoted much of his time of late to mieetifie pursuits. The bout of the Scotch journals that Edinburgh got precedence, next to the Loudon corporation, in pretest- ing the eddreries to the Prince of Wales on Wednesday, and that Dublin was put bank to the third rank, as the result of a decision by Garter Kitigat-Arma, Is exciting strong feeling in Dublin. It appears that the Scotch made strenuous efforts to secure this point. It I. mid, also, that the Lord Provost brought up his state crash to London, and that the Edinburgh civic proemial cooeisted of seven ar sine., while the smallneas of the Dublin deputation was the subject of universal comment. Mr. Alfred Smee finds the French system of pisciculture " absolutely perfect." The pl►n consists in plating the ova on a gridiron of glass, where they remain with a jet of water passing over thou till the young fish are hatched. "Any number of lab may be hatched at a oast and trouble almost nominal, far I do sot think that I loss 5 per cent. this year of good eggs subjected to the process. Much, however, has still to be learnt with respect to the treatment of the young fry, for it is still a debateable nose tiou whether we should place them in small streams full of weeds and aniusJculie, their natural food, or cram them, a. the French recommend, with the fish of frogs or powdered bullock's liver. I adopt the former plan, but am not so roeldeet as to its superiority as to resider it the sole good treeteteet of these delicate jetsam." THE LADIEW POLISH RELIEF FuND. —We learn with much gratification that the efforts of the Ladies, Polish Relief Fund bare been so far succestful that a sum of 1001. has been seat to Cracow for the relief of the wounded patriots. The Polish Ladies' Committee, in thank fog the dunces for this welcome aid, slate that they are greatly in want of surgical instruments and that any further reenttasote which may be made will be received with gratitude. Subscriptions to the Wits' Polish Relief Fund should be sect to Miss Lucy Ell* 6, Lancaster-plies, Megent's-park, S.W. MONDAY EVENING, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. On oar front page will be found full particulars, from eye-witneeeea, of the attack on the forth of Charleston, together with the latest New York telegrams. DIPLOMATIC ACTION IN POLAND. The Indivendance Beige of yesterday evening says : A despatch which we have reoeived from Munich inform us that all the French diplomatic agents in Germany, in cluding the ambassador of France at Berlin, have been charged to seek from the governments to which they are accredited their adhesion to the despatch addrened by M. Dronyn de Lbuys to St. Petersburg on the subject of Poland. Other information, which we have reason to believe perfectly correct, leads us to think that a similar invitation has been sent by France to all the other states of Europe, including even Belgium, which, how. ever, its neutrality, guaranteed by the great powers, abso lutely prohibits from intervening in an affair of this nature, and especially from taking part in a combined action with other states. The Inddpendance further observes that it will be exceedingly inconvenient to many powers to give a reply to France, and it is probable that several of the answers will be of a very evasive character. FRANCZ. It is rumoured that the Emperor Napoleon will shortly address an electoral manifesto to the French people, and that this document will be published in the Moniker a few days before the elections. The Prince and Princess Napoleon left Paris on Saturday evening, by the Lyons Railway, on their route to Florence. AUSTRIA. The provincial diet of the Tyrol, it will be re membered, passed some resolutions in February last of a retrograde character, directed against the residence in the Tyrol of protestanbi. We now learn that the Pope has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Brixen, who was the author of these propositions, testifying his "profound joy" at the resolutions of the diet. The pontifical letter also expresses the hope that the Emperor will comply with the wishes of the Tyrolese assembly. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oul owl ow PARIB, SUNDAY EVCKEFG. In the Corps Legialatif yesterday, on the usual motion to confirm the minutes of the last meeting, K A. Chevalier, the present political director of the Pays, complained that M. K 011ivier had made use of the following expression :—" We all know that this journal is in the hands of the Minister of the Interior, and that he being lately dissatisfied with one of his directors turned him out, and put • more docile man in his place." He (M. A. Che valier) wanted to ask K 011ivier what he meant by the word " docile." If he understood it as meaning onlydevotedness, then he (M. Chevalier) was proud of the appellation, for he was as completely de voted to the government which he served as K 011ivier could be to his party ; but if any reflection upon his independence was intended, then he must meet the hon. member by • fiat contradiction. M. 011ivier explained that in using the word "docile" he by no means intended to imply that K A. Che valier's devotedness was venal ; all he meant was that lie was imbued with a devotedness of a kind "more easily convinced" than was that of his pre decessor, who bad been removed for not readily changing his opinions. This Pickwickian expla nation appeared to be perfectly satisfactory to the editor of the Pays, as he made no furtheroommeut. On the vote for the Ministry of Marine and the Colonies, a debate took place on the naval esti mates, in the course of which several patriotic members expressed an opinion that the govern ment was not spending money enough to keep pace with England in transforming the navy according to modern requirements. The Count de la Tour complained that an annual sum of 17 millions, which had been voted in 1857 for the express pur pose of gradually augmenting and improving the materiel of the navy, and which sum he had considered inviolable, was cut down this year by 3 millions. He cited various figures to show that the progress of France within the last three years was relatively less than that of England; and this fact he attributed in l oome mesaure to the wear and tear which French ships had suffered on various distant expeditions. Eng land had, including her reserve, as many as 300,000 sailors ready for service, whereas France, at the ut most, had not more than 80,000• Although there had recently been an addition of 230 officers to the French navy—an addition of which he heartily approved—they had still but a total of 1,900 offi cers against 6,000 in the English service. He thought the disproportion much too great. To all this General Allard, the government commissioner, replied that he was in principle much inclined to agree with the Count de la Tour. The transforma tion of the navy was, however, going on regularly. The 17 millions a year had hitherto been duly applied for that purpose ; and the reduction alluded to (2,500,000 fr. and not 3,000,000 fr .) was only to take place in 1864. Of this reduction, 500,000 fr. was applicable to the ports, so that there would in reality be only 2,000,000 fr. less for ship-building. He joined in regretting that reduction ; but it was a "budgetary nemesity" which the government could not help. As to the ooast defences, he thought them in a very satisfactory state. A decree of the 17th of August, 1859, had appropriated a sum of 23,500,000 fr. to build 344 batteries and 27 forte, which a commission had declared urgent. Well, they had already spent 13,500,0001 r. of that money, and had entirely finished 295 batteries and 18 fort& The others were in a more or lees advanced state and would all be terminated within a few years. After speeches from two or three other members tending to increased expenditure in the navy department, and further apologies for the budget, as framed by General Allard and M. Burson, the reporter, the vote passed. The Patric throws out a hint that the elections, which it has long been taken for granted were fixed for the middle of June, may possibly be postponed to the end of the year, i.e., to the latest possible period allowed by law. The disposition to put off the evil day, which will see the opposition of " five" succeeded by one of fifteen or twenty, has been manifested so often that it would not be surprising if the news of the Petrie should turn out to be true. But such faint-hearted policy, betraying et want of confidence in the country, would be very shortsighted. The Pays, conducted, as the debates in the chain ber show, by the " devoted" K Aug. Chevalier, is very angry with the Italian government for not having at once and unconditionally committed itself to the precise course dictated by France with regard to the Polish question. According to the Opinions of Turin, the answer of Victor Emmanuel's mi nistry reserves " that liberty of action required by our very peculiar political situation." Thereupon the Pays exclaims, " How un grateful to the Sovereign who gained Magenta APRIL 27, 1863. and Solferino for them ;" and it goes on to men tion, as an "unfortunate coincidence," that another Italian journal, which reported the false news of the French having been beaten before Puebla, ap pended the reflection—" Has the hour of justice at length struck r This attempt to establish a soli darity to the disparagement of the Italian govern ment between two incidents having no connexion with each other, argues a disposition to pick a quarrel. The Cuss states that hL Roland, a writer in the Progras of Lyons, and another Frenchman were arrested at Cracow on April 21 by the Austrian authorities. Their books and papers were seized, and it is thought they will be expelled the country. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.-SIR GEORGE THE ACTON MURDER.-EIECUTIOS. (THIS DAY) The culprit, Joseph Brookes, who was convicte4 at the last seesions of the Central Criminal Court of murder of a police-mutable by shooting him with a g s; was executed this morning in front of the gaol of Henan . The offense for which this wretched man forfeited life wan, as our readers will remember, of a very aggins,g 4 character. Although the fact, according to the rules evidenee, could not positively be brought to the knowled o of the jury who tried the prisoner, there was Do dcr.t; that the only motive for the commission of the crime v u that the unfortunate constable, acting in the pro )v discharge of his duty, had detected the prisoner in the , of committing some petty felony, and that, having smooth ( in getting away at the time, the prisoner deliberately 04 . wired the project to murder the constable in order to p u t a stop to any further proceedinp. lie carried this co a t in the most cruel manner by going to the house where tee unfortunate man was living, and baring expressed a wish is see him, fired a gun at him and blew his head almost 1 0 atoms. Although the evidence was most conclusive against is s prisoner it appears that be for a long tints per s i as i in denying his guilt, and he endeavoured to th is , the blame upon his brother, who, it will be noon. bend, was tried with him and acquitted. He, kowtow s made so many false statements in reference W r y affair, and many of which he himself admitted to be is , after having made them, that very little reliance was pl assi g upon what be did say, but it is satisfactory to be enabled to state that almost at the last moment ;he culprit admitted that his was the hand that fired th e fatal shot, and be entirely exonerated his brother free the crime. The culprit was visited on Friday by ki s mother and one of his 'listen, but it appears that even on this trying occasion be persisted in declaring his is so . mace ; and although he did not appear to dewy that i s , knew what was done, be seemed evidently to be under ts s impression that if he could induce the authorities to believe that he was not the man who actually fired the shot, his Lie would be spared. With this view he prepared • stateraeut which was transmitted to the Home Secretary, in which he endeavoured to establish the fact mentioned, but the evi. dance so completely contradicted the suggestions male by the prisoner, that an answer was 'returned almost irons; diately to the effect that Sir G. Grey could not find an, circumstance.' is the cam that would justify him iii tering with the execution of the sentence. Until within • day or two of the time fixed for his exe cution, the culpri t ap peared to entertain some hope th at lu life would be s pared, but as the fatal moment approsebel more closely this hope forsook him. His conduct and de meanour became macesubdued, and he appeared template attention to the exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordi nary of the prison, who has been unremitting in his mortice to bring him to a proper setae of his °antitheft. Mr. Dan was with the culprit soon after six o'clock this manias and he continued with him until the arrival of Kr. ALM man and Sheriff Lawrence, and Mr. Sheriff Jones, wk were accomppaanied by Messrs. Mackrell and Faner, under ehevifs, The prisoner was brought from the col where he had been confined to the room appropriated a the proem' of preparing criminals for execution ; is walked with a firm step and did not exhibit the slights of trepidation. After he had been Maio* 1177 r::: the governor of Newscast, asked the culprit eke titer he had any thing he wished to say to the auntie, sit be replied in a sullen tone, " No, I have nothing is say." He was then asked whether he would like to e doers for • short time, and be inquired bow long he shoag have to wait ; and on being told that he would be icier:el when the hour had arrived for carrying out the intim be sat down upon the bench that was in the all, and sp in deep thought. At eight o'clock the prise:obi to toll, and the usual procession was formai At this terrible moment the firmness of the culprit did se appear to give way in the slightest degree, and it son not until the rope had been placed round his neck, al the cap drawn over his eyes, that he awoke to • sem d his dreadful position. He then made a sign to the Re. Mr. Davis to approach closer to him, and when that gentleman had done so, the prisoner said, in so emplooc manner, "I am guilty. It was me who fired the mi." An instant afterwards the drop fell, and the calprtt, after giving a few convulsive struggles, ceased to exist The prisoner was a very fine muscular moo, aid at the time be met big untimely end ins in his terentyaigth year. He had *creed in no army is the Crimen, and also in Chiba, and had rectal good conduct medals as • soldier. He last served in the Itotal Artillery. bat bad deserted from that regimeest and a portion of his regimentals was found in kin pones sion when be was taken into custody upon the chugs of murdering the policeman. There we a very large crowd assembled to witness the execution, sad smog the persons assembled were • cossiderable number of the metropolitan police. It was remarked as a satistacto circumstance that there were very few women among crowd. The body was cot down after hangiog au boor. it will be buried this afternooe within the prison, actor to the terms of the senteem Yesterday afternoon the Bishop of LOOllO preached in the parish church of St. James's. Piccadilly, • aid of the finds of the Diorama Church Building Son* He selected far his text the 4th chapter of the Boot c Jonah, 11th verse. The Halifax election will take place in the Pie* hall at 11 o'clock to morrow morning. Up to the pram time Mr. Stansfeld has been threatened with no eimesitia nor is any expected. PREVALENCI OF SMALL-rOY.—At a specc• meeting, bold at Whitehall. of Saturday evening. of n Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Beall Dr. Thomson. of Marylebone. in the chair, it is unanimously resolved—" That in consequence of the MUD of mortality from small-pox, the associatioc der it their duty to the attention of guardians of the pe sad other looal authorities of the metropolis thug The association, recognising the total neglect or met dent performance of vaccination as the great muse the mortality in question, they yet consider it not n less apparent that the prolonged residence of We* persons in rooms occupied by others, the exp.:nom: such persons in the streets, in public conveyances, oc: the waiting-rooms of hospitals, and the absence i adequate meths of isolation, have beee the immedis agents in bringing about the recent rapid diffusion of se pox to a degree unexampled in the epidemic of I,Y. Persons were deity applyiog to the mend hoepitah: eoceequence of refusal at the Small m x Hospital : nil en applications were necemacily rejected, the sufferers rent is to their homes, and thus became the means of away= the evil. It was therefore necessary that, dining the e demic, temporary buildings should be erected or opeeer such situations as were beet suited for the purpose no double ground of distance from inhabited houses sod fc lit of approach. Also that public attention be camil the importance of vaminstion and the law thereon a powering guardians to take proceedings under the Vacs, lion Amendment Act of lsfl, in case of neglect of nee nation." " AROUR " AT NEWIIARKM. —Anil now with r pmd to me visit to the Heath on the Two Thousand Pm I had seen the Two Thousand, and after the racing was me. was walking into the town on the Heath, instead of to road on account of the dolt. when Lord Coventry m ese sal told , me I could not be allowed to remain, end added. it no t his unpleasant duty to communicate the fact to me• plied it was equally unpleasant for myself, and, had I no rutted my own feelings, I should not have been there. ba I was acting under instructions to try • public right : as I concluded my letter was not deemed satid the beat plan was to leave the matter in the bands of respective solicitors. We then parted, and on Thunder repeated my visit to the Heath, in order to meet the toe Club witness to identify me, sod spare hoed Corson: , Pain of appearing as he informer. Tdo mare thee the think your readers w ill agree with me o iniposoiblet as the action is commenced it would not he decorous in to appeal further to the public, as, within a mouth or ' weeks at !start, we shall know whether the Jocks., - have the power to pick and choose the company oe - Heath at Newmarket ; and to say " Nothing shall be sc i ' l of us that we do Dot saxctioo." The information oil!' cameos and well worth the cost of the experiment : whatever the result may he, I think I can claim foe no' the credit of having used every means of ec o nctliotioo:: to have borne myself with temper. — Letter of " Arge. the Past. CLastwaL Ria ate. —A singular collision lietwe the clergy of the rival churches occurred west of the DOD a few days ago. A Mr. Smith. stationmaster. consumption, having been attended during his Meer the Rev. Mr. Fleming. the rector of the parish. Western Star states that the deceased was born a teatime, and never expressed any desire to religion. His wife was a Boman catholic, add she the same testimony. It appears that when her b band had become insensible he was visited he parish priest, who first baptised and then anointed bt Having thus transferred him to his own church, be premed his intention of attending hie funeral led real' the Roman catholic burial service over his remise. Fleming expressed his firm determination to patrol and read the aervios of the protestant church. Th f t d was attended by 22 ears mod a small conm rs foot. On its arrival in the streets the oari.b T r. stepped forth, robed in his vestments , and vin.moM reciting the service for the dead. 1 m mel , os after the rector took up his pen in the duet, robed in his surplices. Thus sub Perfrr'' the rewire re the procession moved slowly on. The ref behaved very well under such exciting circumstance, .1 Fleming was rudely jostled once or twice, and it:lth" n et: sprinkling of holy water the rev. gentleman g nt m om ti• his share of it, bat he remained last upon the Cee`"e" l , it is stated that though the priest onlered his rel. put on their hate when he retired, many of them I.• 1110 uncovered tin the protestant service was over. The! sensible remark made there that day was by an old won' who, u the funeral passed, exclaimed. " Did I ever : 0 1' like!—two clergy at one grave, and only me heaven r wars BILL. This morning the bill introduced in the House of Commons by Sit George Grey for the amalgamation of the City of London Polio* with the Metropolitan Police was issued from the parliamentary printing-office. The title of the bill is "The City of London and Metropolitan Police Act, 1863." It is proposed that the bill shall take effect on the let January next. It provides for the establishment of one or more branch station or stations in the city, to be wider the superintendence of • new Assistant Com missioner of Police, to be appointed by her Majeety, the offer of such appointment to be made in the first instance to Captain Hodpoo. The City Police Force are to have the same rank, pay, and superannuation as they an now receiving; while the constables of the Metropolitan Police Force within the City are to have the same powers, duties, ho., as are exercised in the metropolitan districts. The Chamberlain of the City of London is to transfer all the cash vested in his name in coonexion with the police to the receiver for the Metropolitan Police district, and, after the act has come into operation, the expense of main taining the addition to the Metropolitan Police Force is to be defrayed partly out of monies to be provided by parliament, and partly out of the police rate leviable tinder the City Police Act ; the money payable by parliament to bear the same proportion to the money payable out of the police rate as the money hitherto contri buted by the Mayor and commonalty and citizens has borne to the money payable out of the said rate. The Chief Com missioner of the Metropolitan Police is to have power to issue a warrant requiring the Chamberlain of the City of London to pay out of any cub in his hands • sum not ex ceeding the amount of the police rate authorised to be levied by the City Police Act. The warrants of the City justices are to be recognised and executed in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Eases, and Kent, and every warrant issued by any justice in those counties is to be ex ecuted in any part of the City of London. It is stated that the Emperor Napoleon wan present during the proceedings at the election of the 'hooch Academy on Thursday last. The elections are held with closed doors ; it is only the receptions that are public, bat the Sovereign, ea ofScial " protector " of the Academy, has the right to be there if he think proper. A great agricultural exhibition is to take place at Hamburg from the 11th to the 22nd of Jane. It is said that England, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, France, and Belgium will hardly be behind Germany in their contributions, while even the United States have taken so much interest in it that the sum of 10,000 dollars has been granted for the conveyance of articles to be exhibited ; and a further sum of 5,000 dollars to defray the expenses of • special commissioner. The Corrupoudance de Borne has an article entitled " Garibaldi and Palmerston." "The grit of these two men," it says, "is not in our eyes worse company than the second. He is only lees culpable and lees loaded with the horrible crimes for which history and God h►ve terrible Judgments. The Filibuster, with a red shirt, say. that the Pope is the `.nicer' of Italy ; the impenitent Octounarkus Mee oat at table that the Pope is the ' incubus' of Italy. Thus they are both rivetted to the same chair, and serve the same master. This makes us hope for a more complete vongeanes." A Calcutta letter of the 23rd ult. says :—" For years no such great heat has been felt in northern India so early in the year as March. For the past fortnight it has been eight degrees hotter than at the same period last year. For • time it was feared that the crops would suffer, bat in the north-west there have been heavy showers, as Lord Elgin found to his oat, when his city of canvas had to remain pitched till it dried, in the first march from Meerut to Boorkee. But in Bengal the heavens are as brass, and all weather-wise prophets, including the shipping is the port, are prepared for one of those great north-waters which are so grand in the tropics and occur so rarely." For some mouths past large swarms of locusts have done no little injury in Sande and the Punjaub, and the fear is that they may take up their permanent abode in the latter. They cling to the long spikes of the seer* the Shittim tree of Scripture, and they breed, each female laying newly • hundred eggs, which adhere to each other like an ear of corn. The financial commissioner of the Paojaub has accordingly addressed • circular to all the subordinate authorities. All Is the practice in Persia and Turkey, the villagers are to be induced by money and sweet meats to grapple with the scourge by, morning and even ing. forcing the locusts into bags while still drowsy or numbed, and burying them in pita. The Jesuits, who were for so long a period in ob scurity in Frame, unrecognised at the French court, and fearful in any way of making themselves publicly conspi cuous in Paris, appear now to hove emerged from their retirement, and openly show signs of wealthy resources in the erection of new and magnificent buildings. THE BOMBAY AND MBDITZBILANZAN -—— - - The Peninsular end Oriental Company's steam ship Pere, 11, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy partite:of thitherto mails, ; arrived at Southampton on Saturday ermine ; she brings 109 passengers, and has on freight, specie 100/.; pearls I value 94,000 rupees. 10c:saes bloodstones, 47 cases shawls, 1 23 packages elephants' tusks, 7 casks wine, and 330 packages sundries. The American sloop of war. Chippewa, left Al. , geoiras on the 12th for the West. Later intelligence from the Barbary coast reports that fighting was still going on amongst the tribes outside the walls of Dar-el-Baida (Cuss. blanca), but there was reason to suppose that the contest would soon cease. The safety of the Europeans in the town had been placed beyond all danger by the arrival of three ships of war, an English, a Spanish, and • Portuguese steamer, which reseals were anchored off Dar-el-Baida. Soenrrir or PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS, PALL NALL Ea rr.—The private view of the Illy-ninth annual exhibition of this society took place on Saturday, and was attended by a numerous company of the nobility, mem ber. of parlament, and panes@ of art. Amongrt these present were the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Taunter), the Duke of Portland, the Marquis and Mair.hioneas of Normanby, Earl and Countess Grey, Earl and Countess Stanhope, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, Lord and Lady John Manners, Lord and Lady Henniker. Lord St. Leonard' and the Hon. Mims Suedes, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alder, Lewd Rechsclale and the Hon. Mae Mitford, Lord a nd Lady Belper, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, ILP., Lord Lyveden, the Bishops of Ox ford, Rochester, Ely, and Winchester, the Deans of St. Paul's and Westminster. the Lord Chief Justice Era and Lady Erie. the Queen's Advocate and Lady Phillimere, the Attorney•Geneml, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowpra, many members of parliament, he. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT YORS.--As one of the city policemen was proceeding along his beat on Saturday morning, in Colliogate, York. his attention was attractedto the premises of Messrs. Clark, Bleardall, sad Co., in that street, large wholesale druggists, which he discovered to be on fire. This was about 2.15 a.m., and shortly after that time, so thoroughly had he spread the alarm, that • couple of engines were on the spot, and commenced play ing vigorously on the building. The large quantity of in flammable oils, spirits, and other materials contained in there warehouses, aided by a high wind, soon set the efforts of the firemen at nought, and • very extensive conflagration was N oe perceived would be the re suit. The flames spread with fearful rapidity, and began to threaten an adjoining block of premises belonging ton firm • carrying on the name business es Masora. Clark and CO. By-and.bye the flames reached u noble pile of buildings comprising the Wesleyec Centenary chapel and school-rooms. • The latter could not be saved, and were consequftili , gutted and their contents destroyed . The chapel, th.„„.. ' artreordinsuy exertions, is preserved. By five o'clock Use fire was at its height, but after that time it beams subdued, E and through the aid of the bystanders was quickly breught , into subjection, end at nine o clock the name noes* was • smouldering ruin. MAILS poz THE CHANNEL ISLANPS.-011 the lit klay, and theeoeforward until the sod of October, the , supplementary mails to and from Jersey and Guernsey, 1 rid Weymouth, will be forwarded three times • week.—Se e "British Postal Guide," page 164, paragraph 164. GREAT NORTHERN iloorrum, K.INO'S-CILOSE • Numbar of patients for the week ending April 26, 1,173 ; of which 461 ware new cases. r I , i