The Express. — London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

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THE Security from Violence Bill, better known to the general public as the Flogging Bill, is steadily making its way through Parliament by overwhelming majorities. Brought in by a private member, it was at once adopted by the House of Commons with more enthusiasm than that assembly has shown for any measure since it passed the Poaching Bill of last session. The House, so blast and incredulous on most subjects, warms up at the mention of the cat, and shows that on at least one point its faith is fall and strong. Honourable members, who on ordinary occasions are not given to much speaking, are jolt now proud and eager to show that in their studies of civilization they have not overlooked this important instrument, and that they can speak withnice exactness on ita various kinds, anddemoribe their respective properties and effects. One is an amateur of the army cat ; another extols the supe rior mordacity of that used in the navy ; but all agree that the lash is the palladium of our social state. Sir Geotras Geri discourses wisely as often as the Bill comes before the House, and signifies disapproval of its provisions on the part of the Government ; but he discourses in vain. The House meets his arguments with a dogged fanati cism, and should the Lords accept the measure in a similar temper it will soon become law. A spectacle so remarkable as the representative assembly of a highly civilized nation reverting to a barbarous punishment, and doing so Ma spirit of exultation, of course attracts the notice of neigh bouring communities; accordingly the Security from Violence Bill has been discussed in France, Ger- many, and other countries, with results very little to our advantage. For the last hundred years men have been in the habit of judging the character and development of nations very much according to the nature of the punishments to which they resort for the repression of crime. Thus no reproach has been more frequently brought against the Russians than their use of the knout. And now the principal Russian journal, being anti-English, is delighted to point to the fact that England, so proud of her social superiority, has taken up that implement which Russia has for ever cast away as a sign of a lower civilization, and is brandishing it with something like complacency. The promoters and advocates of this Bill have so exclusively set their immediate object before them, that they will probably not think the effect of their measure upon the estimation in which we are held abroad deserving of their regard. Still this is a con sideration that more sober Englishmen will not consent to lose sight of. Foreigners are, on the whole, impartial judges of our criminal legislation, and their opinion is not to be summarily devoted to contempt At all event' we ought to be very sure that, in the superior advantages of flogging as a mode of punishment, we gain something that can compensate for a decided loss of reputation. It is argued that we shall get this in the exemplary and deterrent effect of the nee of the lash. But without looking be yond the range of the criminal classes to consider the natural influence of the punishment on the community generally, we take leave to doubt whether society will not lose, even on the compu tation of crimes of violence prevented and crimes of violence increased. It is to be remembered that when you have flogged a man you have done your worst, short of hanging ; you have cut him off more completely than you could have done by any other means from innocent society, and knowingly devoted him to a life of hatred and despair. No other punishment takes the last re mains of humanity out of an offender so thoroughly as this, and if it were probable that flogging would come into general use the safety of society would imperatively require that provision should be made for the permanent safe keeping of convicts who had suffered that penalty. If with our costly police we are not safe now, it is pretty certain we should not be safe with flogged desperadoes roaming about, determined not to be flogged a second time. In all probability we should see a revival of more terrible forms of violence. The wisest among us have been accu s t ome d to _ ----- think and to teach that the value of laws,-usages, and institutions is not to be measured simply and exclusively by the completeness with which they attain their primary object, bat that they exercise a secondary, reflex, and edncational in fluence upon society at large, which, must always be taken into the account, and for the sake of which it may even become prudent to be satisfied with a lowerdegree of direct efficiency. Dr. AssoLD, in stating this consideration, has observed bywayof illustration, that a judicial constitution may secure a pure administration of justice and yet fail as an engine of national cultivation when it is reeled in the hands of a small body of professional men, i MILITART cANTßENFtirc7iFicitp.s. AS mob. Table Koh" epiONS. 10.,ite. NO C C=IIADIi FOE TIII OAK PLATE CRESTS. leery other size and Oen up to the an of MOO each, kept In stock. MAppru glopallte, SILVERSMITHS and COTTERS, zum...vr dl r, alto 67 and Bridge. KING WILLIAM BTEECT. London Pam price. charged at both batmen SI at their inanahtetory, QIGIKN's PIA= and 1:1111111T WOlll4. 914131111. D. 011811tVI THE ADDRESS. (PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED.) ALLEN'S PATENT POitTMANTEAus and TRAVELLING BAGS with square LADIES WARDROBE TRUNKS, DRESS% Th rTAGII, with dim mum DESPATCH nous, WRITING and DRAWING CAM, end SOO other artistes tor home or continental traveUlng. Illnstraasd wslalognes post tres. Abu Alma's Barrack Furniture Cot&logo* of IPortabla Bed deed!, Drain" Easy Chairs, Washhandetands, Canteens, ic., lot J. W. ALUM Manufacturer and Pateatae, 17, West strand. Load" W.C. SPECIAL NOTICL—TO GENTLEMEN. MR. MILES (Alfred Webb Miles), 73, Brook street. Hanover-square, ts prepared submit for public approval all the NEW TROUSERS PATTERNS for Spit and Summer wear, which will be found In peeler varkty and better than ever. The continual remark of gentle men to their friends la, Ally pay more than lea for your summer trousers? EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES removed from Road. attest In IS*. THE EXHIBITION OF ALUMINIUM AND ALUMINIUM NEON= Ofkfk(k SPECIMENS, illustrating the Appli lrir V cation rOrownentol and Useful) of New lute resting MI el we NOW ON VIEW at 3LkI*PIN En . I"HZEN NEW ROOMS, . /LEOZNTZTEIZT. Minded= by °art THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1863. like the old French Parliaments. While on the other hand it may communicate the judicial office Very widely, as by our system of juries, and thus may educate • very large portion of the nation, but yet may not succeed in obtain* the greatest certainty of just legal decisions. It ma lightly that some among us are prepared to think f this secondary and educational influence of laws. In that case, we may expect to hear a pro posal to abolish trial by jury. Before the restoration of the French Empire we had among us philosophers crying out against parlia ments, and calling for • man—for CAUSAR; and the fact that many material improvements have been rapidly accomplished in France by the power and will of NerorioN 111. has led some foolish English men to disparage our slower and more popular methods of administration. There will always be thoughtless men, impatient of direct mid immediate results, and men who can only see one thing at a time, ready to join them in the demand for one-sided innovations. But Englishmen at large are not so degenerate as to despise the foresight and large circumspection which appear in all our most peculiar institutions. Now, about the influence on the community at large of the employment of the lash there can be no two opinions. It either hardens the public mind, or it awakens • sympathy with the criminal, regret table iu itself, and most pernicious in its effects. This is a matter of experience. No doubt the promoters of this Bill think that in ad vocating it they are showing themselves the most formidable enemies of crime ; but they are not. It may be, as they allege, that • false sentiment has mingled with our treatment of criminals of late years. But that error is not to be corrected by rushing, to the opposite ex treme, and abandoning ourselves to vin dictive passion. The proper course is to find out the cause of the mischief, and remove it. Crimes of violence were numerous last winter, because our magistrates of all grades had fallen into a habit of imposing too lenient sen tences on offender', and because our superior prison managers allowed their convicts to return prematurely to society. The number of those crimes was rapidly and sensibly diminished on the application even of a partial remedy. This Flog ging Bill was, therefore, unnecessary. We have no fear that it will seriously affect the national character if passed, because it is morally certain that the strength of that character will be seen in a strong reaction against it as soon as the matter becomes practical. But the character and tendency of the Bill remain unaffected by this consideration, and are such as ought not to peas unnoticed or unrebuked. THE Ludgate Station and Junction Railways Bill was withdrawn yesterday. The London, Chatham, and Dover Company's Bill, containing a clause for an extension of time, still remains to be dealt with. The Corporation of the City of London will not be able to oppose this clauas in the House of Lords. 45be Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MAT 15. The Queen, ppiLnied by the Princess Helena, walked in the gaud this morning. Priam Arthr;, attended by Major Elphinatone, left the Castle. The Prism and Winans of Wales. ►tte►ded by the Cotuateas of Maninaleld, Ltentaaant-Genand Kacdlys, and Major Teesdale, sad Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, arrived at the Caudle at a quarter before ooe o'clock. _ The /time sad princess of Wales took leme of her Majesty and returned to London. The Earl Beauchamp bad an audience of the Queen, and kissed hands on reeeiviog the gold stick Si colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guard& Viscount Sydney and Sir George Grey had audiences of the Queen. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Priam' Helena, Prima. Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prises Leopold, left Windsor Pestle this evening at a quarter before 'even o'clock, for Belmoral. The suite in attendance consisted of the lady Augusta Brno., Lieutenant General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charlie Fitzroy, with Major Cowell. The Duchess of Athole meets her Majesty at Perth, and succeeds the Dowager Countess of Mount.E.Jgcumbe as Lady in Waiting. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting the council of big royal highness held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingba;pts, SR Jameerpark. There were present the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Warden of the Stennaries ; Sir William Dunker, Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Sir William John Alexander, Attanay•Generol - Colonel the Han. Sir Marisa Bsammont Phlppe, Receiver; General; Lientenust-Gaseal Hpellya, Compteoller of the Household of his royal Wilmer ; and Lord Portman. Mr. Batsman, the Seeretary, attended. The Prince and Princes of Wales, and the Prince and Princess Louie of Hems, visited the Daher of Inverness yesterday afternoon, at her residence at Kenungton-palacs. The Duke of CaMbeidge visited the Prince and Princess Louis of Beene, at Marlborough-bousn The Prince of Wales had a dinner party last evening at Marlborough-house. The company included the Prince of Orange, the Duke of Cambridge, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Baron Bentinck, the Netherlands minister ; the Duke and Duchene of Manchester, the Mar• quia and Marchioness of Adman, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Earl of Macclesfield, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Lieutenant-General Koollys, Baron de Pollandt, and Colonel Bosch, in waiting on the Prises el Orange ; the Hon. James Macdonald, in waiting on the Duke of Cambridge ; the lady in waiting to the Princess Louis of Hesse, Captain Wester yeller, and Mr. Becker. The tend of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance in an ante-room, and played during dinner. The Queen's private band, under the direction of Mr. An• denim, attended in the drawing-room in the evening. A deputation from the baud of directors of the Nest Africa Company (Limited) had saints:view with Earl Bur sell at the Foreignofce yesterday. Sir James Elphinstone, Bart., M.P., and Mr. Laird, M.P., , had an interview with the President of the Board of Trade yesterday on the subjects( anchors and chain Gabfest HER MAJESTY'S DBAW 1N0,800M.-(THIS DA Y. ) Her Royal Highness the Princes. of Wales held a drawing-rem at St. Jimmie Palace, by command of her Xajetty. The drawing-room was aumwrovely attended. We are glad to announce that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have graciously accorded their patronage to Mr. Lumley, on the occasion of his bene fi t performances. _ _ _ Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge end the Primer Mary honoured Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Beeneneen with their compsey at dinner, last evening. at their residence in Grosvenor-place. The following had the lumeer el meeting the illustrious visitors : —His Excellency the Austrian Ambuesdar and the Coun tess Apponyi, the Duke et Newcastle. Maria Idarchloseee of Aikebury, the Earl and Cowden Delaware, the Feel of Ihrtowel, the Earl of Elerftes, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Hamilton, and Yr. and Imely Charlotte Roma. the Du chess of Cambridge and the Primness Mary afterwards ho- noured the bell given by Lady Mazy Nisbet Hamilton, in Cheshire-place, with their meson.. The Countess De Grey and Ripon had an mem- Mr last misfit at the family minion in Carltoo-gardens. We (Times) are authorised to state that the Queen has bees pleased to signify her Intentioa to wafer the honour of knighthood upon Mr. Francis Sandford, 'Secretary to her Majesty's Commindoners for the Exhibi - Lion of 1862. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (sztase's :ors.) AMERICA. (Per Persia.) THE FIGHTING IN VIRGINIA. NEW YORK, MAT 5, !ammo. Advices have been received from the army of the Potomac up to Sunday night. Thel state that General Lee threw the bulk of his army against Hooker's right at Chancellorsville on Saturday, and routed one corps of Hooker's army. The battle was renewed on the following day, and though not absolutely decisive, is said to have resulted favourably to General Hooker. The left of Hooker's army captured the heights in the rear of Fredericksburg on Sunday, and Lee's forces at that point joined Lee at Chancellorsville. General Lee's army is now between the column of Hooker's army at Chancellorsville, said to number 100,000 men, and the column which cap. tured the heights in the rear of Fredericksburg, said to number 20,000 men. The two columns are separated by an interval of five miles. The Federal force is reported to have cut the railroad in the rear of Lee's army. The Confederates have a force at Warrenton Junction, in the rear of the Federal army, and a severe fight has occurred there in which the Con federates were routed. Active skirmishing continues around Suffolk, and General Dioz has proceeded there to conduct an attack on Richmond from the northward. Accounts are too vague to estimate accurately either General Hooker's or General Lee's loom ; but they are probably both large. NEW YORK, MAT 5, Evisnra. General Grant is moving on Natchez, Ma- sissippi. ♦ naval engagement is reported to have taken plaoe at Grand Gulf, Mississippi. The Confederates, under Marmaduke, have crossed Whitewater river and escaped out of Missouri, burning the bridge behind them. More Copperhead riots have occurred in Indiana. Mr. Redgate, one of the owners of the cargo of the Peterhoff, has applied to the court for permis -1 Rion to testify on his own account. The court refused the application on the ground that Mr. Redgate, being a citizen of Texas at the time of the secession, must be regarded as an alien enemy. The examination of the cargo continues. The investigation into the alleged frauds com mitted in prise cases is to be conducted with dosed doors. It is reported that the privateer schooner Retri bution has been captured by the Federal steamer Alabama off San Domingo. Tha Federal sloop of war Tridle (1) has been burnt off Pensacola. Navigation has been opened at Montreal and Quebec. Mr. Vallandigham, ex-member of Congress, from Ohio, has been arrested at his residence in Dayton by a detachment of soldiers, who battered down the doors of his house to reach his room. His friends endeavoured to rescue him, but he was carried prisoner to Cincinnatti. General Burnside is said to have ordered his arrest for making dis loyal speeches in Ohio. The Etna has arrived out. NEW YORK, MAT 6, Motazzo. Advioes from General Hooker reach to Monday night. General Lee renewed bis assault on Sun day against General Hooker at Chancellorsville, and drove Hooker back at some points, but was finally beaten off. General Hooker then contracted his lines, and awaited Lee's attack on Mon day. The result of Monday's battle is not known, but heavy reinforcements are reported to have arrived for General Lee previous to the l engagement, rendering it probable that General Stoneman had not cut the railroad communication to Richmond. Nothing positive has been beard from General Stoneman since his raid in General Lee's rear, and it is not known what success he met with. Eight hundred prisoners have arrived at Wash ington. The accounts are still too confused to give an accurate estimate of the losses on either side, but they must be very large. The government allowed no information to be telegraphed. It is reported that General Banks has occupied Alexandria at the head of the Red River. The Federals crossed the Nansemond River at Suffolk, and again four miles below that place. They encountered the Confederates, and are rumoured to have captured eight guns. It is supposed that a large number of Confede rates left the neighbourhood of Suffolk to join General Len General Grant has landed a large force below Vicksburg, on the Mississippi shore, and General Sherman has landed up the Yazoo River, where he made his last attack. It is supposed that Generals Grant and Sherman will now make a combined attack on Vicksburg. The Federal attack on Grand Gulf failed. The Federal iron-clads were to cross Charleston Bar on the 4th inst. The mob in Dayton, Ohio, cut the telegraph wires, set the Journal office on fire, and committed other disturbances. The Persia takes out 229 passengers and 215,427 dollars in specie. NEW YORK, MAT 4, Evramo. The Federal are making a combined movement to cut all the Southern railroad communication with Vicksburg. General Banks has occupied Opelousas and Washington, Lousiana ; and continues to meet with success. The New Orleans papers think that General Banks has dealt the heaviest blow yet against Vicksburg, as, with Farragut at the mouth of the Red River, and a powerful Federal army in Western Virginia, the great highway to Texas is closed. The Oonfederatee are reported to have retired from Baltimore, Ohio. The damage done to the railroad had been re paired. Mr. Chase has made a speech, in Boston, express ing the opinion that the war was near its termination. The steamer General Buckner has arrived at Havannah from Mobile. Flour dull. Wheat heavy. Corn inactive. Pro visions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady. Molanees upon the he that Mr. dihron found out the fact ; before he weld widish himself be had received 0111 or two spear wounds about the head, sad be now lies dangerously M at Tien-tain, having been for some days insensible. The English troops at Taku have been detained by order of Sir F. Bruce. nom Shanghai we learn that renewed dissatis faction is felt among the merchants, owing to the imposition of taxes on goods removed by native pur chasers. Tax-gatherers are posted at the doors of the different merchants' premises, and a duty is levied upon each bale of goods removed by Chinese dealers. COILIELECIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YOWL, MAT 5, ETzstrpo. Money abundant. Gold, 514 per cent. premium. Exchange on London : Bankers' bills, 164. Stocks, large speculative sales. New York Central', 1191; Illinois, 94 ; Erie, 861 ; Five per Cent. United states B on di, gli I Six per Cent. ditto, 1064. Cotton market heavy ; Middling Upland, 66. JAPAN. By the last advioes from Japan (says the Overland Friend of China, April 1) no intelligence reaches us regarding Admiral Kuper and the vessels under his command ; it is said that he intends to make a demonstration at Osaka. At Yokohama everything was quiet, no further signs of hostility having been made. AUSTRALIA. VICTORIA. The Melbourne Herald of March 25 says that the session of the Victorian Legislature Dila year has been one of the most laborious experienced, yet the least fruitful of practical results. "The ministry still command a decisive majority in both houses, and they are steadily sustained by the in telligent opinion of the country ; but the existence of a forlorn hope of obstructive.' in the assembly has unfortunately bad the effect of causing the most vexatious and injurious delay of the public business. If we say that the Electoral Bill has been read a third time in the Assembly, and been dispatched to the Upper House, we shall have stated the nett result of the month's 'legislation.'" During the month of February 2,960 persons arrived at Melbourne, and 5,712 took their departure, leaving a balance against the colony of 2,752 souls. Of the arrivals, 1,799 were adult males, 822 adult females, 181 male, and 158 female children. Of the departure., 4,701 were adult males, 598 adult females, 215 male and 198 female children. About four-fifths of the departures were for New Zealand. The news from the gold fields is good. A stern determination is expressed by the Austra lian colonies to resist the revival of transportation to these shores. In order to give the Victorian protest all the emphasis of a national declaration, the Chief Secretary has drawn up the following address to her Majeety : May It please wee Majosty,—We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the members of the legislative Anew bly of Victoria, in psrliamant assembled, beg leave to appear* ynor Majesty with renewed asmranose of our loyalty and affection. We desire to rake known to your Majesty that we have learned with the utannet alarm that the subject of transportation to the Australian oolonita has epee more engaged the attention of the imperial govern swat. That in the discharge of our solaria duty to this cowry in its highest interests we feel bound to emphs, tray protest against the revival or continuance of trans portation to any portion of the Australian continent or ad. joining settlement.. That we look back with horror to the atrocious crime perpetrated after the discovery of the gold fields by a host of criminal who suddenly appeared amongst our community from adjacent penal colonies, and the re membrance of the state of society engendered by their pre. sena is as yet too vivid to permit of our submitting to the resumption of transportation to any part of Australia without the prompt expression of our firm determination to offer all the resistance in oar power to so temble • calamity. That this country is now only beginning to rasp the advan. tyre of the vast expenditure she has incurred, and the stringent laws she has pealed to arrest the career of these criminals, and it would be dis heartening beyond eadur•uce were she spin forced to combat the same dangers from which she has been rescued at such great nos►, • condition imposed upon her by her proximity to those settlements where British criminals had been sent. That this house, by its generous and successful efforts in the canoe of Australian exploration, having opened up • vest territory for the highest purposes Of civilisation, can scarcely conceive that your Majesty's go vernment would render, by the establishment of penal set tlements, these glorious discoveries the means of inflicting upon • free people • deadly moral injury. That while the gold fields of this colony present such powerful at tractions, it is immaterial whether convicts be landed in Victoria or on the next remote shore of this continent, as no means, even honestly conceived and strictly carried out, can succeed in confining them within the limits of any settlement to which they may be deported. Thus trans portation to any portion of Australia, or to any of the ad joining settlements, would practically be transportation to Victoria, and would thus necessarily be injurious to the moral welfare of her people, increase their burdens, impede free immigration, provoke exceptional legislation, and teed to alienate the affections of her inhabitants from the mother country. We therefore pray your Majesty will be graciously pleased to refuse your royal sanction to any'propceal for the coatinuanoe or revival of transportation to any portion of your Majesty's Australian posseanous. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The advice. from Adelaide extend to March 26. His excellency the governor has recently visited the Echunga gold-fields, in company with Mr. Har graves, the original discoverer of gold in Australia. The latter will remain for some little time in the colony to examine the various localities in which gold is likely to be found. Parliament met on February 27, and Mr. Hawker had been re-elected Speaker. Both houses bad ad journed till after Easter. Messrs. Blyth, Ayres, and Glyde are at present in Melbourne, as representatives of South Austra lia at the interoolonial conference. Parliament, in addition to the 2,000/. to which Mr. Stuart is entitled for having craned the conti nent, has voted mune ranging from 5001. to 1001. to the members of Lie party. Major Blyth, commanding the detachment of the 40th Regiment in Adelaide, has received orders to join head-quarters in New Zealand. He will be relieved by Brevet-Major Bowdler. The total value of cereal exports from the begin ning of the year to March 14 had been 171,7151. 14a. Bd. The general exports to March 21 have valued 598,4771., and the total imports 421,3411. ; whilst the customs receipts for the eleven weeks ended March 14 have been 28,0701. 14a. ld., and the land sales receipts from Jan. 1 to March 19, 23,0601. The Opinions of Turin publishes • kind of hand bill printed at Rome, and marked No. 12, which is distri buted to those who enrol themselves as brigands is the service of Francis H. of Naples. It rens as follows "12. A Glorious Mystery : the Ascension of Jesus. The (mild the mystery is the desire of obtaining Paradise. Up, then, 0 faithful soul! A few more combats, a few more sacrifices and privations, and the Crown in thine ! Lord Jesus, may the protection of Thy divine heart cover oar Supreme Paster I" LORD LIWNOX AND TEM ITALIAN PREM.—In the Howe of Commas yesterday week, Lord H. Leaner complained that the liberty of the prams in Italy was • mare mockery, and, to prove it, he ventured on the folk lowing assertion :—"The Pcrsecersaze of Milan, coo of the Mt }carnal. M Italy, the organ of the old Milan aris tocracy, was seined on the 27th of last mouth, and what did the house suppose it was for ? Surely, the new Lord of the Admiralty, the hon. member for Halifax (Mr. Stansfeld) would feel • throe of nipathy (eheers and laughter) whoa he karst that the Perseceranm met with an untimely fate because it re. pal:dished in one of its °Glavin@ extras* from documents written and signed by the present Minister for For esa w Affairs in the Italian government. (Hear, bear.) On this ground one of the meet respectable newspaper' in Italy was seised, and not allowed to circulate on that day. (Hem, hear. The Perseceranza come, out with a flat dwell that its numbs," were seised either on the particular day meatiseed by the noble lord, or cm any other day *Moe its Grit spasm°, is 1860. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BERLIN, if ar Letters received here from Warsaw state that, on the 10th inst., the revolutionary town captain, in order to prevent the emigration of despondent citi zens, issued a proclamation forbidding any person to leave Poland without a passport from the national government. _ _ DANTZIO, ILcr 15. The °sine Zeitung of to-day lays :—" The pro vincial revolutionary committee for Lithuania has published a reply to the imperial ukase, granting an amnesty, which says :—` As the object of the insurrection is not to obtain conoessions from the Emperor, but to establish the independence of the whole of Poland within the frontier which existed before its partition, the national struggle shall con tinue until the last Muscovite soldier has been driven from these Polish provinces, or till the last Polish army has ceased to fight.'„ OUTBREAK OF AN INSURRECTION IN VOLHYMNIA. CRACOW, MAT 16, Emma. Between the Bth and 10th inst. an insurrection broke out at five different points of Volhymnia. The insurgents confined (internirt) in Galicia have all refused to avail themselves of the amnesty, in spite of the eolicitatious of the Russian agents. THE POLISH QUESTION. OONSTANI'LNOPLE, MAT 15. K de Mouetier, the French Ambaasador, has invited the Porte to co-operate with the other powers in diplomatic action at St. Petersburg in favour of Poland. The Porte has, however, refused, on the ground that Turkey was not a party to the treaties of 1815. SPAIN. NEW MINISTRY FOR THE COLONIES. MADRID, MAI 15. A royal decree has been issued, creating& new ministry for the colonies. ITALY. A BOURBON EXPEDITION. TURIN, HAT IR The Opinions of today says :—" The Italian government recently received information that • Bourbon expedition, under the command of Bourbon ex-officers, sent from Rome, was being organised on the Albanian coast for the purpose of conducting a number of Albanian brigands into the province of Puglia. "In consequence of this information the Italian government, after having despatched several men of-War to cruise off the Albanian coast, requested the Porte to arrest the conspirators. "Upon &domiciliary visit being =West the house of the Austrian Consul at Valona a quantity of arms and ammunition was discovered and seized. "Three individuals at the Austrian Consulate were arrested." THE BANK OF FRANCE. PAM& MAT I& The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the April account : INcar.Lsz. Caah in hand millions. Treasury balance Current accounts Advances DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yetdue Q „ Bank notes ll „ M. Vnitry, precident of one of the eectiona of the Council of State, has been appointed Governor of the Bank of France. INDIA. On the 15th ult. the Viceroy of India and COM mender-in-Chief were wending their way toward the Himalayas, visiting all the large stations en route. They were at limbslla the end of March, where Lord Elgin held a durbar which was numerously attended by native princes and chiefs, whom he addressed in a speech said to have been the happiest effort of that kind made by him during his viceregal progress. His excellency and Sir Hugh ROW will, it is reported, silt Sanawar and the other hill sanitaria lying adjacent to their line of march, before going to Simla. The frontier disturbances so long prevalent on the north-west frontier of Bengal are subsiding fast. We hear but little about them now. The Madras A thenaunt, of Aprills, says : The finances, as mentioned in our last overland paper, Sourish beyond what even the most sanguine calculators reckoned on, and a late government return shows that the currency notes are forcing their way more and more into circulation. On the ZiOth of April, 1862, there were four crores and forty laths of them in use, thirty of which belonged to this presidency. Since that date, the last-mentioned amount has been more than doubled. We are all now on the tiptoe of expectation to learn the nature of Sir Charles Trevelysn's budget, nothing certain about which has been suffered to creep out. It is generally believed, however, that several millions of the Dash balances will be appropriated to the paying off of debentures shortly falling due. Ru-nour has spoken of other reductions of the Indian debt. and a good deal of speculation in government paper was the result, but the best informed parties at Calcutta do not appear to credit that story ; which has, however, led the native community to run the Four per Cents. up to par, or even a shade above it. Sir Charles is understood to be desirous of interfering with the present currency arrange ments in a way which will be very prejudicial to the inte rests of the three presidency hanks, and we fear to those of the public likewise, if the crotchetty designs imputed to him are really entertained. CHINA. Hong-Kong papers of April 1 state that the town of Shaouhsing, about 90 miles from Niogpo, was being besieged by a Franoo-Chinese contingent, the same which had been twice repulsed under Generals Lebrethon and Tarclif, both of whom were successively killed. The latter has been succeeded by a General D'Argraibelle, and the rebels have evacuated the city, evidently wearied out by the determination of the att►cking force. The siege lasted exactly • month. An advance was then made upon Seaou-san, which is also re ported to be evacuated by the rebels, who are falling back upon Hang-chow. There has been no more fighting. The rebels walked out of th e se places and the Franco-Chinese forces walked in. From Pekin there is no intelligence ; but from Tien-twin the news is again discouraging. The Nyen fei rebels have appeared in the neighbourhood, and an encounter with them has resulted in a serious accident to Acting-Consul Gibson. It appears that, on teaming of tae approach of those hordes of marauders, Mr. Gibson got the dincipliaod Minas, up from Taku where there are about 2.000 under arum With a detachment of 700 he proceeded spinet the Myos in, and was mot by a bead of thew people, whom be ordered his mon to charm be himself liar, them oa. Only about 70 obeyed, sad it was act 'Mil be was ekes THE "DEBBY" AND ITS PROPHETS. •-•-• By the returns of the horses under orders from the various stabler for Epsom, it would mem (says Ede. Life) that the held for the Derby will be nude up som e . what se follows: Trainer. Jockey. Lord CUMen E. Parr 0 Fordham Macaroni J (kidding Chalon.. tiaccharosoner ....Chmtnell A Edwards Oink. W. Day .1 Adams Banger W. Closter I floater Tem Fool Stanton King of the Vale.... Hayboe M i tall National Guard ....Watson I Snowden Boa War T Jeonhtp Watkins Fanank Goodwin Custance (Maths Fled J Scott E. Sharp Early Puri I Scott W. Boyce Light Bob T Dawson Alderat Donnybrook Watson il Rogers Or Idea ?lodge I Osborne I Osborne Blue Mantle Harkok J Daley 'Prolamin Wadlow Santander T Oliver Safeguard T Mbar *Tajo T Taylor 'Overdone Tram Drew Avondale May J Mann Coultas Prinks Midair, •Flibustier T Janalap Pratt King of Utopia ....Lye Tambour Mayor...J. Dawson. •Jarnicoton T Jawing; - Baldwin IL Gager . r 1 Adams 'Avower J Dawson - 'Moonstone Woolcot -- • Doubtful starters. .Covey .Cowley WeUs Should this. all come to the post tlas field would be eon classed to be a good average one, but although the French trio have each bees backed for a sulicient sum to warrant a probability of their being at the poet, still a ample of nomi nations is almost as much as can be expected wider existing Bea's Life names Lord Clifden as the wiener of the Derby, and Lady Auguste of the Oaks. The Ere places the that three el the Derby u follows : s i ocharereeier, 1 ; Lord adds", 2 ; King of the tale, 3 ; and of the Oaks—Old Orange Girl, 1; Lady Augusta, 2; Mir Armstrong, 3. The Field believes that its readers may see the sinner of the Derby is Macaroni, while next to him will be Lord Clifden and Gillis. As to proosedinga of Friday, ledy Auguste. is "the most promising OW winner that has appeared CM the paper for some yam." Th. &admit Times admits that it argues some temerity to leave out from one's calculation two prominent termites as Lord Clifden and Macaroni for the Derby, but "we mast take our chance, and place the first three thus : Baccbarometer, 1; The Gillis, 2 ; King of the Vale, 3," For the OW : Miss Armstrong, 1; Old Orange Girl, 2; Flying Fish, 3 ; regarding Fantail as the best outsider. The Rev. William Oke Cleave, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Jeans College, Cambridge, ham been elected Prin. eipal of Victoria College, Jersey. In the Rouse of Commons, on the 29th inst., Viscount Rainham wOl move, that, "in the opinion of this house, Great Britain, by having been a party to the Treaty of Vienna, assisted in placing a portion of ancient Poised in subjection to Russia, under stipulations favourable to Poland, which Ws been grossly and systematically vio- lated by Ramis, who ham thereby forfeited all claim tinder the treaty to that country." The result of the concert given by Madame Lind- Goldschmidt at St. James's Hall last week, for the beast& of the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney, is a ma. tribution of 5261. to the funds of that charity. Last evening kiendelssohn's music to the Athalie of Racine wee gives at Exeter Hall, with the ewes artists who sang it recently at theerrital Palace, sanely, Madras Balaton-Dolby, Mies Martin, and ilatllle. rarely; bat with Mr. Henry Nicholls, hutted of Mr. Phelps, rear of the illustrative verses. Maclaine Puzzi gave her annual matin& musicale palm*, at the Hanorer•eyuare Rooms, to a niunerona and fashionable audience. The programme onwieted thirdly of extracts from the repertory of the Italian Opera. The Marchioness of Gaetani (Piooolomini) left Florence on the Ilth inst., and is expected in Load= to-day (Saturday). Dr. Bennett's overturn, " Paradise and the Peri," composed for het year's Jubilee Concert of the Philharmonic Society, is to be repeated at the concert of Monday next. The concert is to De honoured with the presence of the Prince and PASO= of Wales, and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse. Mdlle. Miens is to sing, this being the only occasion on which she ma appear at a concert during the present season. "The delay attending the production of the new comedy at the Haymarket," says the Press. " is not to be attributed to either authoress or manager, but rather to one of those contretemps to which the ruler of the destinies of a theatre is constantly exposed in the distribution of parts. In this instance so many proofs of waywardness have been evinced by an actress that it really has become • question whether the old play of Know Your Olen Mind would not be • more imitable entertainment than the sew comedy by Lady Gifford. " The Pugin Memorial Committee having raised a food of 1,030/. Lave resolved to place it at the disposal of the hietitoto of British Architect., in trust, for the establishment of a Student's Travelling Fluid, under certain conditions. The president and council of the Pharmaceutical Society bare issued cards for a convenatioa party, on Taw day evening next, in Bloomsbury-square. Commander Thomas E. Symonds will on Monday evening deliver, at the United Service Institution, a lee. ture on the use of ,broadside guns, chiefly bearing on their value in armour-clad ships. Messrs. Longman and Co. have in the press a new volume of Bishop Oolenao's "The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined," containing the Book of Den. terouoray. It ie to appear in June. Accounts from Hereford represent the suspension of payment of the Old Bank in that town as attended with the iIiCODIOIIIOI2CO and the distressing circumstances which always accompany an incident of this kind. The failure I said to be owing to the heavy defalcations of a clerk who had been twenty years in the bank. A report from Liverpool very confidently asserts that a Meter ship of the Alabama will sail from the Clyde ow Howdy. The Ramsay, an iron tank-ship, built for the Petroleum Trailing Compsay, ailed from Liverpool for New York yesterday. This vassal will carry about 400 tow of petroleum in tanks, and an equal quantity in barrels, and the system is so much approved by the underwriters that issuances an be effected on her at less than half the usual rates. It is said that " Deerfoot" has at last quitted our shores, carrying with him upwards of a thousaud poauds as the fruit of his running labours. In the Federal array there are 74 major-geuer.l l 6, whose pay is 5,080 dole. each per annum. A major-geveral is allowed three aides-de-camp, shah pay is 1,:',/du dolt. each. There are 284 brigadier-generals, whose pay is 4,000 dole. each per annum. Every brigadier-govern has two aides Ale-camp ; their pay is 1,500 dole each.—line lurk Tribune. It is estimated that there are 30 tone of American diver accumulated in Toronto, Hamilton, mod Loridon Canada. The following placard is hung up in the Cicadae merchants' stores--viz, American silver takes at 5 per rent discount—Canadian paper. WRIST AM. CMGSS.—Yet misguided people are found, even in these days, to set up Whist signiori her ass rival. Eut there is no use attempting it. Whist caned bear the comparison. On one or two points she may, Per" haps, claim equality ;on the rest she is nowhere. She has Nothing like the inexhaustible resources of chess, or the chances she gives of escape by subtlety and desperate Ter tore. She has nothing like her unmeasured depth, or the infinite variety of her combinations. She has nothing likebee delicate Aarhus off of acientilic certainty into chance—for chance doss enter as an element into chess, though it is Del generally thought so. Then what are the " antecedents" of Whitt! Where is tho history of her famous battle*, bee tournaments, her line of sovereigns or roll of warriors Wss she ever named in China, or sung by Homer, or honoured in sunny Ithaca, or painted in Egyptian tombs, or graved oe sternal pyramids? We should be loth to make insioaations *bout character, especially having figured her grimiest!' ally as a lady. But her kith ea kin, what can be nod for them, an d for her belongings generally ? Does not bet very name spontsneouely call up visions of taverns, Ps' light, swindling, suicide, vinegsr.faosd dowagers, end back tatiog ? Is there any grave or reverend 'rigor who would chives to be seen in her company in daylight' Rs& Cairn, as all men know, is a spirit of another sort. DLe Outer* she is of a " holy c ld and still conversation." Re' tirerneat and the mute silence are the things she loves ; but she can came out is public, and not ashamed to be we° there neither; and kings era not ashamed to be . sees by her side. If she doer. cousum e the midnight o il—!s eerily she does—yet her lamp is a sober lamp, a rises lamp, fsmiliar with books, and busts, and library Dr" " 11 _, coffee ; the sort of lamp men burn when waking to watch the Bear or unsphere the spirit of PlataColloi d, Matiazira ter May.